I been driving for 4.5 years now. Most of my experience has been Over the Road, with a short stint as a Walmart dedicated driver with Swift. This past year was with a small reefer company out of South Dakota. Finally hit the point that I dont want to live in a truck anymore so I left OTR to move from New Mexico to Phoenix, Arizona.
This isnt a thread where I am necessarily asking questions about it. I have already researched the heck out of this and made the decision to do this. So I making this thread to share my experience with this side of the industry and hopefully give someone a good idea of what this is like.
I have interviews with Mclane Foodservice and Shamrock Foods this week. Hope to be starting work next week. Been off for a month and I am getting bored. Hoping this thread is helpful for anyone that is OTR and thinking about getting out of it. I'll be your guinea pig so to speak.
New to Foodservice
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by GladhandSW, Sep 7, 2020.
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Don't know anything about shamrock but if you stick it out at McLanes you'll be making 90-100+ a year in no time
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- Look forward to your adventures. Good luck. It is my understanding that there is some good money to be made in that end of the industry
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Edit: Being new to food service don't go all superman right out of the gate, don't F up your back. Give it a couple of months and you'll learn how to handle the big cart loads with ease. With time you'll figure out how to be efficient. The 1st few months will be ####ty but if you get put on the same routes you'll be surprised how much quicker you'll get. Everything from how you set up the trailer/ramp combo to how you set down your stacks in the freezer/coolerLast edited: Sep 8, 2020
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Some people like the hard rubber tires (I liked em better for going down stairs, less bouncy.) IMO if your run has multiple places with stairs I'd get the hard tires. Where i worked they would swap tires for you if you wanted. If your ramp has fairly tall sides rub one of the tires on the rail going down. It helps a lot to slow you down. And if it goes over let go LOL don't let take you with it
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Interview with McLane went well. Said they would contact me by the end of this week. Like what I heard. They do a mix of lift gate and ramp work. The easiest run being Jack in the Box. Those guys just drop pallets at each stop. Still interested in Shamrock. Will gauge my choices after the interview with them.
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Good luck !
Please take care of your back and wear good shoes ; don't get hurt .Texas_hwy_287 and GladhandSW Thank this. -
Also , Phx is one of the best cities for local trucking . You have tons of options if food service doesn't work out (51st & Buckeye especially)
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