FedEx Freight Reviews

Pros

For a part time job the pay is pretty good, I have watched folks become promoted into mgmt and to full time driving. In this economy that is a great indicator of a solid co. Fellow employees are well motivated and positive overall. The supervisors are great and they provided fairly good training.

Cons

The required hours are mostly at night... working night shifts can be a challenge for anyone. This specific location doesn't provide heat on the dock area... the cold can be harsh in winter. Some locations do have heat. The dock environment can get a little dull therefore it's important to keep a positive outlook with fellow employees.

Advice to Senior Management

I would recommend some additional employee recognition programs on the dock... I would try to keep the pre shift meetings positive, and I would have the dock, forklifts and other areas cleaned more often.

Pros

Get to drive a truck that says Fedex on the side of it. Pay, benefits somewhat. I still have a job.

Cons

This is the most micro-managed company I have ever worked for and I only thought the military was that way. These people do not take into consideration how long some of us have been working for the company, how much time, effort, blood, sweat and sometimes tears has been invested in what we do. We used to take pride in doing our job but I guess that doesn't matter any longer as long as you get the required bill count or tonnage on the nearst shiney wheel trailer. Most of us strive to do better and want to be more than just glorified dock workers with a commercail drivers license but I don't think it will get better any time soon, just worse. I have lost count of the road runs this company has done away with so they don't have to pay a driver his pay or benefits any longer. Their view is to put it all on long haul truck lines while charging the customer through the nose to ship their freight and Fedex Freight probably doesn't ship it more than 300 miles before it is unloaded and crammed on a long haul truck lines trailer. Never mind that the more times you touch the freight the better chance you have of damaging it before it gets delivered. We used to get meager production bonsus but they added so many variables that it became unobtainable. If you have a strong back and weak mind this is the type of people they want to hire in and only as part-time so they don't have to pay them any benefits. I knew guys that had worked for the company for over 20 years on the dock and didn't have a commercial drivers license and they were let go supposedly because they didn't have one. Less than two weeks later a bunch of part-timers were hired to take their place. So its cost effective to the company that they don't have to pay the max pay and benefits to these long term employee's while their freight damages have gone through the roof. Two wrongs don't make a right!

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the bean counters. Hire for middle management through the company not from the outside, that way you don't have to train them all the in's and out's of how Fedex Freight operates. LISTEN to your long term employee's (what few you still have) we strive to do our job right the first time every time. Quit pushing us to be like UPS, Fedex is an independent company, it shouldn't have to try and operate like the competition.

Pros

It is a company with the potential to be great, most of the people are great, pay and benefits are fairly good.

Cons

Constant push to do "more" no matter how unprofessional the results are. There is no real interest in improving the quality of customer service, reducing loss and damage, or taking responsibility for counterproductive work policies.

 Dock workers are part time, and are treated like "part time" workers. They know how to do the job right but are not allowed due to bill count requirements.

 Inadequate, poorly maintained power units not suitable for the environment, and not enough freight handling equipment for all drivers.

Advice to Senior Management

Do the job properly and professionally and efficiency will improve, Stop setting up your people to fail. Quit playing the blame game and fix the problem, poor work policies and procedures.

Pros

A very simple job to do, your on a forklift 95% of the time. The only time your ever required to get off is to A) use the restroom or b) scan your bills off or onto a trailer. By far the easiest job and money Ive ever had. As long as your working and not messing around, the higher ups WILL stay off your back.

Cons

The night shift, lazy drivers who milk the clock when dispatched from other centers. Some supervisor force you to stuff the hell out of these trailers, potential breaking of shipments will happen. Miscommunication everywhere, and the supervisors never seem to make up there minds about anything.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers do thank employees for their hard work....but stop showing favoritism to certain employees. Do not praise mediocre work just for high bill counts, but instead praise those who do everything right and then some.

Pros

great pay compared to other companies.

Cons

Large percentage of the workforce is part time.

Pros

Competitive pay. Benefits are fair. Follow directions and you have a secure future.
Ability to transfer to other locations when openings are posted.

Cons

Lack of direction. Poor communication from upper management. Local management is under constant pressure and in constatnt fear of losing their job.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership needs to walk the talk. Employees are confused, need direction and education in regards to all the changes.

Pros

The only pros are the pay and benefits. Top out pay for City drivers is $22.30. We have a small pension in addition to the 401k. Health insurance is crazy expensive but that is with everybody these days.

Cons

Micromanaged to the point that nobody has the ability to make a decision. Not the driver that has the problem, not the dispatcher, not the operations supervisor, not the terminal manager. A simple issue must go all the way up the ladder and of course by the time it gets there our competitors have picked up the freight. Every level of management is afraid of the level above themselves creating an atmosphere of distrust and nobody willing to take a stand. The company does not trust its people. Fedex spends so much money on the hiring process and education that one would think we would be given the opportunity to use our own skills and judgement to best perform the job at hand, instead we are shackelled and treated like incompetent children.

Advice to Senior Management

Take pride in your people! Trust them to do a good job and if they don't, FIRE them! Let us shine and prove that we are more than drones. We are the company, we are the one's the customer sees. We are the one's that operate the equipment. And yet we are treated like the company would be better without us. Start respecting the labor before we rise up, join together and force that respect through union talks

Pros

good benefits, good advancement options if willing to move, computer system is great gives you all you need to know. drivers and dock workers will do anything you ask them to do.

Cons

they dont care about your personal life or family life. they will make you work whatever hours they want without a care for you or your family. they will change your schedule with only a few days notice so no time to really plan anything. vacation time, its hard to get days you want if you havent been there for awhile. if you are salary they dont give you breaks so what if you work a 12+ hour day they dont give you a break for lunch or anything, they expect you to just keep working.

Advice to Senior Management

dont think just about goals give a little thought to the people who work for you. give positive feedback every once in awhile. dont play favorites to some people and dump everything else on to others, it weights some of us down while others get to sail a long and do a bunch of nothing. bring in upper and regional management more and have manager meetings so we can voice our concerns and give ideas we have.

Pros

FedEx is great because you make a good salary, receive great benefits, and have an opportunity at great career growth. Once you're in, and are willing to move, you can easily reach manager level within a few years.

Cons

In order to move up fast, you have to be willing to work horrible hours and move a lot. If you wish to stay where you are, expect to stay in the same position forever (unless you live in a large city and maybe you'll get lucky). It is also very hard to get out of FedEx Freight. Being a supervisor makes you good at being a supervisor but does little in regards to teaching you the business of trucking/logistics.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow for promising younger members of the management team the opportunity to take sales positions to help round them out. I know a few people who have tried to transfer into sales and have had little or no luck.

Pros

money is not bad,that about it everything eles they try take away from you..

Cons

fedex spends thousands of dollars training you and double that tring to get rid of you.(hostle work environment). bottom line share holders is all they care about..

Advice to Senior Management

You guys seem to forget that it is the dock, city, and road that make a company work not to mention office,You guys take all that away and what do you have? Some people have pride in their work(used to)A happy worker is a productive worker.Good leadership goes a long way, but I have yet to see it with fedex..If you guys would spend half the time looking at your spread sheets looking with common sence this company would really take off instead of your employees taking off like one of your jets..