FedEx Ground

I actually was in the corporate safety of the Federal Express.

Back before they purchased the RPS, it became FedEx Ground, and of course American Freightways, that became FedEx Freight.

So...

Was in that industry for quite a few years and then went into traditional trucking, everything from dry van to LTL.

You sign up through a portal called Fastnet, you get approved, and suddenly you're plugged into the FedEx machine.

You get program pricing on FedEx Express and FedEx Ground.

You get discounts on parcels shipped on your own FedEx account.

Drop-off incentive checks and fee and surcharge waivers.

You can't just bolt FedEx drop-off onto your nail salon to pull in traffic.

FedEx wants dedicated shops, not amenity counters.

Second, and this is the one that makes people's eyebrows go up, you must accept FedEx Express and FedEx Ground packages dropped off by FedEx account holders at no charge.

No fee.

Now, before I go too much farther, I do have to read a quick disclaimer for you.

So Rock Consultant is not endorsed by and is not recommended by Federal Express Corporation, FedEx Ground, or Amazon.

Rock Consultant is not sponsored by, is not approved by, is not associated with, and has no connection whatsoever with Federal Express Corporation, FedEx Ground, or Amazon.

So after the legal disclaimers are out of the way.

So one of the things that I am trying to do right now, which for anybody who's... done webinars before the exciting thing is always technology uh so we're trying to get our guest into the webinar she's floating in panelist land right now and we're trying to get her in so um we're working i've got people in the back end working to get amy in here um and for those of you who don't know amy she is um One of our, you know, she's a bit a large contractor in the space.

Um, so we could ship a big giant box filled of ma- full of master cases of snacks directly to the food service operator, um, from two locations, which makes it easier, cheaper, more efficient for that small snack brand to only have to ship to two distribution centers.

And we hit 86% of the population in the United States within two days using FedEx Ground service and the rest on day three.

So that allows us to be timely and cost efficient, um, doing it that way, and it was an interesting solution that we were able to do to, to help.

All right.

So I figured what, what better thing to do than go learn about cattle and, um, go to Ohio State.

So packed a bag from small town, maybe four or five hundred people, I'd say, and went to Columbus, and I didn't wanna burden my th- my parents with paying for college, so I went to school full-time and then worked at this, this company called FedEx Ground in the evening, unloading trailers.

Um, had a farming background, so I was good, I was good at, um, unloading, throwing hay bales, big shoulders.

So they, they said, "Yep, we'll hire you." So I did that through college, uh, pay for school, pay for, pay for my truck that I had, and then, uh, finished up school.

So student loans are starting to show up.

What are you gonna do? You, you gotta pay the bills.

So Fe- this, this company called FedEx Ground needed some help in Cleveland with delivering packages.

The internet was starting to pick up.

Okay

... um, our FedEx Ground driver used to be his personal assistant, and would drive him around.

Wow.

So he would come in and he would say, um, uh, what was, uh, what's Earnest's real name? Jim Varney.

And so I was a cook there.

And then after that, I got a job at FedEx Ground as a delivery driver.

And so I would have those two jobs for a while before I decided to just go all in on the hobby side of things and say, hey, let me try it out.

Yeah.