Any SuperValu drivers out there? (Hopkins, MN/Fargo, ND)

i go to the Hopkins and Fargo locations often, and from what i see, they do have a few O/O that pull for them as well. Ie'm thinking it must be to stores way out there in the middle of nowhwer

 

Okay, I'll try to cover everything. Lol.

I was on call for approximately 6 weeks before I got a regular schedule. I usually had plenty of time to get to the DC for work, but they did call once at midnight for a 4:00am start. Apparently a guy called off and they needed the run covered, so I took it. I wanted to make a good impression and I was (and still am, sort of..lol) committed to the job.

My DC is not paid strictly by the hour, but I believe Minneapolis is all hourly pay. I'm paid for EVERYTHING I do and I get time and a half on my off days. For instance, if a certain run pays $250 and I run it on one of my days off, I make $375. Not bad at all. I have averaged around $1700-1800/ week all summer.

The customers do ALL of the stocking, we are required to assist the store in the unloading process, which means walking beside the guy or gal with the powerjack and making sure nothing falls off. Sometimes the pallets are too high to clear the door and you may throw a case of paper towels off to the side. Trust me when I say it's really not a big deal. Cake job for sure.

MOST of the trailers have 1 or 2 stops, 10% or less of the loads will have more than 2. Occasionally you'll see a 4 stop run but usually 3 of those stops are just overflow that wouldn't fit on the regular trailer. Again, not a big deal.

We do backhaul our own product from various frozen, cold, and grocery warehouses. We will also go to the actual manufacturers to retrieve loads. I think we currently only do 2 "weird broker" type loads, but they're easy. We pick up Pepsi off one of our Ohio loads and take it to another Pepsi facility. We also pick up jarred Peppers and take them to another distribution company down the road from our facility. I've done the Pepper run and it's a piece of cake. I hear the Pepsi deal is also easy, but I've never done it.

I started a thread about Supervalu when I first started and was on call. I'll post the link below with this comment : I make a lot more money per day than when I first started. I originally thought 60-65k/year. Now I'm thinking 80-85. But please understand that I'm greedy and I work most every chance I can. Hope I helped ya!

I can't get the link to post, search for Chronicals of Grocery Hauling in the LTL section of this forum.

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...-forum/244607-chronicles-grocery-hauling.html

 

I've also seen pictures of their new Pro Stars, they look nice . Slip seating sucks, I'm fortunate that I drive the same truck everyday and I don't share it with anyone.