Any beer truck drivers on here???

I doubt you'll find many here as its hard work (Of course, I threw 10' drop tarps today) and in my neck of the woods you're lucky if you make 30k hauling beer or Pepsi. 20/hr is a fluke to your area.

 

I work for a Budweiser dist. in NY, one of the largest by volume in the country. The drivers are all union (except for me) and they are also salesmen. Many of them are making 65k+. I can tell you it is not easy pushing a cart with 30 cases of beer on it uphill, sometimes dragging you down hill, threw the snow. Most times its a real pain in the ###!

 

tell bud to get you a power jack.. we have them at pepsi

 

The brewery trucks have power jacks, the delivery trailers are the ones with like 5 or 6 roll up doors on the side not getting a jack in there!

 

its def hard work 300 pounds of beer on a dollie up stairs downstairs where ever they want it through snow #####y customers (apparently they must not drink beer!) but ya good work out almost to good bad for the joints in mn its 20 an hour as well but for a reason had a friend i saw on a route in iowa and he just quit to go to fed ex because his body hurt and he was like 24 or something most trucks are auto's and not alot of backing and the trucks are smaller than standard so you wont get alot ofpractice in a "big" truck but hell its a job in this ###### buisness! once again my superookie two cents feel free to smack me lol!

 

So they don't have to replace the transmissions twice yearly when inexperienced drivers destroy them.

 

In all seriousness, it might be a part of it, but the nature of the routes probably plays into it, as well. I'd imagine there's a lot of stop-and-go driving, and using an auto reduces strain on the driver, and reduces transmission wear, eliminates clutch plate wear, etc.