Bud-weis-er

Good friend of mine (one of the ones who helped me with my decision to come back to the industry) worked for them here. Worked his tail off, made fair money, home every night. Didn't last but about 14 months in this heat. He had to unload everything himself with a hand truck, sometimes lugging it across parking lots of convenience stores and gas stations. It's hard work and it's nasty, hot work but it's work, something many people here don't have right now. They'll pay you $10.50 an hour loading trucks in the warehouse while you're going to school.

 

this is the first thing i have heard about bud doing school. you would think that they would only want seasoned drivers pulling that valuable freight around.

 

Depends on where your located. Where i am, the oilfield is snatching up all cdl drivers so people like coke and others are offering cdl reimbursement.

Theres harder unloading jobs than cases of beer. It still is physical though.

 

yeah you would think that, but they give there contracts to bottom feeder companies, stack the crap out of a trailer with little to no regard to load securement minus the driver throwing a couple straps across the back. and what i mean by that is high stacks, no air bags, minimal seran wrap, It almost seems like they are just happy with what makes it whole to receiver. Gotta treat beer loads like your hauling TNT.

 

i can't imagine being healthy. going from hot and muggy outside to a cold van back and forth.

 

Is this a local distributer you will be driving for or is it from the brewery? There is a difference between the two. Most distributerships are independantly owned so transfering may not be as easy as you think.

I would doubt he is going from hot to cold, most beer comes in warm. At least at the liquor store I worked at it did. There may be some delivering it into walk on coolers however. I imagine if this is delivery work he will be working off a side loader.

 

You read my mind.

Beer delivery via a side load is a lot of work.

 

Are you talking about A-B in Jacksonville, FL? They usually use outside carriers to deliver to their distributers. So it might be a job for a switcher, that might be able to transfer to A-B in VA.