I have a question for you MBM guys?
Out of curiosity how many stops do you guys actually ramp off the truck with a two wheeler vs, just park anywhere in the lot and drive the pallet jack right to the restaurants back door?
Or and I know because I have seen it happen at some Olive Gardens you can drive the pallet right into the kitchen and unload right inside the kitchen. I know this goes on because I saw it with my own two eyes.
Also roller ramps I've seen MBM trucks at Red Lobster and Golden Coral set up the Roller Ramps and the driver stands in the trailer and just launches stuff down the ramp and the restaurant people grab it all and do what ever they do with it.
It does seem like MBM gives you guys a lot of options certainly you can throw cases much faster when the pallet is literally right at the back door of the place and you don't have to run back into the trailer to get it. Now look I know it's not perfect all the time, but just curious as to how you guys can go about all that. Like I said I do know you use ramps I've seen you're trucks at Hardys ramping things, off, but I know they also give you a couple more ways to skin the cat as well.
A question for MBM drivers
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Mike2633, Apr 26, 2015.
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MBM driver here to save the day.
All of the distro centers are different, hell until someone said something I didn't realize some centers still did the roller thing.
Most centers are liftgate oriented and the reason is that some of the chains (some you mentioned) we don't roll it in, THEY (the restaurant) contract is that they are to come and get it from the liftgate. It doesn't actually work this way in practice, basically you roll the whole pallet to their back door or something inside (as you've seen, I've done one or two that way) and the restaurant breaks down the pallet. You make less money per case but you don't do much work. Some of the chains are you roll it in on a two wheeler to whereever they want it. Pays more, but more work. At our center all our trailers are liftgate and I move EVERY pallet as close as i can to the door. The only ramps we have are for the side doors (not side up just to slide out the back like most food service trailers), they take forever to unfold and hook up and basically they suck. I try to never use one.
The slowest thing is someone counting in.
the 2nd slowest thing is you walking back and forth with a two wheeler, so the shorter that distance, the quicker you can unload the whole load.
why do you think I wanted to go with MBM? No running of ramps. I'm old, my knees can't take that. It's still hard work, but no ramp running.u4icwargasm and Mike2633 Thank this. -
Did I mention that the pallet jacks are electric? so you can actually move 2000lb pallets up curbs and such? (when they work). Some runs have to take a manual jack because their backhaul is so heavy, it puts them overweight.
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We had all electronic pallet jacks at the beer distributor no if and or's or but's about it, beer moves by electronic pallet jack and our bulk trucks pretty much all of them had lift gates and ran the same way you guys do. When we had drive through beverage places (brew throughs we call them in my neck of the woods.) We would drive the pallets right in side. Obviously if you're in a side loaders then it's all two wheeler. It's funny where I work we have 50,000 different products and every single product we have is moved by two wheeler and ramp. That two wheeler and ramp moves every product we have, wild when you think about it.
When I worked at the beer company the woman who worked the check out window asked us how we move product down the stairs (kegs) one of the drivers replied that, two wheel dolly moves every product in this warehouse. I never thought about it like that wild. -
the really strange part is some places can really move product (when the restaurant does the unloading). Mind you, it's all THEIR product, they don't have to learn 6 or 8 different chains and they know (or should) where it all goes.
Some places can knock down 400 cases an hour without thinking about it. I did one that ordered 710 cases (13 pallets) and I could barely keep up with them, took them 1 hour 10 minutes.
But most places, 3 guys unloading and one manager person counting and they still barely move 250 cases an hour. Heck I can move 250 cases an hour.
I really dislike the places where I don't get to wheel it in. Doesn't pay enough for the annoyance (and slowness) factor.
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