UNFI

Landed a job with Unfi about a year ago. I was really excited about driving for a natural foods company. They called me and welcomed me to the family. I worked at what is called a domicile driver, which means the loaded trailer comes out of the DC and you take it early to selected acounts. This company mostly carries health food. The expensive stuff you find in local co-ops or at whole foods. It was teamsters and the only thing they did for me was a decent wage. No overtime after 8 hrs. only after 40. I went through every shift with these guys and for a while was working nights and days every week for about 3 years. So much for caring about the safety of you're drivers! two nights as a shuttle driver and two days as a delivery driver. Talk about feeling like caa-kaa all week.
The company is only concerned about the bottom line. They would shove a huge load at you and you would have to figure out how to deliver it. It is a ton of backwork, several time a day you have to sort dairy pallets. Meaning 2 to 7 customers dairy would be stacked on a pallet and you have to sort it by numbers for each of the stops. They do this to add the most freight possible on the truck. It occurred to me over time that the warehouse just did not care how the truck was loaded, neither did management. They would constantly bury things which would lead to much excessive and frustrating work. You have to deliver frozen,dairy and dry goods at most of the stops. Some of the routes started really early, not considering driver safety whatsoever. I was promised they would give us motels, but were forced to sleep in filthy, cheap freightliner sleeper trucks, which were shared by many drivers. Their communication was horrible and the company had no comrodary and you really felt that they did not like you .Anyway I eventually became frustrated with this company and decided to move on. This is my opinion and this was my experience working out of Auburn, WA. Only about 1 in 10 drivers really liked this job in my opinion. So don't get fooled by a decent wage, stick with you're lesser paying job that you like.