Why I Am Still a FedEx Driver (And How Quitting Got Me To Where I Am)

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2022
  • Another day behind the wheel of a FedEx Ground truck
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Комментарии • 74

  • @LaosHouse
    @LaosHouse Год назад +23

    FedEx is cool by how flexible it is compared to other jobs. Glad you found something that works for you

    • @SteadyFuturesCapital
      @SteadyFuturesCapital Год назад +2

      It’s the Legend Laos House, when are you gonna give us an update on your journey bro?

    • @LaosHouse
      @LaosHouse Год назад +3

      @@SteadyFuturesCapital haha early december. Have some videos ready that I think you'll like! Promise!

    • @shadowk4718
      @shadowk4718 Год назад

      @@LaosHouse Laos funny thing I just came from watching your videos

  • @andrewa973
    @andrewa973 Год назад +3

    Good for you man keep pushing forward!! From sub 125

  • @Frezh99
    @Frezh99 Год назад +1

    When it comes to apartments and it’s upstairs & it’s heavy I usually write a note & leave it on the stairs.

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад

      Ya, I recently learned my new boss is cool with that. The old one was not 😬

  • @mkloven101
    @mkloven101 Год назад +2

    I'm going to start usps soon, i've heard a lot of stories but i'll try to stick with it at least a year

    • @savagedick1462
      @savagedick1462 Год назад

      Hows it goin so far

    • @mkloven101
      @mkloven101 Год назад +1

      @@savagedick1462 they still never got back to me 😂😂😂 i did the fingerprints thing and they just never called me back, gonna be starting fedex soon

  • @eminiscalperpro9729
    @eminiscalperpro9729 Год назад +6

    The routes I have run lately, there is no way to do 30 per hr. Its too spread out. I will be leaving soon as they are trying to get me to stay through Christmas. Its not as bad as it was the first few weeks, yet I'm a floater and haven't been on one route for a long period. With the right route and some negotiating on pay, I might would do it for awhile longer. But, I now have vitiligo and that makes it tough in the gulf coast heat. Plus I'm older now and racing to make deliveries is tuff on the body. Right now my current contractor pays 140 per day, which is not enough especially with the work load. I do know they will negotiate especially now with peak season they are getting desperate due to people quitting. If you can be done every day by 3 and they pay at least 175 per day then that's not bad. But unless u have the route dialed, then you might be out until 7 and that turns into a minimum wage job and its too much work for minimum wage. Get a route that u like and get done by 1-3 then it can be good, being you are getting at least 175 per day. Only problem where I am is that if you finish early they may have u out helping others with their routes. Idk it has pros and cons like all things but its pretty easy to get hired and start making money.

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +1

      Give them an ultimatum! Or quit (and do it in a way that keeps you on good terms) and then in two weeks offer to help them out here and there. If they’re desperate, they’ll take you back in any capacity they can

    • @Benjamin-mz1mb
      @Benjamin-mz1mb 4 месяца назад

      i wasnt on a route like these guys whatsoever stuck on a mall route taking cart after cart inside side doors back doors backing into the garage and much more i was actually saying what the balls after my 10 hour shift working with the trainer.. so hopefully my contractor will allow me to use regular van truck im not the type of dude to be walking everywhere back in forth in the damn shopping center all day

  • @CalypsoCoyote
    @CalypsoCoyote Год назад +6

    Worked but only made $130 a day with no benefits. Too much work and not enough pay so I quit. Going to usps now.

    • @Pr0sacK
      @Pr0sacK Год назад +2

      @Marty's 4x4 Up here in Wisconsin, tons of contractors were starting in the range of 175-180 per day even before peak started. Try Indeed, that's how I got in.

    • @shadowk4718
      @shadowk4718 Год назад

      @Marty's 4x4 really I’m in Texas Dallas and most pay you here 150-160 I switch to another contractor within a month and they will start me at 180

    • @orlandodanielperez5131
      @orlandodanielperez5131 Год назад

      Damn bro. I get paid 130$ to just deliver FedEx packages around a mall. Takes me about 3-4 hours. Most drivers around here make at least 160$

    • @lukedavenport8576
      @lukedavenport8576 Месяц назад

      Damn that’s criminal my contract pays $24hr you’d make more being a jumper/helper with my contractor even. It’s $140day as a jumper.

  • @whyme6036
    @whyme6036 Год назад +2

    What do you do for health insurance for the family and what does it cost you. I tried training for a mail route for $140 a day but found out insurance would be $1,250 per month and I could only go with Bluecross.

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад

      We are with US health group. It’s like $3-400 a month or something like that

    • @alishajohnson5329
      @alishajohnson5329 Год назад

      Is this the insurance through FedEx or it is separate ? Asking bc if FedEx is telling me the benefits starts the same day & that’s what there taking out my check then I’m not going to take it. So lost !!

    • @alishajohnson5329
      @alishajohnson5329 Год назад +2

      @quit your job … also found your videos. You commented on the other post thank you & congratulations on the baby. Many blessings to you & your family .

    • @erinrising2799
      @erinrising2799 Год назад +1

      UPS has really good insurance, nothing taken out of your paycheck

  • @dejan4666
    @dejan4666 Год назад +2

    can you elaborate how much you negotiated on?
    im currently in your shoes

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +4

      They were offering $170 day rate. I said I’d do it for $200. We settled on $190 with bonuses based on volume

  • @Bluebloods7
    @Bluebloods7 9 месяцев назад +1

    10:10 holy mackerel somebody get that old girl some new plugs!

