Which one is harder: foodservice delivery or furniture delivery?

I used to deliver cocoa cola way back when they had glass 16 oz returnable bottles. It was work and would work you especially in 96 degree Florida heat , can't imagine trying to maneuver a 3-400 pound cart in ice and snow .

I know it was far less work than the food service jockeys though.

Later in life I owned 2 high end leather furniture stores .

Some of the deliveries to condos down here in Florida were a challenge to get some large sectionals upstairs and through the doors without damage, so I would meet the delivery guys other times my partner and I would do a out of town delivery .

There was at least 2-3 deliveries a week that sucked because of logistics.

 

Its still 80000 pounds gross.

Your choice. The theoratical Piano to the forth floor up the stairs of a NYC tenement or a half trailer into the door of a resturant checked off a box at a time?

The loads I hated were tiles. Off Containers. Unload into DC offices that sell tiles to fancy homeowners with more money than brains.

 

Furniture, I'd have to think, is way tougher, not so much the weight, but it's clumsiness to handle, and some wood stuff DOES weigh a ton. Food service is demanding, but pretty repetitious, like up and down stairs all day with a hand cart.

 

I think furnature was heavier than anything.

We had 10 foot spread axle dry vans loaded with Ethan Allen fine furniture in hardwood form at the factory out of Beecher Falls VT. The idiot I was I should have learned to run the river road south along the NH line rather than go back over the spine of Vermont. In those days the tractor did not weigh very much and probably had upwards of 50,000 if not more in that box.

 

It sounds like you won't like either option.
They're both strenuous work, any way you cut it.
If one grades 9 on the difficulty scale and the other is an 8.5, what's the real difference?

You either are willing to do it, or you're not.

I'd go food service.
At least that way you won't have Old Biddies claiming that you scuffed their wall, or got their carpet dirty, or complaining about their furniture a month after you left it.

The hard, physical activity gets easier fairly quickly. Your body adapts and you will get in better shape because of it, assuming you're not a total wreck to begin with. A little outta shape will tune right up. You'll be sore... and tired. But a couple weeks in and you'll feel great.
Probably lose 20-30lbs if you have it to shed. It'll just go POOF.

 

Furniture is easy, until they tell you it's a second floor, residential delivery!

 

I started in the 90’s with a family owned Pepsi bottler selling off the truck and I always left with a pallet of glass. Customers loved those tall 16oz 8pks but my God the were heavy banging a cart load of them up a set of stairs.

 

I stared with an Allied Van lines agent in Nov.'97(I was 23). They trained me to drive and got my A in Feb.'98. Worked there till Aug. '02. Started with a Food Service company in Aug.'02 and never looked back.

In my opinion, furniture is worse.