The Food Service Rant thread

oh good gravy,

This week I've been having a hard time getting up. This morning my alarm went off at 2am and it really didn't matter anyhow because of my 4th stop, but my alarm went off at 2am and I think I didn't leave the house till a little after 3:00am I clocked in at 3:30am and left the yard pretty soon after. Ended up getting out of my firs stop at about 4:30am then ran to my second stop got there 4:45am they were pretty heavy around 178 cases took a minute to off load them, thank goodness today the trailer was loaded pretty good, not that the loads have been awful, this week although the warehouse has done some things I don't fully approve of in the cooler loading department, but whoever loaded the truck today nailed it really good, so that helped a lot and it was good because those heavy cases of "tater babies" are hard to take out of the side door all day long.

I do a school system on Thursday that has 3 stops and each and every school in that system went for 100+ cases a stop. My first stop I rolled off 51 cases my second stop I rolled off 178 cases then my third was 6 cases and my fourth stop which didn't get there till 7am was 8 cases and then the schools went for 312 cases when you add them all up. I had 16 stops today, all in all I did alright got back to the yard late in the 1pm hour so it's not been all bad. This week the case count was defiantly higher then last week. I got paid from last week ended up doing okay more then my old route. I was $12.00 short of clearing $900 so suppose that's not to bad. This week hopefully I clear $900 should drove almost 100 miles today as well I was like 3-4 miles short of 100 miles ha-ha!

Anyhow tomorrow I have a cube of 654 or something so I don't know what that translates into case count wise, but what ever it'll deffinatly be in the mid to high 600s so should end this week with 3500-3600 cases.

 

They loaded my cooler the worst I have ever ever seen today the whole thing imploded in on it's self and about $390.00 worth of product went into the trash can. Made my day 1.5 hours longer. ARRRGGG!

 

There any type of feedback / accountability system for the loaders?

 

Lmao that's a good one!

 

Believe it or not yes. Every time we code something as either damaged by packer or buried by packer they fine that packer money out of there pay not a lot of money, but they do get fined.

When I sent the pictures to my boss he said he would forward them to the warehouse and they usually put pictures out there and talk about them before the shift starts. Actually I do think our bosses at the yard do send that stuff up the ladder I've heard it believe it or not. Now how long it takes for stuff to improve is usually sometime, but if it's bad and is causing cases to get damaged like yesterday and causing customers to not get what they ordered then it becomes a problem, because the way the company see it and rightly so is, we forget to deliver a case or do not deliver a case or the warehouse damages that case, now we have just lost the sale of that case to someone else and were not doing our job as a supplier.

 

Last Friday I went to put my ramp away and the welds on one of the brackets broke and I suddenly had a serious problem on my hand. I crawled under the truck and saw that the bracket was still attached to the carrier but the end that broke was hanging down to the ground.
I went to the Advance Auto that was next door and bought a roll of duct tape. I crawled back under and duct taped the bracket so that it wasn't touching the ground. I started working the ramp in until I only had four feet of it sticking out. I grabbed a pair of straps that I carry on the truck and ran the straps from the grab handle on the box through the grab handle on the end of the ramp and back to the box grab handle and ratcheted them down tight. With that secured I drove to the closest Penske. They said they couldn't weld it because their welder was crap plus they weren't able to weld aluminum. We were able to get the ramp tucked away like it was supposed to be and I finished the rest of the route climbing into the truck, tailgating product, climbing back down and carting it in. That turned into a 15 hour day.

 

Only place that is real strict is Mclane. Have a buddy that works for them. Loads are real organized. If it's unorganized at all the loader gets written up. Eventually fired if it keeps happening. But these guys unload from ground up. No pallets loads stacked to ceiling. Scoop and go.

 

Who do you work for Starbucks? Holy Diver next time bring it over to Certified Welding 9603 Clinton Road Cleveland, Ohio specializing in Stainless Steel and Aluminum welding. Would have had that ramp repaired better then new stronger to you would have been able to drive a fork lift up that ramp.

What a pain though.

 

Nah, Shelton's out of Michigan. I was in Fort Wayne, Indiana when it broke. It was fixed over the weekend and ready to go on Monday.

 

Does anyone have any feedback about sygma