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No disrespect, I had to chuckle about the long days comment. That's pretty much what a lot of linehaul drivers do every shift. 12-14 hours is common.

No disrespect, I had to chuckle about the long days comment. That's pretty much what a lot of linehaul drivers do every shift. 12-14 hours is common.

Oh yeah, I didn't mean that I can't handle it. Just getting prepared for it. Hard work and long hours don't bother me. I'm a go getter, just gotta have something to go get. Just hope this all works out to my advantage.

The stars may be aligning for me. Had PRK laser eye surgery last Friday. Last Thursday, I get a call from a FedEx recruiter to schedule an interview for a part time dock worker position I applied to about 3 weeks ago. I let her know i was going in for surgery and would be down for a week or so. Today is tuesday, went got my bandage contacts out of my eyes, drove to and from my appointment by myself with no glasses or contacts for the first time in my life! My vision isn't all the way crisp yet. stll blurry. Need more time to heal, but so far, it's pretty amazing!

So Friday is my interview, having the wife make me some good copies of my resume, although I don't think I will need it, these positions are pretty much for anyone with a heartbeat i think. However, I still want to be prepared. But it's going to at the very least allow me to get my foot in the door. And I'm hoping for 3 things, the extra pay ($16.16/hr to start part time), to help pay for this surgery I just had. 2. maybe get myself noticed to possibly be offered a full time position to get away from my current job I'm in now, without having to quit my current job and take the chance of ending up somewhere worse than I am now. And 3, once I'm there for a month or so, start asking questions and showing my interest in driving linehaul.

Here come the long days! I'll be doing 8am-4:30pm at my full time job, then down the road to FedEx from 5pm-9 or10pm.

Good luck on the interview! Just be upbeat and enthused about the position during the interview. It will probably take about 30 mins or so. For dockworkers not sure if they offer the job right then or there or will be in contact back in about a week or so.

Once hired there is about a week of computer based training then you will be assigned a mentor on the docks to show you the ropes.

The stars may be aligning for me. Had PRK laser eye surgery last Friday. Last Thursday, I get a call from a FedEx recruiter to schedule an interview for a part time dock worker position I applied to about 3 weeks ago. I let her know i was going in for surgery and would be down for a week or so. Today is tuesday, went got my bandage contacts out of my eyes, drove to and from my appointment by myself with no glasses or contacts for the first time in my life! My vision isn't all the way crisp yet. stll blurry. Need more time to heal, but so far, it's pretty amazing!

So Friday is my interview, having the wife make me some good copies of my resume, although I don't think I will need it, these positions are pretty much for anyone with a heartbeat i think. However, I still want to be prepared. But it's going to at the very least allow me to get my foot in the door. And I'm hoping for 3 things, the extra pay ($16.16/hr to start part time), to help pay for this surgery I just had. 2. maybe get myself noticed to possibly be offered a full time position to get away from my current job I'm in now, without having to quit my current job and take the chance of ending up somewhere worse than I am now. And 3, once I'm there for a month or so, start asking questions and showing my interest in driving linehaul.

Here come the long days! I'll be doing 8am-4:30pm at my full time job, then down the road to FedEx from 5pm-9 or10pm.

Good luck on the interview! Just be upbeat and enthused about the position during the interview. It will probably take about 30 mins or so. For dockworkers not sure if they offer the job right then or there or will be in contact back in about a week or so.

Once hired there is about a week of computer based training then you will be assigned a mentor on the docks to show you the ropes.

Just got back from the interview. DSH69, you pretty much nailed the process. I think it went pretty smoothly, but with that being said, I DON'T interview well. Just not good at the "tell about a time" and "how you fixed it" scenario's. I can come up with 10 answers before hand, but when asked in an interview, just fizzle. Answer the question, but probably not as good as I could have. Anyways, he told me to watch my email Monday for a conditional offer, and really went into detail of the next following steps, so I would assume I got it.

I did ask about other opportunities where he touched on the driver apprenticeship. I touched on that with a few follow up questions, but didn't want to turn the interview into something it wasn't about. Sounds like I just need to get the permit and wait for a spot to open, and he made it sound like FedEx employees interested would get first crack.

