The Food Service Rant thread

Just picked up a pair of carhartt bison boots. Very comfortable and non stick sole for greasy kitchens. We'll see how they hold up over the winter.

 

What ever happened to US Foods, Northstar Company? Why did that go belly up?

 

That was our chain supplier when they switched from us foodservice to us foods they consolidated divisions from what I understand.

 

You used to see North Star trucks pulling US Food Service trailers around.

 

Well, as far as my journey goes, I made the trip down to McLane in Phoenix and had a nice chat with the fleet manager guy down there. After that I made some last ditch efforts to see about getting domiciled out of my current town with the Lubbock branch and that was a no-dicer. So now I'm back on the horn with Phoenix and attempting to get that restarted again. Figure if I do make another major move for a job, it just won't be Texas.
Phoenix has the mountains, desert, not-too-cold weather, and the close enough proximity to other cities I could go have fun in during my days off. 2-3 days off in a far flung, rural area is nothing when you already waste a day of that driving a personal vehicle through the miles of dead-land.

New Mexico has been nice these past four years. But it's been hell trying to get on with other local/ultra-regional gigs around here with good pay and time-off. And the milk hauling/loading is also starting to get on my last nerve for a variety of reasons. Call it fluctuating pay, extremely odd variance in start times each day, boredom, yada.,

 

You might like Flagstaff or Prescott also. Fedex looking for linehaul out of Flag and food services are hiring, check Indeed. Buncha stuff along 40, including a fuel hauler that's suspiciously always looking.

 

Well that was fun, had a machine melt down at the warehouse last night and that caused a 2 hour delay. So I got moving about 6am this morning had a big route stop count wise and took a good amount of time to get the job done, funny thing is though I got back 3:30pm thought oh this is it I am last truck back, ha-wrong nope there were 3 others getting back at the same time, LOL I love when that happens.

 

Ya know mike, just to make ya feel better...


Clocked in at 4:30 am, routed the days work, preped and loaded 1 courier. Left at 6:45 with my preloaded semi. Got unloaded by equipment around 7:30 to 8, back to the shop, swaped out to my 24' flat that was also preloaded, back to the same drop site, again unloaded by equipment. Back to the shop, swaped out for a 24' box truck, made a single peice delivery 15 min, from the shop. Back to thw shop. Paperwork and off the clock at 13:15...


Feel better?

 

Today is my early day started at three got everything done expect for my last stop a bar and grill that doesn't open till 2 well this was noon so I ate my sandwich and took me a good 2 hour Siesta. all in all nothe a bad day.

 

Yes much better your day went 1-2-3!