The Food Service Rant thread

Your vacation sounds almost like mine I too, hung around the house LOL!

 

Hey @Mike2633 ill give you a run down of my day to day, i get up around 345 in the morning, get to my shop round 415, unlock if the other morning guy isint there yet. Walk my building to get eyes on the freight for the day, clock in at 430, me and one other driver route the daily deliveries. Around 5 i go outside and prep my truck, either my 48 or 24 whatever i need for the day, between 5 and 7 or so i load my truck, wrapping and loading pallets with a fork, and picking and banding pipe, organizing my truck and securing it. If i have time i help out any driver that may need it. Around 7 or so i leave, and make my deliveries. That could consist of anywhere from 1 to 10 stops. Alot of times i have a forklift of my own, (moffet) that i use, so drops are for the most part easy. Some days i go back for a second run, some days not. When i get back i unload anything i may have picked for the day, (usually nothing) then see whats on tap for the next day. If theres time or if it needs to be done I'll pre load or at least prep the pipe ect.. or clean up our pipe yard. If im on time i clock out around 1 pm.... yeah it is more physical than it sounds, but come on.... im not blind to how good I've got it

 

You get up fairly early not much later then my self. You sound like you do quite a bit at your shop a lot more then just driving your making deliveries and organizing routes and doing all that stuff.

I get up about 2:45am and check my voice mail if I am on express routes and then crawl out of bed get my uniform on and walk groggily to my car. Drive to work and then usually by that time I am a little more awake and I go on the computer check my route for the day grab any customer keys I may need grab my hand held computer log on duty for the day grab my two wheelers throw them in the back of my pick up truck and drive to the yard where our trucks are parked and where the trailers come in.

I fire up my truck give it a good look over and then hunt the drop yard for my trailer unless I'm waiting for it to come in. When it comes in on night transit I'll help break the set of doubles down and hook my tractor up to my trailer. Throw my wheelers into my trailer grab my paper work get it all in order go through my hand held begining of the day prompts, and then it's pretty much off to the races. Set the radio to a station I like.
Say a quick prayer and beep the air horn twice for good luck and head out of the yard.

Then from there it's an all day race to the finish it's the slowest fastest race you have ever done in your life LOL.

It's 2,000lbs here, 1,000lbs there 800 pounds over here, 2000lbs over there 1500lbs over there and that goes on all day long in and out in and out in and out of the trailer up and down up and down out of the cab all day long. Green light go Red Light stop.

Usually by Noon on Monday I am heading to my second last stop. Then do my last stop and head to the trucks stop/gas station near the Air Port to get fuel for my truck and then back to drop yard.

At the yard I find a parking space on my trailer on the line for night transit to pull away. If there is one available I'll spot a converter dolly in from of my trailer.

If there is an extra converter spotted in front of a trailer I will build a set of doubles. Then unhook my tractor and park it for the day grab my belongings and put them in my pick up truck grab my wheelers put them in my pick up truck and drive up front to our office. Log out on my hand held park my two wheelers in the back room. Rumage around our office for something to eat or use the bathroom. Look in my mail box to see if I have any mail. Log on to the computer see what's on tap for tomorrow and do my end of the day check in and paper work and then that's pretty much it. Like Friday is a long day for me longest of the week always was I do a very busy area of town on Friday I go down Chagrin Blvd US422 and I-271 which is the busiest intersection and street in Northeast, Ohio. So Friday's lots of stops lots of traffic by the end of Friday my patience for the traffic and idiot east side drivers is starting to wear thin.

Monday I'm half out in Lorain County, Ohio Grafton-LaGrange it's a big difference from the east side. East side is dense full of people, Grafton-LaGrange there's corn fields and farms. Actually Monday is not a bad day for me and I do not mind it truth be told. Friday is actually a tough one. My Thursday so far so good and Tuesday and Wednesday are both passable.

 

This helpful video from 2007 is pretty accurate. This is the old Greenville,SC chain distribution recruiting video this warehouse is now closed and is just a drop lot now.

 

For the record I've unloaded over 1,000 cases a day in a 28' trailer. 1,000 cases in a 50' trailer is a lot more spread even.

 

So yesterday at the gym I spent like almost 2 hrs on the elyptical and it was great except for today I was sooo slow today. Or it at least felt that way.

Any how only 709 cube and 14,000lbs but it worked out to 833 cases. First couple stops though we're all high case counts 147,102,88,87 so they came off but it was just one of those days where I felt like I was going way slow.

 

I have those days more than often where I feel like I am dragging ###, it really bugs me even though at the end of the day I check my stop times and I am shocked lol.

Man you guys taking about flat bed stuff reminds me of my first two trucking jobs. My first job was OTR for a flatbed company.... Let's just say that didn't last long. Then I got hired at a ready mix company and there I got trained on a bunch of stuff, I started in a mixer, then a tractor trailer dump truck. I had to load my own truck in the yard so I got trained on the front end loader. Then they moved me to hauling pre-cast and blocks so I got trained on a moffett. And now I am at GFS lol strange how that worked out. I still wanna haul heavy equipment and will one day even if the pay isn't food service pay.

 

I've wanted to work for a McDonals distributor or work for a freight company. McDonalds has mostly lift gates and carts so a tad easier plus they make equal or greater too my current salary. However they dispatch 24-7 365.

 

That's so odd, must be a lot more paper products than DV's chain routes. Just got back from my regular tuesday "local". 196 miles, 1061 cases, 29,700lb. 8 Chipotles, 1 On The Border -- two stops in Athens, 7 in the city, 2 of which are malls. Tiring, but fun 12 hour day.

 

1061 palletized are you in a 36' or 50'? what was your cube?
In the 1980s GFS in Brighton,MI did 29,000lbs in a 28'.

Our warehouse could probably attempt that load in a 28' but gosh if they put an inexperienced loader on it you would call it malpractice.