Food Lion Delivery Driver/ Adusa/ Delhaize

I know a few guys in Butner. They’re claiming 6 figures. Some run from Butner to another DC and back, multiple trips a day most times, and others run a sleeper and go out to the further DC’s. Then one of them delivers to multiple stores out towards one section of the state and comes back daily when empty. None of them have a M-F schedule but some of them eventually get worked around to having one day off on the weekend occasionally. They’re all claiming 6 digit incomes but they’re all working 60-65 or more hours a week and a lot a lot of weekends.

I’m intrigued by the grocery business, I’m in LTL and have never done anything different. If the hours weren’t so long and eternal weekends that seem inevitable I would go for it as I don’t live far from Butner. But working 12 or more hours a day just isn’t for me, give me 8 and let me skate.

I have heard from multiple folks I know there that the management at that facility caters to one certain group of people and if you aren’t in the clique determined by a certain physical attribute then you will be treated as a lesser human being by management and the clique.

 

I understand that. I have been fortunate to have danced around the layoffs my entire LTL career, I started in the summer of 08 ironically enough and have never been laid off but we have definitely been through some lean lean times for sure, times where I had to really put in a lot of personal side work to make it. It seems like most of trucking is long hours no matter what sector it is, I finally got enough time in to bid on a run that’s 475 miles one way (Estes) that I can complete in less than 8 hours normally but I understand that’s a rarity in trucking all together. My dad put in 22 years driving at Winn Dixie when I was growing up and we didn’t see him as much as I wish we could, back when they were in Raleigh. If they were still there I’d more than likely be there. Trucking gives and takes away, such is life.

 

I luckily am able to hold it for this years bid cycle which lasts a year. I will admit it is getting boring as I’m 6 months into it but I know when I’m coming and going. I miss the variety of the extra board and city but with a young family this is my best Avenue for now.