  • @matticusminot8086
    @matticusminot8086 Год назад +3

    I would have never climbed those steps, either bottom of steps or by the mailbox.

    • @babyyames
      @babyyames Год назад +2

      Mannn I knew I wasn’t the only one 🫡… rich ppl order all these heavy boxes at the top of the hill or lonngggg driveways and they think we go take it all the way to the doooor😅

    • @matticusminot8086
      @matticusminot8086 Год назад +1

      @@babyyames LOL if it's a shelf or something so heavy, back right up to the garage and slide it off. BOX says team lift, but here we are doing it ourselves. For what 150 dollars a day no matter how long it takes us. pfft.

  • @Ari-rw9hv
    @Ari-rw9hv Год назад

    Does FedEx have military buy back program??

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +1

      What are they buying back?

    • @Ari-rw9hv
      @Ari-rw9hv Год назад

      @@Deliverypros so they aren’t buying anything it’s for veterans who have served and have the ability to take their time in service and contribute it towards a civilian federal career so they won’t have to do the whole 20 years working for said civilian job to get a pension. So say I did 4 years in the military, I would only have to work 16 years to get that pension and retire if I continue to work for a federal company. I heard some positions in FedEx provide that. I just can’t find if delivery drivers who are veterans get that too

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +1

      @@Ari-rw9hv so I know it’s called “federal express” but ground drivers aren’t federal employees because we work for third party companies. The company I worked for when I started was “stormbreaker delivery.” I’ve never actually worked for FedEx itself

  • @maryhester8305
    @maryhester8305 Год назад +1

    So does FedEx trucks ever get stopped by the IRS or the FBI

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +2

      Mine hasn’t. And I’ve transported A LOT of gun stuff 😂

  • @SteadyFuturesCapital
    @SteadyFuturesCapital Год назад +4

    biggest down side is not getting benefits with Fedex

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +1

      True that!

    • @davidholloway9349
      @davidholloway9349 Год назад +1

      Honestly my uncle been a driver for 8 years now here in California making about 28 an hour I started working for a warehouse as an orderselector been in two years and I’m already at 28 about to hit 30$ ! And with Benefits . It kinda sucks for the drivers that plan to stay the long run ! It pays well over time tho .

    • @davidholloway9349
      @davidholloway9349 Год назад +1

      My uncle always told me tho if we would’ve done it differently he would’ve gone express cuz the express drivers get benefits

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад

      @@davidholloway9349 ya, so the trade off there is flexibility. Flexibility is one of the main reasons I’ve stuck with ground so far

    • @SteadyFuturesCapital
      @SteadyFuturesCapital Год назад +1

      the highest i was able to negotiate a salary was to 240 a day back when i was in Fedex Ground, only lasted a month. After that they brought it back down to 190 a day without an explanation. It was the worst feeling ever ended up quitting a few months later turned in my 2 weeks notice and got a letter of recommendation I was out there.

  • @jimjab3631
    @jimjab3631 Год назад

    Guy has a safe, that's where all the stolen guns and ammo are stored

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад

      If I was stealing from the gun stores I deliver to and pickup from I’d need more than one and much bigger safes 😂

  • @JoeMama-lh7sw
    @JoeMama-lh7sw Год назад +2

    Lol people that quit FedEx and come back to FedEx are drama queens lol I've seen so many people walk out on the job is funny contractors running after trash employees.. I quit never going back and I made 1500 weekly busting my ass tho

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +4

      I don’t know how doing what you gotta do to get paid what you’re worth is dramatic, but you do you. My journey was literally, “hey, I’m pretty tired. I think I’m gonna bounce” and then “hey I’ve got some time to work here and there. Y’all need help?” Doesn’t seem that dramatic to me 😂 you making 6 grand a month and then quitting, that sounds dramatic hahaha

    • @MrAnonymous389
      @MrAnonymous389 Год назад +3

      @@Deliverypros watch your mouth

    • @supa_sets8636
      @supa_sets8636 Год назад +1

      @@Deliverypros I was in the same boat, I came back after a year break but even now it’s only temporary

    • @superdutysquad2256
      @superdutysquad2256 2 месяца назад

      ​@@MrAnonymous389watch your mouth fatso 😂

  • @TrancerideR6
    @TrancerideR6 5 месяцев назад

    Brooo....that truck tho!!! 🤣🚽🤣

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  5 месяцев назад

      Now they’ve got some other poor idiot driving that crap wagon 😂

  • @somewherebymarz735
    @somewherebymarz735 Год назад +1

    Your name is “quit you’re job “…yet you haven’t even put your job.

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +6

      Did you watch the whole video? 😂 I did quit my job, then came back voluntarily on my terms, and now the job is what I want it to be.

    • @codenamenova6831
      @codenamenova6831 Год назад

      Waiiiit I’m lost here I’m 20 and I’m really interested to be a fed ex driver as soon as I turn 21. Did you quit and returned?

    • @codenamenova6831
      @codenamenova6831 Год назад

      What were the terms 👀

    • @Deliverypros
      @Deliverypros  Год назад +1

      @@codenamenova6831 yup! I quit for about a month and a half to personal train full time. But if you do it right, you can make a solid income on low hours training. So I offered to work here and there for the contractor I quit for to fill that extra time and make some extra money. After I moved all my personal training clients to online I told my contractor I could work a consistent short route. That evolved into the route I’m on now that you see in this video

    • @rochester3
      @rochester3 Год назад

      @@codenamenova6831 go work for ups they pay way better over 33 an hour after 4 years