Truck Fleets the Back Bone of an Operation

@X1H

It payed really really good money! It was easy work to doing volume truck delivery to our market place grocery store chain. All the stuff came off with a pallet jack it was just pulling off pallets and bumping docks had 3-stops all key drops did them at night. What I did was worked Christmas Eve came home had dinner with the folks next day about 10-11am left my house went to our yard took a set of 28's to the warehosue grabbed my volume load and drove from PA back to Ohio did my 3 stops then parked the truck at our yard and transit took the 50' trailer back to the warehouse Monday night.

 

You know what's funny though one of my favorite fleets and I mentioned this is actually a non-refer fleet I recently decided that I like Dillard's the department store chain they run equipment that's kind of different for a big department store well heck most of those places just sub out to Swift or someone like that, but Dillards is there own and all they do is doubles with single screw sleepers.

 

It was volunteer I like to make hay when the sun shines as the old saying goes and if it pays real good which that run did, it was well worth my time. Plus I needed the experience. And as a matter of fact were doing just that feeding America! We have a lot of delicious treats and goodies at our grocery store chains we have these chocolate chip bloodies that are all ready pre-made from Sweet Street there soooo goooood I'm doing a Homer Simpson Slobber just thinking about them. I mean what other country on earth can you go to and get 30 lbs of mozzarella sticks either breaded or battered on demand! Just walk in and buy a whole case you guys should see all the stuff we carry we have everything I never knew how many different kinds of frozen pizza there are I mean holy cow until I started working for GFS!

 

And you know what's so funny about all that, when I first started driving not very long ago I was awful at shifting the worst and backing ugh there was a ton of room for improvement none of it came naturally I'll tell you that LOL! I failed my CDL Passenger Bus Test. I failed the pre-trip it's not that I didn't know it, but what happened was I forgot to mention about air pressure build up for the air break test or something I forget now they knew I knew it, but didn't say it out loud and ended up failing because of that.

Yeah everyone has there thing I like to learn a lot and pass on what I've learned. I don't know everything, but what I know I like to pass on.

 

You know when I first got into this someone said "It's only misery if you make it misery and anywhere I've worked I've tried to learn as much as I can while working there, a lot of people just clock in give me my paycheck and leave, which is fine nothing wrong with it, but your going to be spending time at work and on your career mine as well learn something.

With food all you read on these forums is Sysco sticks hard work etc etc etc extra board, blind route bad management etc etc and I'm not down playing that those people do not have legitimate grips because a lot of what they are saying is true however not all outfits are the same in fact even though these companies compete head on there are difference between them GFS, Sysco and US not all do business the same way there are differences in each operation Sysco and US Foods load there trucks in a similar manor, but when it comes to routing from what I have read US Foods and GFS are much much much more consistent on delivery times, but none of that's here nor there, I wanted to put a different twist on things and you know with some practice and patience going through a sever learning curve like I did trust me there was a time when I didn't think I was going to make it, but things change anyhow you work through the curve things get better and what I hope to show people is if you have the right tools to do the job it really really helps you get things done. Having proper tools is very important.