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Hi All:

I have seen UPS and WalMart drivers at the PSL but never a Fed Ex Driver. Until this morning that is.

While taking my mom's 10 Prius to Milwaukee's Mitchell for the fight down to Dallas, we paced a FedEx driver about 2 to 2.5 seconds back for over 25 miles while NB on I-94 just north of the IL Border. He was DWL, and hovering around 55 mph for most with the PSL of 65 and minimum of 45. In the Construction zones w/ PSL of 50 mph, he dropped her down. It was also the first FedEx truck with the aeroshields under the trailer. All in, this guy had game and was probably pulling 7.5 to 8.5. We had a nice 10 mph tailwind and the Prius pulled 90.9 mpg on an 80% highway commute.

Really nice to see a Fed Ex driver driving sanely as in the Chicago area, they are about the worst offenders in most cases at 12 to 15 over the 55 mph PSL's.

Wayne

I guess that makes one. I've been doing a lot of cycling lately (for fitness...maybe we'll talk about commuting next spring) and residential FedEx drivers make me more nervous than any other group. Way too much speed, way too little attention to anything outside the truck.

I get passed quite often in the morning by a Fed-Ex semi pulling a tag trailer. I'm running 55mph in a 55 mph speed limit.

As a UPS employee I take special notice when a FedEx or UPS feeder passes me. The UPS drivers invariably pass with plenty of room, never tailgate, and even when I flash my lights as an indication of them being clear to move over they still remain in the left lane until there is about a 2 second gap between their trailer and myself. There has been one time when a UPS driver did get right on my bumper and stayed there for a few seconds.

FedEx drivers are quite the opposite. Get right on my bumper, will pass after about 10-20 sec of tailgating, then zip passed me. Quite honestly I get nervous whenever I see that FedEx logo on a semi in my mirrors.

Around here, both companies are cowboys. I was on a four lane this morning in a 55 mph zone that changed to a 65 mph about 5 miles ahead. I was passed by a UPS truck in the 55 mph zone and I'm pretty sure he was at about 65 mph already. When it changed to 65 mph, he disappeared.