UPS Accused Drivers Of Stealing..

I talk to some UPSF drivers at the one meet place we both share. Their trucks are usually governed at around 72. My truck at Old Dominion is 64, some of our trucks are 68. We are faster than ABF and YRC, but UPSF, Ward, Pitt-Ohio and Fed Ex Freight are always are able to pass me.

There's definitely a difference between most Fed Ex Freight drivers and Fed Ex Ground drivers. The former are company drivers, usually in day cabs, as the venerable G-Town mentioned. Fed Ex Ground drivers are in sleepers and are hauling ass. For me, Fed Ex Ground drivers are the greatest offenders on the road, along with a lot of other O/Os, chicken haulers, and bull haulers.

Fed Ex Ground (the green and purple, Fed Ex Freight is red and purple) will put the 'wiggle' into wiggle wagons. They are almost always wigglin' their doubles on the road. My theory is that because Fed Ex Ground is contracted out to O/O, the drivers don't get adequate training on pulling doubles. Perhaps some of these drivers are just swapping a van for a set of doubles without realizing how much sawing the wheel will contribute to wiggling those wagons. "Sawing the wheel," if some of you don't know that term, is when a driver over-compensates the natural movement of the rig by over-steering. You should just be able to lay your hands on the wheel and not have to constantly turn it side to side. I guarantee most of those Fed Ex Ground drivers are sawing the wheel to make those doubles wrangle and slither about on the roads. It's a testament to their lack of training by their O/O bosses - oops, did I just say that?

Was hit by FedEx my first few days on a truck and my trainer reached across me on the cb to yell "FedEx to jack@$$". That was just wonderful... but he never thought that I could lose control of the truck while he was doing that. Smh.