BigJon:
Looked into doing OTR or regional work, but Im soft and like my own bed and creature comforts. As for waiting for deliveries or pickups, i get paid by the hour, so i dont care if im sat waiting for an hour or two (managers may not like me doing that though).
I just gave up doing OT on Saturdays, as I like to have time off work to spend with my wife / friends.
My day starts at 5am and somedays im still there at 6pm. I dont have to fiddle any logbooks (no logbooks as im a city driver ).
Fedex is a great company to work for, excellent benefits with 90% coverage for most things (drugs are free after $1500 iirc). Company pension after a year service which is vested after 2 years with company (we pay 3% of weekly pay and company pays 6%). my current hourly rate is $24.44 with 2.5% increase every 6 months. when i hit 5 years service i get an automatic $4 or $5 hourly pay increase (at 3 years now). time and half after 8 hours and DT after 12 hours or 60 hrs a week. Night shift premium of $0.50 / hour. Public holidays off.
As for my abstinence from here, it was self imposed. Didnt like the way it was moving about a year ago. seems to have cooled off and returned to the good old TN i used to enjoy
Sounds a bloody good job. A friend of mine was talking to a Fedex driver based in Toronto about a year ago and he was on a similar thing…living out on the edge of the world in NB we can only dream of such jobs, its all long haul work here and the very few local jobs that pay by the hour are dead mans shoes and even then its $12-16 p/h so not much cop. I love my job at the moment but when it comes to settling down properly there is no way on earth that I’ll be doing this, and if that means moving to another part of Canada or even back to the UK to have a life outside of work, then so be it.
BigJon:
Looked into doing OTR or regional work, but Im soft and like my own bed and creature comforts. As for waiting for deliveries or pickups, i get paid by the hour, so i dont care if im sat waiting for an hour or two (managers may not like me doing that though).
I just gave up doing OT on Saturdays, as I like to have time off work to spend with my wife / friends.
My day starts at 5am and somedays im still there at 6pm. I dont have to fiddle any logbooks (no logbooks as im a city driver ).
Fedex is a great company to work for, excellent benefits with 90% coverage for most things (drugs are free after $1500 iirc). Company pension after a year service which is vested after 2 years with company (we pay 3% of weekly pay and company pays 6%). my current hourly rate is $24.44 with 2.5% increase every 6 months. when i hit 5 years service i get an automatic $4 or $5 hourly pay increase (at 3 years now). time and half after 8 hours and DT after 12 hours or 60 hrs a week. Night shift premium of $0.50 / hour. Public holidays off.
As for my abstinence from here, it was self imposed. Didnt like the way it was moving about a year ago. seems to have cooled off and returned to the good old TN i used to enjoy
That’s a nice hourly rate BJ, (always chuckle when I type those two letters ) the average around here is $16 to $18 for P&D work, but then the cost of living around here is significantly lower than it is up there, so I guess it all balances out in the end.
A company like FedEx, with all its add on benefits is a very good place to work, you may earn a little less than you could get OTR, but you would be mad to swap a home every night gig for one that has you away all week
Best job I ever had was working for Fed Ex in the UK, mostly on the Matchbox Toys contract, I worked from Nov 1988 to july 1994, made 34k (pounds) in my last year which was a lot of money. Paid by the hour, free flights on Fed Ex planes, 90% discount on all major airlines (example – Round trip 1st class on Virgin, Gatwick to Boston for 240 quid or economy for 28 quid).
Got made redundant in 1994 and got a very big pay off and still have my Fed Ex pension and airline pass, but havn’t had the nerve to even try it since leaving LOL.
fly sheet:
Anything from 5 ~ 12 days, I prefer less than 7 if possible as I get bored…
When you finally get home,how many days are you home for ■■
I have two nights home normally, it depends on whats happening I like to be flexible, I will be out eleven days this trip & I will be home Monday afternoon weather permitting, I will then probably load Thursday & head out Friday for a Monday tip.
Dont believe the mo fos about my $5 skates ive splashed out on some new ones but my syaticness is haunting my ice time.
ChrisArbon:
Forty-two trips so far this year, so that’s about 1 a week. Thirty-six hours off and then go again.
Can’t stay at home; out numbered by Searcy drivers, four to two. 230,378 km since 1st jan 2012.
You need new digs hanging out with flat deck mens beneath you
At least the other dry van bloke residing with you is a pro…
I have to say … If the company i work for just expected me to take the minimum weekly reset then start work again I would be looking for another job. A weekend is two days and thats at least 48 hours with my family, as it is I mostly get 2.5 to 3 days because they know I would quit if otherwise.
