The Food Service Rant thread

You ever get customers that order like way to much and then go "Oh my goodness are you still bringing stuff in?"

 

Yes. Some of my stops get over 800 cases especially around the holidays.

 

anybody ever deliver milk here?

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/milk-delivery-non-bulk.313282/

 

800 cases that's like an A load after that's off how many more stops would you even have 1-2? You're out in California and I've heard they have goofy length and weight laws I know MBM on Carl's JR out there does have some 28' trailers running around and that's not to to common for MBM out here in the Great Lakes.

 

I deliver two different chains in AZ. My smallest load is four stops, 3 of about 150-180 and one that's always 600+. Other days it's between 5-7 stops in a 48 ft. trailer

 

We have new peterbilt days cabs at work, drove one today and absolutely did not like it. It's an auto, even when I feather the gas in reverse it jerks violently. I literally slammed into the dock doing a backhaul. Has no torque, when at a red-light it takes a good 2 minutes to get with the flow of traffic.

Has a really bad blind spot (passenger side pillar bar, next to windshield). Completely missed a pedestrian at a crosswalk and almost ran her over and barely missed a car when I was coming out of a driveway, both were in the blind spot and didn't see them at all

 

Wonderful I don't know who buys equipment. We have Volvo's and there pretty good, but I know I haven't heard very good things about Kenworth or Peterbuilt.

 

Is there a hill start assist on it? Some of ours have it, some don't. I know if I don't disable it, I can slam a dock pretty hard.

Not sure how the clutch works in those either, but the iShift and DT12 have a 'creep mode' that will allow you to idle forward and reverse once you touch the go pedal. We get older prostars now and then from Penske, and those eatons are the absolute worst to try to finesse in reverse.

I'm hanging onto my old truck as long as I can. I drove an iShift for a year and a half and thought I liked it, but I've been back in a ten speed since fall. I don't know where my truck is this week, but I drove a Freightliner auto the other day and a Volvo auto today, and I really can't stand either one.

 

Good gracious I haven't driven an auto truck in over a year it's been a hot minute and it doesn't look like that's going to end any time soon.