Pros
I work heavyweight department. We do deliveries and pick ups. It’s like being a Courier except not even close to the amount of deliveries they do or pick ups. The job is fairly easy a lot of of downtime. You usually get the same area. Sometimes you drive straight trucks sometimes you drive tractors with a pup trailer. There’s a lot of freedom on the road.
Cons
Sometimes the warehouse can be a little stressful. A little pressure on leaving the building sometimes when you’re trying to figure out your route your pressured to sign off on certain paperwork or you have to do these Fedex learning center trainings. they want to discuss things with you but when you’re at the warehouse you’re trying to figure out how are you going to start your day so it can be distracting or frustrating. Also when dispatch is messing up or they have to be covered because they’re on vacation or if a Fedex Dispatch retires it can be a mess. Dispatch can really dictate your day. You’ll get the wrong pick ups. You’ll try to message them, but yet there’s a camera in your truck literally watching you and you’re not allowed to touch your Leo, which is the scanning device that gives you the Messages. It can be overwhelming trying to figure things out while you’re on the road on the way to a stop and they’re sending you the wrong things and if you don’t message them in time, it ends up being your problem. But as I mentioned the camera. That can be annoying as well. It records whenever you look down and look away for too long if you don’t have your seatbelt if it feels like you drive too fast or you’re driving too close, even if you’re in a rotary. The camera can be very annoying, but it is not as bad as the Courier cameras. Also, they can be annoying about hours sometimes. Start cutting down on hours. I feel like there’s more hours being a Courier. But still it’s better than the other RTD position, which are the CDL drivers that drive from the airport to the stations. We are the same title, but we have a very different job and we work in a different building next to them though. If you’d like doing deliveries and pick ups the RTD position in heavyweight is it a good fit?