RDP Food Service Columbus,Ohio's Finest

Have any of you guys out in Columbus ever seen RDP pulling doubles? They must have some kind of doubles operation. I can't believe they load two 28' routes and a straight truck route all palatalized in a 36' trailer and unload that trailer at some kind of cross dock at there yard.

Anyhow do they have converter dollies at there warehouse? I got to believe they have some kind of doubles operation.

 

At 5:28 seconds in this video you see @F150Jim driving away from the warehouse with a load full of pizza.

 

I don't know I know RDP doesn't pay the highest, but and I have mixed feelings about working for small family companies, I'll be honest, sometimes working for a big company where your just a number does have it's advantages meaning if you show up and do your job correctly you can get lost in the crowd and management will leave you alone.

Where as a small family company with 15 trucks the owners of the company have the ability to freak out over everything and ride your behind harder or maybe in a different way I would say.

However, individual results may very, but RDP probably while the pay is on the low side probably isn't a bad place to take a try at and because there small and seem to always be hiring, you can probably climb the totem poll there fairly easily and probably if you like doing stuff get to do everything from run routes, to grab back hauls to pull doubles and probably even work int he warehouse.

I would venture the reason they hire all the time is because the pay is a tad low and I'm sure there managment knows it's a tad low. There not Sysco there not GFS there not US Foods or even Haserot they are much smaller then all those, but just big enough to be able to afford the equipment and staff they need to do the accounts that come there way.

 

Thanks it's much needed because without that I'm stuck eating left overs for diner again!

 

It's right next door isn't it I knew that was the place, turns out there an RDP customer.

 

I know I've been by there warehouse there nestled in the corner near the railroad tracks. Google maps there lot isn't real is not much to write home about pretty small a bunch of junk along the fence line along the north of the property. They were defiantly stretching for room there, They have maybe 3 straight trucks and 10-12 tractor trailers there and one converter dolly.

Here is a friendly quote I got off the internet from an OTR driver:

EZPZ TRANSPORTATION LLC
12 months ago -
★★★★★
Truck/Trailer docking require special skills not enough space to back in 53' "most likely off side backing". Receiver attitude OK. Receiver charges Lumper fee to unload cargo which is around $80 as of 11/20/15

 

Turns out RDP does a lot of the fancy high end trendy places, who knew? You would have thought US or Sysco would have been to all those places, for some reason restaurant owners get attached to certain suppliers and can't wean them selves off of them. US Foods is like that, I know of a couple accounts that we at GFS got from US Foods kind of, we kind of got them, meaning they were 100% US Foods and now there 75% GFS and 25% US Foods, but the owners of the places will never kick US Foods out 100%. I only know of one nursing home we do that got rid of US Foods 100% in favor of us at GFS.

As far as RDP goes, they do a surprising (to me at least) amount of the trendier places in Columbus. Late Night Slice said they liked RDP because they are local and accessible. Like I said before RDP probably isn't a bad company to work for there just small time and the pay is kind of on the low side and I hate to say it, because yeah your probably going to make $20-$30K or more a year at Sysco, GFS or US Foods.
However some people don't do good at big companies and you might have more options to do stuff at RDP then you would where I work, per-say although GFS to be fair has let me do a great deal, I've done it all at GFS however any more, I'm more of the exception then the rule.

The thing I don't know about RDP is, how heavy there routes are. I don't know if they are one of these cube every single trailer we have out to the limit everyday like GFS used to be. GFS used to run everyone to the limit especially here in Cleveland, however management changes and things have toned that back some, there really aren't to many 25,000lbs routes on the sales service side any more. Usually 20,000lbs is the heaviest any more.

I can't believe RDP is running 25,000lbs routes they don't even have twin screw tractors, and plus there palatalized loads which just eats up space like crazy, palatalized mixed food load in a 28' trailer 1/2 your available cube goes away, now granted though there customer base at RDP is mostly commercial accounts pizza and everything pizza shops order is heavy nothing is light. Unlike us at GFS we do a lot of schools and schools are a mixed bag heavy freezer, but the dry section is mostly chips and lighter stuff like that.

Unlike RDP who's dry is going to be oil, 6-10 cans, dressings, sacks of heavy flour that tend to break open and spill everywhere and make a huge mess and obnoxious pizza boxes and then you would get into lighter stuff like paper goods and all the stuff for to go containers and they might have some chips and stuff, but not like we do at GFS.

There cooler would be a mixed bag of heavy beef, chicken, and cheese lots of cheese, produce, and other meats and produce heavy whipping cream which is the base ingredient of Alfredo sauce.

Now there freezer that could be a total mixed bag and could get heavy, it would be chicken fingers, appetizer type foods, probably some dessert items and then you would get into pizza dough probably boxed.

There was a company out of Sandusky, Ohio Fedderson Pizza Dough they are a pizza dough manufacturer for places that do not have room to make dough in there shop and there small company maybe 1-2 straight trucks , however there showing up as permanently closed now, so they may have gone out of business. However there loads of frozen pizza dough were always going to be heavy, because essentially they were shipping cases of rocks.

At any rate I can't believe though that RDP is running way way way heavy I would figure there routes are probably 15-16,000 with the occasional 20-25K route with a 36 ft trailer. There straight truck routes are probably 10K.