Why do FedEx trucks have different descriptions like “ground”? I can’t think of the others, but I know the trucks show the company names in different colors. One truck even has a puppy dog on it for home delivery, IRC. Yet, it’s all ground… so what gives? (Do some trucks fly?) - Jinx 
Scroll down, and note all the FedEx services, which include FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Home Delivery, FedEx Freight, and so on. They are all different levels of severice, different shipping times, different prices.
Ground service is like that the whole way. Other services involve moving packages to a FedEx hub, putting them on a plane, flying them to the destination hub, then putting them on trucks for final delivery. Makes sense, as you can’t have a FedEx helicopter touch down in your front yard to drop off your 2-day or overnight package.
It really started when FedEx bought RPS and re-painted all their trucks to be FedEx Ground.
Ground uses only trucks, Regular FedEx uses planes to get the packages from airport to airport.
If you are overnighting something from LA to NYC you are using air. If you don’t mind waiting a week or so, it can go ground.
Obviously, from the airport to you a truck is used in either case. 
No, but FedEx realistically runs two or even three services. Basically, everything that has a red and blue FedEx logo on it went onto a plane and got delivered, well, express. The FedEx Ground is delivered via truck no matter where it’s going, even though for close locations the FedEx Ground can be just as speedy as the FedEx Express.
It used to be that FedEx put things on airplanes and UPS put things on trucks. Then FedEx got into the “put things on trucks” market by acquiring RPS and American Freightways. These got re-organized into FedEx Ground and the airplane division into FedEx Express. (Yes, that means Federal Express Express.) FedEx Ground is cheaper, but slower. FedEx Home Delivery is a division of FedEx Ground for residential delivery.
FedEx Freight is for shipping large things that don’t necessarily require an entire truck. They are mostly a B2B service.
FedEx also acquired Roberts Express and re-organized them into FedEx Custom Critical. These guys do things like hazardous chemicals, munitions, kidneys, gold, and other items requiring special treatment.
Other parts of FedEx’s B2B empire include FedEx Trade Networks and FedEx Supply Chains (re-organized from acquisitions of CJ Tower, and Caliber Logisitics.) They also have a dvision for shipping cars.
There is also the mysterious “gray” FedEx division. These guys don’t have trucks but the logo appears on some employee’s uniforms. It turns out that the gray division just provides IT and HR services to the other divisions. (I know because I asked a gray-FedEx-uniformed-person who I saw in a Kinko’s once. Oh yeah. FedEx owns Kinko’s.)
You simply failed to notice the black truck.
Another company FedEx acquired to form their Freight business was Viking.
Ultimately, FedEx is looking to build the name FedEx into a name that you’ll think of when you need to get something from Point A to Point B, regardless of how fast or what it is. Whether it’s using FedEx Home to ship cookies to your kid adjusting to dorm life, a contract that has to be on your attorney’s desk by 9AM, a printing press via Freight, international cargo shipments, Custom Critical kidneys, whatever. They even have instant service - go to FedEx Kinkos and fax something.
As has been pointed out on the boards numerous times, I vote best logo ever. The 'subliminal => Arrow => in their logo is beyond clever.
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The FedEx Ground trucks (and pick and delivery systems) are owned and operated by contractors. From the FedEx Website:
"Because unlike other small-package, ground carriers, the FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery force is made up entirely of entrepreneurs – men and women who own their own vehicles and have made an investment in acquiring their own work areas. "