Pat Hasler:
I have to say … If the company i work for just expected me to take the minimum weekly reset then start work again I would be looking for another job. A weekend is two days and thats at least 48 hours with my family, as it is I mostly get 2.5 to 3 days because they know I would quit if otherwise.
Thats one thing that gets me about North America. Its one thing to be away for a few weeks but this mentality of having 36 hours and 1 minute and going straight back out again has never agreed with me. I like long haul work, I enjoy the adventure and so on but I also like to wind down at home and to me that is a minimum of two full days with three nights at home. I’m doing a 36hr reset now in Grimsby, Ontario and thats fine, I’m in the truck and dont want to be sat around any longer and I’m only here because I cant tip until Monday morning anyway.
The first company I worked at in Canada always thought they were being clever when you told them you’d go back out on Monday for example, and they’d try and plan you to leave the yard at half an hour past midnight as that was technically Monday. As I told them, in order to do that I’d have to spend most of Sunday sleeping in preparation so thats not a day off and they fould ferk off with ideas like that and anymore mention of nonsense of that nature and I’d be starting on Tuesday instead.
BigJon:
Yes mick 1/2 my day is spent driving our 53 footer.
I asked did you do long haul?
Did you choose to come off long haul onto city work?
I would have for those rates.
No never did do long haul, didnt need to as I needed no PR card / Work permit.
longest drive ive done is Edmonton <> Calgary, and did a Edmonton<> Lloydminster once.
Pat Hasler:
I have to say … If the company i work for just expected me to take the minimum weekly reset then start work again I would be looking for another job. A weekend is two days and thats at least 48 hours with my family, as it is I mostly get 2.5 to 3 days because they know I would quit if otherwise.
Thats one thing that gets me about North America. Its one thing to be away for a few weeks but this mentality of having 36 hours and 1 minute and going straight back out again has never agreed with me. I like long haul work, I enjoy the adventure and so on but I also like to wind down at home and to me that is a minimum of two full days with three nights at home. I’m doing a 36hr reset now in Grimsby, Ontario and thats fine, I’m in the truck and dont want to be sat around any longer and I’m only here because I cant tip until Monday morning anyway.
The first company I worked at in Canada always thought they were being clever when you told them you’d go back out on Monday for example, and they’d try and plan you to leave the yard at half an hour past midnight as that was technically Monday. As I told them, in order to do that I’d have to spend most of Sunday sleeping in preparation so thats not a day off and they fould ferk off with ideas like that and anymore mention of nonsense of that nature and I’d be starting on Tuesday instead.
I’m having what I class as a reset this weekend, I finished at lunchtime on Friday and I’ll go back in this evening (Sunday) so it will be about 50hrs between leaving the yard and starting back. I’m only going in today to make my life a bit easier, the weather has taken a turn for the worse and I plan to knock out a few hours this evening so I can have a lazy day tomorrow.
If I reset on the road, I always work it so that I have 36hrs and 1 minute and then hit the road again. We’ve just had a pay rise for layover days, so resetting on the road almost pays as much as a big driving day. I then try to burn through my next 70 before going home for a few days, I look at it as a two week work period rather than a week, otherwise resetting on the road doesn’t make sense to me. A friend works for a company (gold trucks) that have a system where the drivers are required to have a certain number of log days per month, yet if the drivers reset on the road it doesn’t count as a log day, they class it as a day off ffs, I have to say there is no way I would ever reset on the road for a company like that.
not gone through the whole post but I’m norm out for about 10 days straight come back have reset then off again. if I want a weekend or what ever off then its not a problem soo far
newmercman:
A friend works for a company (gold trucks) that have a system where the drivers are required to have a certain number of log days per month, yet if the drivers reset on the road it doesn’t count as a log day, they class it as a day off ffs, I have to say there is no way I would ever reset on the road for a company like that.
Looks like an advert for The UN to me, poxy job by the sound of it, no good comes from all this working to the extremes of the law, there in place to be used as a guide of what you can & cannot do not as what & how you must work.
Fedex are recruiting a truck driver in Mississauga Ontario at the moment if anyone has an open work permit or doesn’t need a work permit and wants to have a punt.
Starting wage isn’t great but the benefits are sound. fedexcanadaeng.hire.com/viewjob. … rmCode=any
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) the average around here is $16 to $18 for P&D work, but then the cost of living around here is significantly lower than it is up there, so I guess it all balances out in the end.
