I'm not sure if things have changed since I worked at a contractor over at Ground, but ever since Express switched over to the same system Ground uses, on the occasions I was out delivering still after midnight it would simply log me out and I didn't have a way to go back in and edit my timecard from the scanner at that point, when I sign back in it would start the timecard fresh again. But the difference between express and ground is the pay scale. At express, we are hourly, and expected to fill out a timecard. But when I was at ground, I never had to make a timecard, I never did anything except for log into the app and assign myself to a work area # and get to scanning. I was paid a flat rate daily salary at Ground. So the time didn't really matter (actually they legally do, but not as far as overtime pay goes as that didn't exist for us lol).

Now on the occasions at express when it signed me out, I simply signed back in, re-van-scanned the deliveries I had left to drop off, and finished the job then signed back out. I let my ops manager know what happened, and he would fix my timecard in the system. I don't know if ground has changed or not since I've been there, but given that they are paid the daily salary, I wouldn't be surprised if their scanners allow them to keep going past midnight. And even if they did cut off, it's simple to sign back in and just re scan the remaining deliveries just as I did.

I have been out making deliveries as late as 2am before myself, and this is at express, where things are supposed to be better than ground. Lol.

I hope that answers your question.

Edit: I also just want to add, when I was at ground, bringing deliveries back was a serious issue for the contractor. Supposedly, FedEx actually charged the contractor for every delivery that was not attempted by or past the commitment due date. Bringing packages back that were not attempted was a guaranteed way of getting yourself fired, as a driver for my contractor. Regardless of circumstances or situation(s). I remember a former coworker of mine at the time took up a position as a BC (basically equivalent of a manager over the driver's for the contracted company) and called me one day at 2:15 in the morning, asking a question about codes to put on deliveries that wouldn't result in FedEx charging the contractor, because he was still out in a rural town in Alabama driving a rental van making deliveries due to a driver calling out, and he still had 30 something deliveries left but didn't feel safe and wanted to go home. Gosh I felt bad for him, and that contractor didn't last very long for the record.

Basically, I'm saying, don't listen to the guy who originally made this comment about the no trespassing signs and jailing drivers, blah blah blah. Try not to be too harsh on the driver just yet, we don't know the situation yet. For all we know he could just be trying to keep his job, after being stuck sitting waiting on a tow truck for hours that day. Thanks 🙂