The down side to their linehaul/longhaul he said is the combination dock work. He said there is another FedEx terminal about 40 miles away. He said linehaul to there could end up working the dock for 5 hours. And a linehaul to somewhere like Wichita, KS, from Kansas City, Mo, may only do an hour of dock work. I don't have much against that, I could do the work, but it just seems like they are trying to make 2 employees out of 1. Plus how do you keep track of time.....hourly dock, cpm driving? Seems confusing. I want to DRIVE. Hook up loaded trailers, drive, unhook, re-hook, and drive some more.

I'm gonna give this part time dock thing a go for now though and see where it leads. Pretty much think I'm ready to take the permit test, but may read through the book again. I do okay on the practice questions here on the site.

Also, almost all of the FedEx doubles I see around here have a sleeper unit?? Rarely see day cab doubles.

The stars may be aligning for me. Had PRK laser eye surgery last Friday. Last Thursday, I get a call from a FedEx recruiter to schedule an interview for a part time dock worker position I applied to about 3 weeks ago. I let her know i was going in for surgery and would be down for a week or so. Today is tuesday, went got my bandage contacts out of my eyes, drove to and from my appointment by myself with no glasses or contacts for the first time in my life! My vision isn't all the way crisp yet. stll blurry. Need more time to heal, but so far, it's pretty amazing!

So Friday is my interview, having the wife make me some good copies of my resume, although I don't think I will need it, these positions are pretty much for anyone with a heartbeat i think. However, I still want to be prepared. But it's going to at the very least allow me to get my foot in the door. And I'm hoping for 3 things, the extra pay ($16.16/hr to start part time), to help pay for this surgery I just had. 2. maybe get myself noticed to possibly be offered a full time position to get away from my current job I'm in now, without having to quit my current job and take the chance of ending up somewhere worse than I am now. And 3, once I'm there for a month or so, start asking questions and showing my interest in driving linehaul.

Here come the long days! I'll be doing 8am-4:30pm at my full time job, then down the road to FedEx from 5pm-9 or10pm.

Good luck on the interview! Just be upbeat and enthused about the position during the interview. It will probably take about 30 mins or so. For dockworkers not sure if they offer the job right then or there or will be in contact back in about a week or so.

Once hired there is about a week of computer based training then you will be assigned a mentor on the docks to show you the ropes.

Just got back from the interview. DSH69, you pretty much nailed the process. I think it went pretty smoothly, but with that being said, I DON'T interview well. Just not good at the "tell about a time" and "how you fixed it" scenario's. I can come up with 10 answers before hand, but when asked in an interview, just fizzle. Answer the question, but probably not as good as I could have. Anyways, he told me to watch my email Monday for a conditional offer, and really went into detail of the next following steps, so I would assume I got it.

I did ask about other opportunities where he touched on the driver apprenticeship. I touched on that with a few follow up questions, but didn't want to turn the interview into something it wasn't about. Sounds like I just need to get the permit and wait for a spot to open, and he made it sound like FedEx employees interested would get first crack.

The down side to their linehaul/longhaul he said is the combination dock work. He said there is another FedEx terminal about 40 miles away. He said linehaul to there could end up working the dock for 5 hours. And a linehaul to somewhere like Wichita, KS, from Kansas City, Mo, may only do an hour of dock work. I don't have much against that, I could do the work, but it just seems like they are trying to make 2 employees out of 1. Plus how do you keep track of time.....hourly dock, cpm driving? Seems confusing. I want to DRIVE. Hook up loaded trailers, drive, unhook, re-hook, and drive some more.

I'm gonna give this part time dock thing a go for now though and see where it leads. Pretty much think I'm ready to take the permit test, but may read through the book again. I do okay on the practice questions here on the site.

Also, almost all of the FedEx doubles I see around here have a sleeper unit?? Rarely see day cab doubles.

Yup. Sounds like you got it. Congrats!

Yes, they are trying to get two employees out of one. A few hours of driving, a few hours of dock, seem to be par for the course. Relays are common, at least here. The trade-off is decent pay and home every day. Plus you get your CDL :)

Time is kept track of on your pad and the clock. You will log your driving time and time spent on the dock electronically. For City drivers there is no cpm to keep track of. All hourly. As far as I know.

