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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 1889183" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>Fedex is actually starting to require that you don't drive by requiring that all drivers be paid as employees. Organizing your like as a corporation isn't going to make your life simpler. Fedex can demand as many hours as they want out of you. You might be able to flex stops or pickups to another driver, but that just shows fedex that you can take even more stops or pickups because you show them that you can get it done. Even if you are only required to have one route, trying to hire and keep a good replacement driver can be difficult. What do you think it will take to hire, train, and keep 5 or more good drivers? Is that going to give you more or less time with your family?? And what about just the bookkeeping and payroll for 5 or more drivers? Is that going to give you more or less time with the family?? And around the Christmas holidays, do you think you will have more time to spend with loved ones??? Do you really think that with 5 routes, that you can take a two week vacation with your kids in the summertime????</p><p></p><p> If family really comes first, get a real job, with security, and regular hours when you know you can go to parent-teacher conferences, soccer games, take vacations, where you know you can get enough sleep to be the best parent you can be. If you haven't heard of the lawsuits flying all around the fedex ground model, then you have a lot of catching up to do. </p><p></p><p>The fedex contract itself gives fedex the right to cancel the contract anytime THEY decide. Fedex has put people on these forums to sell others on the 'contract' model while no one pays those who disagree with fedex. Now with more court rulings all over the country against companies like Uber and even McDonalds franchisees, the future is more unsettled, not less unsettled as some of fedex's supporters post.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 1889183, member: 60252"] Fedex is actually starting to require that you don't drive by requiring that all drivers be paid as employees. Organizing your like as a corporation isn't going to make your life simpler. Fedex can demand as many hours as they want out of you. You might be able to flex stops or pickups to another driver, but that just shows fedex that you can take even more stops or pickups because you show them that you can get it done. Even if you are only required to have one route, trying to hire and keep a good replacement driver can be difficult. What do you think it will take to hire, train, and keep 5 or more good drivers? Is that going to give you more or less time with your family?? And what about just the bookkeeping and payroll for 5 or more drivers? Is that going to give you more or less time with the family?? And around the Christmas holidays, do you think you will have more time to spend with loved ones??? Do you really think that with 5 routes, that you can take a two week vacation with your kids in the summertime???? If family really comes first, get a real job, with security, and regular hours when you know you can go to parent-teacher conferences, soccer games, take vacations, where you know you can get enough sleep to be the best parent you can be. If you haven't heard of the lawsuits flying all around the fedex ground model, then you have a lot of catching up to do. The fedex contract itself gives fedex the right to cancel the contract anytime THEY decide. Fedex has put people on these forums to sell others on the 'contract' model while no one pays those who disagree with fedex. Now with more court rulings all over the country against companies like Uber and even McDonalds franchisees, the future is more unsettled, not less unsettled as some of fedex's supporters post. [/QUOTE]
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