Pepsi bottling ventures

Delivery specialist? Is that what they are calling them now?

There's sidebays drivers
There's van drivers
There's transport drivers
There's vending

Which one?

 

Well, first you start off as a helper. You help drivers unload and delivery product and stock the shelves.

You move up to relief drivers which u cover routes if the driver is on vacation or sick. If everybody works, u just stay a helper

You get your own route. Maybe 10-20 stops a day. Digging in pallets trying to get the right order and delivery it to gas station, liquor store and sometimes big stores like piggy wiggly, walmart, jewels, all on a dolly. Lot of inner city stores have basement storage and you have to put them where the customer wants it. So bumping down stairs (or upstairs ) with Atleast 200 lbs on the dolly.

 

I worked on the vending side for a little over a year. I was based in Las Cruces, NM and my route was Silver City and Deming. My day started at 0400. Drive to the warehouse by 0500. Get my computer and load my snacks (I did soda and snacks). The loaders handled the soda loading the night before. Then on the road by 0600. Usually ran my route from 0745 to 15-1600, unless I had to be back for a meeting. Then back to the warehouse by 1700-1800. Process my paperwork, drop my money bags in the safe. If I was lucky, I was home by 1900-2000.

I was on salary/commission. I made a base pay of $450/week plus commission. My commission was $.01 per unit. Depending on how much I busted ###, that could add about $200-400 to a paycheck, especially from my concession customers who bought things from me in bulk.

My hospital machines made the most money, nothing for people waiting in the Emergency Room to do but eat.

 

I was a beer guy, but same exact job. Get up early, warm up the truck and GO! If your in a side loader you'll go to your accts and run around like a loon with your hand truck and get the store loaded as fast as possible, typically top off the coolers and rotate the backstock. Get back and go home. If your on Bulk/Grocery you just bump docks, check in put your pallets in their spot and leave. SOME terminals combine the bulk and convenience routes, which kinds sucks. Doing beer I mad around $19/hr plus $0.10/case commission. Assuming Pepsi in your area is Union, you'll also get OT after 8hrs and have awesome benefits. It can be a lot of work but you'll make good money and if your in a side loader you'll earn a nice set of abs too.

 

Most of the bulk trucks are 9 & 10 speeds and most of the side loaders are autos. You can get an occasional older 8 speed on the side loaders- but it's rare.

You won't see bulk in the beginning- unless you're at a smaller plant. Bulk is cake work and the higher seniority guys take that. Bulk is hourly- in my area it's $25-26 per hour plus time and a half over 8

The sideloaders are good money but a LOT of work. $100 per day plus 26 cents per case (average 550 cases per day) and 7 cents per empty shell you pick up You get variable rate overtime (VROT) for anything over 8 hours. VROT is confusing but it ends up being around $14 per hour extra.

Basically, it's about $250 per day- minimum. If you work Saturday it's only bulk and that's all time and a half.