No it won’t. It’s the lease under motor carrier authority that limits the customer to Ground while under dispatch. That is a standard practice in transportation. A large percentage of all trucking is done by independent owner operators that lease under the DOT number of larger companies. When you do that you can’t run freight for someone else while operating under their authority.
But, can your so called company in and of itself under it's own corporate banner say IWBF Inc. haul for another carrier using your own trucks and drivers.....Trucks and drivers that are insured by Fat Freddy?
My equipment is only insured by Ground when they operate under dispatch. I can use my equipment for anything else but they are covered under my insurance when I do.
These wanna-be’s are funny.When did @cheryl hand you the keys?
Good to see that you're reaping the benefits of the efforts made to force that company to grant goodwill and proprietary rights. None of that would exist today if not for the need to go so far as to sue them to finally get them relent. Unfortunately, one fact still remains. There's not a damn thing you do while operating under Fat Freddy's brand and number that is NOT subject to the command and oversight of Fat Freddy. I remain convinced that the model will be subject to much closer congressional review in the days ahead now that both houses and the White House are under Democrat control . Face it. even to this day there is still no meaningful right of refusal and that so called "contract" they can revise and rewrite it at any time and in any manner they chose without the threat of any individual or organized contractor opposition.
No. You're not.
You feeling froggy? Leap !
Why won't you answer any questions I have? Don't have time, but you can keep replying to many posts on this board.
@bacha29 Why do you care anymore what the current providers are doing? What are you trying to achieve from these comments?
The reason for the discussion is that there is still a legal question of whether the current agreement meets the legal definitions of independent contractor status under state and federal law. It doesn't matter if current contractors 'feel' happy with all the control. Bacha and myself just point out that 'feelings' are not the issue. My opinion is that the contract at best creates a franchise or possible co-employer' condition and Fedex has simply made changes the reduce their risk of ever being challenged do to the massive expense and massive financial advantage fedex has, and the massive cost any 'contractor' would have in fighting. The government won't bother enforcing the law as long as they collect the tax revenue. I don't think there is much chance of change, but the minute fedex thinks it can save a tenth of a penny, they CAN unilaterally cancel all the contracts, so buying a 'business' that can be immediately cancelled may not be a wise investment. If you got your routes for free, and have almost nothing invested, and can make a living by underpaying others, and are comfortable with it, go for it.
Couldn't have said it better myself. When volume allowed for an additional route. I and my 2 other Day 1 contractors where offered the route completely free of charge. We turned it and all others down and let whoever came in off the street and wanted it to take it. However, we made it clear to them that nothing in that worthless piece of paper they were signing as totally one side as it was, was binding upon Ground and prepare to be lied to....a lot. We did everything we could to help them but none of them lasted long. I asked them why they were leaving and it was the same answer.... " I was lied to". Same old thing. The areas they were assigned to were not the areas they were told they would be assigned. The workday they were told would be 8 hours long ended up 12 hours. The money they were told they would make was in fact the money they made. Only problem was what they were told they would make was what they would GROSS not what their pretax net would be.
I was told that I was contracting for one zip code, and could set me own hours with the start of HD. The contract I signed had one zip code. Then they claimed that a single zip code was not allowing them to make 'full use' of the vehicle, and they could fill it wath as much as they wanted. One manager even went so far as to tall me that 'your service area is defined by what is on your manifest when I found packages as far as 50 miles out of my way that wouldn't fint in that contractor's truck. Then there was the 'unlimited' growth potential promised when I wanted to hire another driver in the first month and was flatly deniedwith the excuse that no contractor could have secondary routes until the terminal was serving the entire projected service area. I had wanted to get in early just for the purpose of getting in on the ground floor when more growth in service area was actually occurring. Yes, fedex lies and actually has a whole set of policies not listed in the contract that affect how they apply the contract.
The reason for the discussion is that there is still a legal question of whether the current agreement meets the legal definitions of independent contractor status under state and federal law.
The first contract I signed the terminal manager was shocked I actually read the whole thing. I couldn’t believe people signed it without doing so.
And did they change the terms simply because you read it?
However, we made it clear to them that nothing in that worthless piece of paper they were signing as totally one side as it was, was binding upon Ground and prepare to be lied to....a lot. We did everything we could to help them but none of them lasted long. I asked them why they were leaving and it was the same answer.... " I was lied to".
When we started we were told that the work day would be 10 hours and reduced to 8 in 1-2 months Five years later we were still doing 12 and them some. We went in at 5:30 AM and nobody got bask before 9PM. When mid management found out about it who did terminal blame it on ? Blamed it on us. Why were we out there all day and half the night? They forgot the RD carrier miles that went with the zip code. One of 34 zip codes stretched across 4 rural counties that I ended up with that included more than 3400 miles of RD carrier miles. That's what I had to cover in one day. We ran everyday no days off. In fact I couldn't even get to my own father's funeral because terminal would do nothing to make arrangements so I could get away. Anybody calls in a bitch due to the fact that there was no arbitration process you were automatically guilty. Complaints of speeding? My response? " What speed detection instrument was the complainant using? How fast did it say I was going? Who calibrated that instrument and who certified it's results? Didn't matter to management. And safety? After listening to an hour lecture on safety I spoke up and said " Sir let me remind you of something. You're company divested itself of every workplace health as safety liability as it pertained to we the people who are out there doing your dirty work . Why are you here barking at us like a junk yard dog about safety? ..silence. And here's one for you. a few years after being ordered to file articles of PRIVATELY held Subchapter S corporation I was ordered to turn over to corporate for "their audit and review" my S-Corps private operational records much of which are passed through to 1040 despite the fact that they are privileged information protected un der US privacy laws. LET"S SEE YOU SQUARE THAT ONE! And BTW after somebody called in a bitch I had to undergo company sensitivity training in exchange for a "get out of jail free card" despite the fact I WASN"T WEVEN THEIR friend#!*ING EMPLOYEE! What do you have to say about that?
Cry me a river you babbling baby
Your backbone.
