Beer truck drivers at work
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Mike2633, Nov 20, 2014.
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Looks like too much heavy work...I'm keeping my municipal job
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Nice video! You can tell it was made by a distributor and not by an actual driver. Way too many happy drivers and not enough real "day in the life" stuff the we beverage drivers have to deal with on a daily basis. I would like to see one a driver makes that shows real things like trying to push a loaded two-wheeler across a ice/snow covered lot(like I did all day today) or wheeling up and down steps. Also, people walking in a store right in front of you that see you have a loaded cart and can't bother holding the door for you. Also, stores that expect you to clean their walk-in cooler so that you can get a two-wheeler through to make your delivery or a power hungry store manager/receiver who makes you wait to be checked in while they finish what ever stupid non-important thing they are doing. I could go on and on, but it just gets me depressed about having to get up and go to work tomorrow.
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I have 1 stop on Thursday that's never where there supposed to be, one time it took me an hour to deliver 6 bottles of wine. What people also don't understand is there is such thing as a last delivery.
One time I had some convenience store on my list of stops and I didn't know anything about it and I get to it and the guys not there and it's 3:00pm in the afternoon. I call the guy leave him a message no answer finish my route and then went back to the store, guys still not there $150.00 order. I phoned management and asked to round trip it, they said go ahead bring it back in.
Later that day as I was checking out this fool starts blowing up my telephone like crazy, finally I picked it up and he said "You have a beer delivery for me." I responded with "I did have a beer delivery for you, but you missed your delivery time I can no longer help you." I then hung the phone up on him, I was not interested in his response nor did it matter.
Pretty much after the 3rd attempt your done, and getting skipped. Some of these customers need to be taught a lesson and once they miss delivery a couple times and the shelves are looking bare and there losing all the money to the store across the street then they might, just might start to learn. How the heck knows though a big section of the population now a days I swear is half brain dead, narcissism and look at me look at me runs so rampant it's hard to figure.
Like today I when I got back in I was talking to another driver who works the same side of town I do in fact I saw his truck at a social club making a delivery today while I was driving by. Any how he said that, that club he was waiting at forever and did all kinds of skipping around, but at the end of the day he said "How much back tracking am I supposed to do throughout the day?"
I said "You know back tracking really, isn't a good solution because you didn't solve the problem you just skipped around it and it was just still there and kind of screws you over all the same."
I tell you what though, if there was a redelivery fee like well we showed up and you weren't there or weren't ready or what ever and we had to come back that same day and it was even so much as $10.00 man those customers would be raising holy hell and if the company stood there ground on it, I bet attitudes would change real quick.Gearjammin' Penguin, SodaDriver, Shaggy and 1 other person Thank this. -
I know a beer truck driver, well, former beer truck driver that's fired now. Had a woman customer that made his life a living hell for now reason. Constantly screaming and yelling at him as she did all vendors. He was always calm and never said anything. Payback can be rough; he started shorting her a case of beer every week. He didn't keep it; he returned it to the warehouse and didn't mention it to anyone. Got away with it for a couple of years then was fired because no one could figure out where all that beer was that he supposedly delivered and she signed the bills. He didn't argue about being fired since he was relieved to leave that job.
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We get paid on commission as well so every case we deliver we get paid for, so I try to deliver every case I have. However now and then cases break or what ever it's rare to have a day without some kind of return or the sales department makes an error and sends to much, that pretty much happens all the time.
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This is what a local beer distributor looks like on the inside. This is the Miller distributor in Cleveland, Ohio where I live. That MGD truck in the video runs out in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. I used to do my companies version of that route and would run into that driver all the time he's a pretty cool dude.
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Did the same delivering meat. Had to clean out their freezer and put my stuff in and they were always "Too" busy to help. Finally got mad at a Dyers Restaurant in Pampa Texas and piled 70 boxes of ribs in front of the freezer door and left. Got everybodies attention I did.
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