Any Pepsi drivers out there?

now i work for pepsi americas here in toledo oh, our side loads average about 450 cases per everyday route. our drivers get paid salery plus commision.

 

Only 450 to 700 cases a day????

Crumps sake,...When I was a driver for a independent coca cola bottler (it's the same kind of work),.....I used to go out with 1000 to 1200 cases a day with 25 to 30 stops!!!!,..................

 

i was in the same boat..i've been going to their website a couple years now to fill out an application. never got anything, until yesterday..i got an email saying congratulations you are schedule for a phone interview!! i had the phone interview today, i guess i did ok, they're scheduling me for a face to face interview next week! i'm really grittin my teeth hoping they hire me!! they said i would start out at 10 dollars an hour for 10 hours a day..seems kinda low, but i will take what i can get at this point! wish me luck!!

 

good luck with the companies merging this past February next year u should get a bump in pay and since u have the face to face u more than likely have the job

 

i thought i was getting the face to face interview..according to an email i received yesterday..IF i'm selected, i will get the f-f interview!! i guess i can just pray and hope i get it!

 

you just might pbc as we are now called is trying this volume thing they want to push as much as they can heck when i started i just did fla now im in ga,sc,tn, wherever just to get product del so i think u have a good chance but keep praying just in case

 

I worked for Johnston Coca Cola in Cleveland, TN back in 97-98. Many of the routes were rural and long. I was a Relief Delivery Driver so I knew them all and usually got the leftover truck.

Pepsi does a better job loading the truck versus Coke. Everything you need is on the bottom instead of the top alot of the time.

On July 3, 1998, I got stuck with the longest route, busiest day and a straight truck overloaded to the top. Everything I needed was on the bottom and all the stops needed rotated. The route was neglected as there was a bunch of out-of-date stuff.
I set the record when I come in at midnight. That was my last day

But it's a great job if you are young. My friend that started with me is now a district manager and making killer $$$.

 

I have a few fiends who work or worked at pepsi dong the bulk runs to the bigger busier grocery stores and also do the route trucks. one frend has since quit, as stated on here before it is physically hard work. the older you get the more tired your body gets. my other friend still works for them. from what ive gathered from him over the years is that you definately need a good set of knee pads to get anywhere with the company. i had another friend a few years back working in the warehouse loading trucks through a temp agency for a few months, once there was a full time opening at the plant he had to fill out an application. mind you at the time he had already been working there for a few months. he failed to put his phone number on the application so they did not hire him. overall i hear the money is good as long as you mind your P's and Q's. good luck to anyone looking to work there.

 

I'm starting at Pepsi next week, up in the Great White North. $21/hr sounds good to me, but will I regret it? Only time will tell

 

Finished week 1 of training. Not an easy job for the unfit couch potato for sure, but easier than working on the oil rig that I came from.

Lots of lifting and wheeling, some 7 hour days, some 13 hour days. We have a couple of guys that are in their 50's that have been working for 20 plus years. Union contract is coming up in the fall, so hopefully a nice wage increase.

Home every night and weekends off