The Food Service Rant thread

Ice companies to don't for get the ice companies.
http://carolinaice.com/

 

Nice dude, thanks again. Such a helpful community, I really appreciate it!

 

Alright Monday's done, everything today I guess went fine, but it was a big project today glad it's over ha-ha with the work week underway we charge ahead. Tomorrow is snowy and I've got my biggest route of the week tomorrow I'll be home at 1800 probably. Cold today cold out now. My truck is filthy covered in 3" of road salt. Oh well what can I do? Can't wash it at the yard because it's to cold. Good thing I put another coat of wax on it before winter time.

 

Alright here we go, Tuesday 1-12-2016's "Cross Town Beat Down" Is in the books. What a day haven't had a good 14 hour day in a little while. First off today was cold and snowy so that sets the tone. Second off we had system wide transit breakdowns and failures. Our yard has 4 transit trucks that run out of it. 3 of our 4 trucks had mechanical issues last night/ early in the morning. We had 2 tire blow outs and 1 turbo hose blow out (that was my truck) It was very sad and caused delays. Anyhow I got my trailer and truck that I was going to drive because my regular truck is in the shop for preventative maintenance. So instead I got to drive a middle of the road 2007 Volvo with almost half a million miles on it, that truck was okay on the highway, but kind of stunk in the city. I like my regular Volvo better.

Anyhow got my trailer almost 2 hours late, then the snow was snowing. So a boss from the yard hopped in a company cargo van and met me at my first two stops to help me get those done and took a couple small stops off of me. Then I was told good luck. I then set out into the snow and spent a good solid 1.5 hours on I-77 making it back into the city. Between fighting the snow and everything else you fight when you're running late it was a real up hill battle. The load I had was okay it wasn't great, but wasn't the worst either although the freezer was packed a little odd and kind of shabby.

Anyhow at 5:00pm one of our transit drivers calls me to see what's up I told him I'm still out turns out the guy who does the down town route on Tuesday was also still out and our transit driver wanted his phone number so he could call him see if he was doing alright. I still had 2 stops left at 5:00pm. I got to my last stop at 5:30pm. I think I ended up getting back to the yard at 6:00pm maybe 10 minutes after 6pm to be exact. So anyhow 16 stops and 17,000+ lbs all managed to come off though today it all came off. Just took a really long time. As I had all kinds of obstacles in my way. Almost had a couple times where the snow got the truck stuck it wasn't too cool. My last stop I had to get up a pretty big hill, I made it, but it was close the truck was struggling and just slipping and spinning. You get some ice pack and packed snow and no weight on those axles and those wheels start to spin.

 

Snow sucks.

 

hey mike do all of your customers take care of the sidewalk for you when it snows/has ice on it? Wendy's never did for us, I always made sure I had a shovel and salt

 

Haha. Most of my customers don't have enough sense to shovel before they walk on it and pack it down. I chip up what I can with a metal shovel, then dump copious amounts of salt. I try to make as big a mess as I can, tracking it everywhere. And try to take as many different paths thru the store as possible. And then there are the ones that squeegee mop water out the back door.

I have two out of ten that do a nice job. Well, one for sure. The second gets three deliveries a week, and I do the third. Might be the other driver that cleans it up.

 

Not to many of my stops seemed to be concerned about shoveling or having me track in snow and ice. I figured if they are not worried about it then neither am I.