Pros
-If you are hired by a decent contractor and stick around for a while, you can get decent pay and benefits, including paid holidays and vacation time, however...
Kontras
-Contractors increasingly unwilling to pay bonuses or give raises. -ESG madness -Drivers shafted through independent contractors' capitulations to FedEx corporate, so the so-called "contract" is a growing moral hazard. -FedEx-employed "loaders" only responsible for "making packages available", whatever that means (it doesn't mean loading the truck properly, obviously). -Load quality is non-existent. If you want an orderly load, you'll have to unload your truck and reload it properly before you start your route. This means you have to wait for the loaders to finish making a mess and get out of the way because you need the room: expect to leave at least an hour late every day. -DRO system is broken beyond all repair, meaning... --Scanner map often does not register stops that are in the manifest. --Map pins often overlap each other for multiple stops at the same location, so you don't know there is more than one stop until you deliver one. --The routing algorithm is garbage (has you passing up stops and doing them later, going in unnecessary circles, going the wrong way on one-way streets, etc.), so you'll have to plan your route yourself anyway. --It uses "vision" numbers on stickers placed on packages to indicate where they go on the truck (and where you should be able to find them). The stickers are often missing, or they are the wrong stickers, or there are multiple stickers (from previous days--so, different numbers), etc.