Every dockworker that started the computer based training over several weeks I was in there was asked if they were interested in being a Driver Apprentice. So you may as well get your Learner's Permit / DOT physical. Start the training here and get a manual from your local DMV

DSH69, in your profile thing, it says company driver in training. How long have you worked/been driving for FedEx? How do you like it? Would you be willing to comment on your pay or pay structure? Or through a PM? Do you drive AND do dock work? Not even sure how to find a PM on here. Still new. Gonna be looking for the conditional offer email tomorrow for the part time dock. Really need to go ahead and get this permit out of the way and have it so I'm ready when a spot opens up. I have a lot of down time at my full time job, so when I do, I sneak out the CDL manual and read in it. Read it once, gonna re-read it again starting this week. Pretty confident I could pass, but want to make sure. I planned to attend a trucking school at the first of the year for a CDL, but if I had a chance for a FedEx Apprentice driver opportunity, I'd take that and save the $4,000, plus already have a job! I gotta get out of my current situation, my current job has turned me into a pretty negative person, mostly just when I am there. i don't even talk to people anymore. Just go in, do my 8 hrs, talk if it pertains to work, and go home. I'm gonna have to make sure I leave it there when I clock out and have a fresh start 30 mins later at FedEx.

DSH69, in your profile thing, it says company driver in training. How long have you worked/been driving for FedEx? How do you like it? Would you be willing to comment on your pay or pay structure? Or through a PM? Do you drive AND do dock work? Not even sure how to find a PM on here. Still new. Gonna be looking for the conditional offer email tomorrow for the part time dock. Really need to go ahead and get this permit out of the way and have it so I'm ready when a spot opens up. I have a lot of down time at my full time job, so when I do, I sneak out the CDL manual and read in it. Read it once, gonna re-read it again starting this week. Pretty confident I could pass, but want to make sure. I planned to attend a trucking school at the first of the year for a CDL, but if I had a chance for a FedEx Apprentice driver opportunity, I'd take that and save the $4,000, plus already have a job! I gotta get out of my current situation, my current job has turned me into a pretty negative person, mostly just when I am there. i don't even talk to people anymore. Just go in, do my 8 hrs, talk if it pertains to work, and go home. I'm gonna have to make sure I leave it there when I clock out and have a fresh start 30 mins later at FedEx.

I'm just starting the program with FedEx myself. Pay is about $19hr to start and goes to $21 when I pass my CDL test.

My first month has been computer based training, then dock training for several weeks. I start my Drivers training in a few weeks. I have three weeks of hands-on training then take my CDL test with several more weeks of training after that.

"City drivers", I think "short haul" is more accurate, work the dock AND drive. Short answer is the drivers that deliver to our hub first drive to the hub, work the dock while the trailer they're picking up is loaded then they go back to their home station. I think the max distance one-way is 200 miles, but I could be wrong. Of course, our drivers do the same driving to other stations.

There are also City Drivers that do P&D during the day. Usually they have the most seniority and can pick what they want to do.

Sounds like I may be coming right behind you, but I am starting on the dock part time first. Did you get hired as a driver apprentice? I did get hired for the dock, still going through paperwork, did a drug test today. The lady told me it could still be a couple weeks. Pretty lengthy process, even as a part timer.

Hows the program so far? Are you at what would be your home terminal , or do you have to go travel for the class? Good luck and keep me updated as to how the process goes.

Oh yeah, and wanted to ask you DSH69, what type of driver are you in training for? P&D , linehaul? Do you get a choice of what you want to do, or do they just say we're gonna train you to and you're gonna do what we tell you?

Oh yeah, and wanted to ask you DSH69, what type of driver are you in training for? P&D , linehaul? Do you get a choice of what you want to do, or do they just say we're gonna train you to and you're gonna do what we tell you?

I'm training for a City Driver position. They didn't give me a choice and I'm not sure if they hire directly into a Road Driver position. Though if you look up the hiring reqs for Road Driver they say you have to have one year experience OR graduate their Apprentice program.

That said, I've just finished my first week. This week was Yard Training and next week is Road Training.

I'm one-on-one with my instructor who has been driving for years. Great guy and very knowledgeable.

10hr days and we go over paper logs, pre-trip and then driving skill sets everyday. Skill sets include:

Straight line back Rt turn Left turn Shifting (up, down) Alley back 90 back Offset back

And probably some others I'm forgetting.

Road training is next week then my CDL test.