Some people have flights, rental cars and about $75 a day in meals. Their salary plus trainers salaries. All the associated expenses with HR and all the salaries of people that are involved from application to graduation of courier class. I don't have an exact figure, but it has to be way up there. Then you have newhires that wash out and quit. If you have a senior courier, you know what you have. You hire a guy, it is a crap shoot.
I believe you are enrolled in the 401k the day you start and have to opt out.
6 dd, and 12 in courier class when i went thru it
Counting the instructor, how do you get 7 people in a 700 for the on road portion. The training van we used to borrow for peak only had room for the instructor and 3 students.
You may be right to a point. It's not a situation where FedEx will try to make do with less people and force them to work 14+hrs a day. But rather when shorthanded be able to cover the work without incurring penalties from DOT. But also with the new emphasis on a lower BMI to prevent sleep apnea FedEx could ill afford to have operations constantly disrupted by having experienced couriers taken offline by failing physicals. So they got an exemption for drivers operating vehicles under 10000 lbs.
Driving instructors can have baby's and that's where the 1 for our district is. No idea why they went to Denver but that is where they went.
So we are putting older couriers out to pasture and hiring new couriers.
It's not for the 14 hours. It's for 7 days per week to cover holidays and energencies.
Or maybe it's for ALL those reasons.
Just being old isn't going to cause someone to fail a physical. There are specific conditions that would preclude someone from getting their medical cards. But by no means are those conditions exclusive or common to age only. They are also finding out that as the economy improves, the pool for young people that can pass a background, drug test, and clean driving record, gets smaller and smaller.
And finding people that want to work period.
There's no 'exemption' made... it's been that you need a DOT card if you are 10k+. It's always been like that. There was a reason why most auto makers had their commercial vans at 9990 gvw. What I don't get is Grandpa who's on 8 different medicines and a heart stint can still drive his 20k+gvwr motorhome without any physical.
Why was it a pain in the ass to get into UPS way back when? It was because once you got in, you were well taken care of. Now, for both UPS and us, it's no longer the case. Also, with technology nowadays, any bad employer behavior are held in memory for life vs just the locality where the transgression happened. Kids nowadays don't want to live thru what their parents have lived thru... work at the same job for 20 years and have the plant/office shutdown/get laid off because they outsourced to India or China. Plus they are smart enough to see thru the BS the CEOs spout "OH WE R SO BROKE WE CANT GIVE YOU A RAISE (but the board and I got one, hehehehe suckers)"
training 900. two seats each side, big bench in back.
I guess you haven't seen the training 700/900's ours sat about 10 probably...(lay out below)
I never saw those.. I'm just a lowly non-dot driver. That sounds sweet. Hey, imagine how fast you'd be with 7 runners, le oldfart
Class we went through had 9 couriers in the training truck. Then the recession hit and we actually were using it as a truck in the station.
When they started the sleep apnea thing at our doc in the box near the station, they started to have us go to another doc in the box a city away. We all started to go back to the original after a year or so. I imagine someone called the station and senior and rep from the original wanted the business back. Never heard of the sleep apnea thing ever again.
