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FedEx Home Delivery Applies for HOS Exemption Division | Ground | National | Operations | Safety Health | Off The Clock | |

UPDATED 8/24/06: FedEx withdrew its HOS exemption application as of 8/16/06.  DoT posted FedEx’s letter on 8/23/06.  Drivers should continue to submit comments on HOS violations.  We will keep updating our Resource page.  END UPDATE FedEx Home Delivery submitted an application for an exemption for hours of service requirements for its drivers on July 10.  The Federal Register announced a comment period will run from July 30 until August 30, 2006.  The exemption application wants the Dept of Transportation to allow drivers who drive their delivery vehicles from their last delivery point to their home AND drivers who drive their delivery vehicles to their terminal to be declared as driving “off hours” and thus exempt from the hours of service regs.  The Teamsters oppose this application for exemption due to the possible pressure on drivers to work off the clock and in the interests of both the drivers personal safety and public safety.

FedEx, Chamber of Commerce Publications on Contractors Contractor Dispute | Lobbying | National | Operations | |

In May 2006, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a publication on “alternative employment arrangements” like on-call workers, temporary workers and - of most interest to FedEx - independent contractors.  FedEx CEO Fred Smith “echoed” the Chamber report just days after its release in a speech before Chamber members in Washington.  This coordination between FedEx and the Chamber of Commerce marks another low-point in the attempts to misinform the public and politicians on “indepdenent contractors.”