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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 2101691" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>Why can't you hire subcontractors to deliver packages for you??? Why MUST you treat your drivers as employees???? </p><p></p><p>You know why- it's because fedex wants to control every step of the delivery process- making you an employee, no matter how many routes you manage for them. All you are is a manager who takes on any risk fedex can get you to fall for. You can't expand past their artificial limits, you don't have 'unlimited' potential. Fedex STRICTLY limits what you can and can't do. </p><p></p><p>How come you can't deliver appliances for Sears in the same truck that you use for fedex at the same time???? Is it because you can choose what goes in your vehicle????</p><p></p><p>All the control makes you an employee, no matter that it hasn't yet been litigated. Fedex can call you an ISP, and you can pretend that you believe it. But when they control what you can put in YOUR vehicle, who can drive YOUR vehicle, and tell you where to be and when to be there in your own vehicle, you are not making your own decisions. Why can't you buy an old Geo metro and put all your rural deliveries in it to save on fuel, or hire someone with a moped to drop off a few packages for you?</p><p></p><p>You don't run the service the way you want if you were truly independent- you run it the way they want you to run it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 2101691, member: 60252"] Why can't you hire subcontractors to deliver packages for you??? Why MUST you treat your drivers as employees???? You know why- it's because fedex wants to control every step of the delivery process- making you an employee, no matter how many routes you manage for them. All you are is a manager who takes on any risk fedex can get you to fall for. You can't expand past their artificial limits, you don't have 'unlimited' potential. Fedex STRICTLY limits what you can and can't do. How come you can't deliver appliances for Sears in the same truck that you use for fedex at the same time???? Is it because you can choose what goes in your vehicle???? All the control makes you an employee, no matter that it hasn't yet been litigated. Fedex can call you an ISP, and you can pretend that you believe it. But when they control what you can put in YOUR vehicle, who can drive YOUR vehicle, and tell you where to be and when to be there in your own vehicle, you are not making your own decisions. Why can't you buy an old Geo metro and put all your rural deliveries in it to save on fuel, or hire someone with a moped to drop off a few packages for you? You don't run the service the way you want if you were truly independent- you run it the way they want you to run it. [/QUOTE]
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