The Food Service Rant thread

Summer is here, was 97 in socal, supposed to hit 100 plus tomorrow. The heat was just draining and killed me at my last stop

 

So this happened today...nothing damaged but took a few minutes to sort it all out.

 

I hear you on that one had an older refer trailer today that ehh wasn't always running how I want them to when it's warm out ha-ha!

 

I know that country song the words and the lyric been there done that have a whole scrap book of pictures similar to that. Are you guys just hauling produce, because that looks like a produce hauling single zone straight truck to me, which is pretty common for produce hauling.

 

Don't feel bad Anthony today I saw one of your co-workers in a probably extremely similar set up to what you are used to driving.
Here it is Coca Cola Consolidated Group of Lake County, Ohio. have not seen a twin screw of there's like this usually single screw. They do have a bulk truck running around. It's a single screw Sterling pulling a 45' trailer then they have a bunch of these 28' trailers running around. They have some side loaders too, but probably only a handful, I think those do vending machine stops.

Coke is funny Lake County Coke has a bunch of 28'.
Summit Count Coke has a bunch of 38'
Cleveland Coca Cola Independent Bottling Company has no 28' a bunch of 12 bays a few 16 bays and a good amount of 38 and 48 foot bulkers running around.

So see your not alone.

 

I'll tell you what Duck, being in the heat and the traffic all day just whoops you. Your right by the end of the day you are dragging. I don't think it's the actual delivering that's so bad I think it's the heat and the traffic after a while that just gets to you.

I wash my truck on Friday and I was washing it today and it took me way to long to do because I was talking the whole time with 2 other drivers and the one said ugh I'm tired time to go home. I said "Enough GFS for one day?" He goes "It's not the driving or delivering." I went "It's the traffic and heat." He goes "Yeah it's the traffic that just wares you out."

I've never made it that far west, but I've heard stories about the traffic in the city of Angels.

Have you ever noticed that being outside in the sun all day while it's fun in the sun and heat by the end of the day it makes you tired, once the sun goes down it's like being hit by a ton of bricks. Come Friday I'm usually popped and by 10pm it's sleepy time, I can stay up much later on Saturday, but Friday man my days of making it till 12-1am are over ha-ha!

 

Today sucked! My route was in the desert and it was already 100 by 10am! Had to use my 16 hour rule and I ended up tripping over a pallet on the trailer and landed on the back of my head. Hope I don't have a concussion, felt dizzy on the way home and thought i was going to pass out.

Not sure if it's because I hit my head or because of the immense heat and I didn't eat all day

 

That's not good, I was a little annoyed by the end of yesterday, but nothing even close to that, that would have made me angry.

 

Yes, just produce and she is a straight truck('16 Hino 338 to be exact). Reefer unit is a Thermo King.

 

Beer Haulers around here by the name of Cavalier Distributing have a 16' Hino they use to deliver Kegs out of. They would pack that thing full to the brim. Back when I was on Ohio City when I was in the beer business I would see those guys all the time they had the specialty crafty beers that all the hipsters liked to drink and those specialty crafty beers they had 1/2 barrel beer keg pallets stacked on top of half barrel beer keg pallets. The truck had a lift gate and what happens is the fulls empty out, but the empty's come back in. That was rough work, all those rickety stairs it was usually a two man job too.