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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 3736704" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>The cargo vans were not supposed to get &#039;too small&#039; because routes weren&#039;t supposed to get so big. I was in the first wave of HD terminals, day one of HD and was promised small packages, and the ability to service only one zip code if I wanted, and work part time as long as my zip was covered. The person doing the recruitment meeting was very knowledgable and was a terminal manager for a national trucking firm before fedex talked him into leaving for HD. HD started accepting ANYTHING including packages that were way bigger than promised. And fedex quickly found that the daily van allowance was way too high to allow people to leave without at least 8-9 hours of work, and dropped the &#039;part-time&#039; promise that they had used. HD was advertised as the perfect part-time job for home makers&nbsp; and retirees in the recruitment ad. The ability to &#039;set your own hours was NEVER really honest because HD allowed people to set &#039;appointments&#039; as late as 8 pm, and you couldn&#039;t start late even if you had a light load and 8 pm appointment deliveries because the managers were required to &#039;clear&#039; the manifest by 10 am(?).SO you had to be there but I guess could wait and start delivering later if you wanted. But they also required the original 13 drivers to cover much more than contracted, saying that we (independent contractors) needed to be &#039;team&#039; players and help out until volume grow, and of course they wanted to cover the area with as few drivers as possible, which led me to driving regularly as much as 400 miles and working from 8 am until 11 pm on a regular basis for almost 2 years. Yes, I was screwed by believing the promises.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 3736704, member: 60252"] The cargo vans were not supposed to get 'too small' because routes weren't supposed to get so big. I was in the first wave of HD terminals, day one of HD and was promised small packages, and the ability to service only one zip code if I wanted, and work part time as long as my zip was covered. The person doing the recruitment meeting was very knowledgable and was a terminal manager for a national trucking firm before fedex talked him into leaving for HD. HD started accepting ANYTHING including packages that were way bigger than promised. And fedex quickly found that the daily van allowance was way too high to allow people to leave without at least 8-9 hours of work, and dropped the 'part-time' promise that they had used. HD was advertised as the perfect part-time job for home makers and retirees in the recruitment ad. The ability to 'set your own hours was NEVER really honest because HD allowed people to set 'appointments' as late as 8 pm, and you couldn't start late even if you had a light load and 8 pm appointment deliveries because the managers were required to 'clear' the manifest by 10 am(?).SO you had to be there but I guess could wait and start delivering later if you wanted. But they also required the original 13 drivers to cover much more than contracted, saying that we (independent contractors) needed to be 'team' players and help out until volume grow, and of course they wanted to cover the area with as few drivers as possible, which led me to driving regularly as much as 400 miles and working from 8 am until 11 pm on a regular basis for almost 2 years. Yes, I was screwed by believing the promises. [/QUOTE]

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