Fed ex
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Topic: Fed ex
Posted By: ACinSC
Subject: Fed ex
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 7:40am
| Had one of their trucks delivering next door yesterday. Driver had very loud music playing in the truck. Never seen this before. Oh well, hope he was at the right house. |
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 2:20pm
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Lots of delivery trucks with Fed Ex on them are contracted from private companies/individuals and a lot of the drivers they hire are not top quality. Amazoo is the same way. If they damage something on your property, good luck in getting them to fix it. They just pass the buck back and forth unless you hire Dewey Cheatham & Howe to sue them. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 3:29pm
| This driver was wearing a Fed ex uniform for what that's worth. Thanks |
Posted By: Jim.ME
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 5:28pm
| Very few actual deliveries by in house Fed Ex trucks and drivers around here. Drivers around here have FedEx on their clothes, and it is a "uniform", but they are driving for and employees of a contractor. I expect Fed Ex has then do that for the image. The trucks have Fed Ex in big lettering with the contract carrier info in much smaller plain lettering, easy to miss when passing by on the road, most think it is an actual Fed Ex truck. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 8:44pm
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Think a lot of that is the difference between a IRS - 1099 and a W2 of is it a employee or contractor . ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2024 at 6:46am
| Have to say home delivery is pretty sad including USPS. We get neighbors packages fairly often. Guess they can't find good help? Thanks |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2024 at 6:50pm
| Here there are 2 contractors one is ground delivers and the other I was told was air shipped. The one has the contractors name, not so much on the other. |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2024 at 7:07pm
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FedEx ground is almost always contracted out (green and blue trucks) FedEx Air (red and blue)are regular employees of FX ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2024 at 10:05pm
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green/blue here and also loud noise coming from van!!! --- colored driver but at least she speaks english!! lol!! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2024 at 6:54am
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I will NEVER ship anything with FedEx. If given a choice I won't have them deliver any thing to me either. Once my package was thrown out by a neighbors mailbox on another road with a house number no where near to my number. Also in my 50+ years of highway driving I've seen numerous Crash & burns of FedEx trucks. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2024 at 7:18am
| They're all guilty. I witnessed an Old Dominion driver throwing boxes cuz the load was stacked out of order |
Posted By: Dorix
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2024 at 4:27pm
| This time of year they hire extra temporary drivers, I think they may have lower standards for them. |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2024 at 5:49pm
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This is no chit, since we are talking Fedex drivers: Just this past Saturday a Fedex truck came in my yard, the guy (with purple hair and nose/ear rings) gets out with the package. I was outside at the time so I said hey how's it going today? He says not so good, I ask why is that? Then he says Well I accidentally filled up my diesel delivery truck with unleaded this morning, now I'm driving a backup truck. I might not have this job any more when I get back to the warehouse. I said good luck with that, and off he went. I felt kinda bad for him even though he looked like a drug addled stoner.
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 5:58am
My brother did the opposite with a Volkswagen super beetle one time. $5 of diesel in the gas tank. Things would run for about 20 seconds then backfire and go dead. Smoked like crazy. Took the engine apart to rebuild and it was clean as a whistle. Then my uncle figured out what he did. They didn't think it was funny but I sure did.  ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2024 at 12:37pm
| Our mailman delivers all the packages from Amazon |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2024 at 4:38pm
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I order things on AMAZON... UPS and FEDEX normally deliver the LARGER packages... No problems with either.. Both the same quality at this point..... USPS is used to deliver some SMALL packages.. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |