Coca cola delivery truck

What's it like to work at Coca-Cola as a delivery driver? What do u do as a delivery driver? Are the trucks nice? Are the trucks mainly automatic or do they still use manual transmission trucks?

 

It's like unloading a flatbed of cinder blocks.
You drive to about 10 stores and stack off a % of your load.. roll them in.. let the folks count your inventory against your invoice.
Then, you move all of your OLDER cinder blocks.. put the new cinder blocks on the bottom... stack the old cinder blocks back on top of the new ones.. and go to the next stop and do it again.

I'm not kidding. It's for strong, young backs.
If you have a 500 case day, you can assume that you'll handle approximately 1200-1400 cases throughout the process.

The trucks are just plain Jane delivery trucks. Some auto.. some 5 speed with a 2speed axle.. some of the smaller tractor trailer rigs will have an Eaton 9spd in them.

 

the local delivery guys for either coke or pepsi, have to set up displays in the stores like walmart and such..ever seen a high wall for superbowl.>??

yup, they do it...at each store they go to....

good luck with that job.........

 

I don’t know what Coke or Pepsi you’ve seen but the ones I’ve seen(and worked for) don’t do that at all, that’s the merchandiser and Salesman’s job to do that. The driver for small format goes in and stocks and rotates cooler product. The large format guys drop off product with a pallet jack and roll.

 

To answer your question directly. It depends on the area and the Coca Cola branch you work for. Some have better equipment than others. You will have to get in contact with your local coke company and ask if they have automatics, manuals or a mixture of both. If you do small format, your day will consist of going to convient stores handcarting product or bringing it in with a cool lift system to the stores, getting it checked in, taking it to the cooler, filling and rotating stock. If you do large format you will be mainly backing to grocery store docks and getting whole pallets checked in and rolling, full service usually just fills vending machines.

 

Now, THIS is a better idea than the flea market thing if that's what you're interested in.

It's still not a good gig in my opinion due to all the B.S. and unloading involved. Although i think side-loader is not as bad.

But we'll talk more soon. Maybe on the weekends.

 

P.S.
The last beverage delivery truck i had was an automagic (and side-loader), but that is the least of your worries if you're going to do food/beverage delivery.

 

I used to work on a delivery truck going to restaurants. I really enjoyed it, and usually got a free lunch out of the deal. The only part I didn't like was the truck was a reefer so try rolling a heavy hand truck out onto a ramp while sliding on slick icy floor. Also in rain the job sucks cause your ramp gets so slick you may have some experiences of coming down on your arse trying to keep the hand truck from flipping at the bottom.
I might still be doing it though, except the company I worked for went out of business