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FedEx Freight to close 29 service centers

Move seen as efficiency drive

Mark Solomon
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FedEx Freight to close 29 locations, furlough another round of drivers (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload unit of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), will close 29 service locations in the U.S. as part of an ongoing efficiency drive.

The closures will occur by Aug. 13, the unit said Monday. The affected operations will be consolidated into other locations. The company is working with employees to find positions elsewhere in the system. It is unclear how many workers will be affected. There are 371 stations across the Ground system.

Separately, FedEx Freight will furlough an undetermined number of drivers for 90 days starting May 28 to adjust capacity with slowing demand. Eligible employees will be offered permanent transfer opportunities to other markets that have hiring needs, the unit said. FedEx Freight will maintain health benefits for the furloughed employees, the unit said.

This is a temporary workforce adjustment, and all furloughed employees will be recalled on or before Aug. 25, the company said.


There have been multiple driver furloughs at the unit since business began to slow months ago. The last was announced at the beginning of February. 

16 Comments

  2. John

    Two shipments in a row fed ex upped price 2.5X after delivery. Price quoted through them. I’ll never spend another penny with them.

  3. Larry Buck

    Here we go, the Joe Biden curse is moving right along. Great companies are letting workers go in an economy that is getting worse by the day. I wonder if the misled oblivious to reality voters are realizing, the damage they’ve caused.

  4. Ryan

    Express and ground are merging. It all won’t happen by 2024. We are being told at least 2027 or longer to integrate everything. Its not even a merger really Just shifting freight to ground or from ground to express. Fedex is still dealing with that TNT merger thats become a disaster. Just like this will be. It will not work the company hopes it will. Looks good on paper. Thats about it.

  5. Anders Sjostrom

    The problem is their end service, in my area it’s so bad, as when we order from companies like Amazon or Chewy and many other companies, we ask who their shipper will be.
    If the answer is FedEx, we cancel the order.
    It’s a small action that slowly will hurt FedEx, and hopefully, FedEx will figure it out and take action…

  6. Harold Eugene Johnson

    I ran hard, and on-time, for years. Contracted Service Provider preferred foreign labor which produced an unexpected problem, so I had to go. Fortunately, the Contracted Junk Owner died, soon after.

    Thanks for posting, some are in deep scatology. Sincerely hope conditions do not improve.

    Class of 1977

  7. J. Fraley

    Maybe the drivers should check with Amazon. They seem to have the transportation systems figured out. I also think the government should consider selling US Postal Service to Amazon.

    Good luck to anyone needing a job. You might check out US Foods.

  8. Robert P.

    To Bob M.; get it right, most of the time it is FedEx Ground NOT Freight, the ground drivers are contractors and are always in a hurry.

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Mark Solomon

Formerly the Executive Editor at DC Velocity, Mark Solomon joined FreightWaves as Managing Editor of Freight Markets. Solomon began his journalistic career in 1982 at Traffic World magazine, ran his own public relations firm (Media Based Solutions) from 1994 to 2008, and has been at DC Velocity since then. Over the course of his career, Solomon has covered nearly the whole gamut of the transportation and logistics industry, including trucking, railroads, maritime, 3PLs, and regulatory issues. Solomon witnessed and narrated the rise of Amazon and XPO Logistics and the shift of the U.S. Postal Service from a mail-focused service to parcel, as well as the exponential, e-commerce-driven growth of warehouse square footage and omnichannel fulfillment.