The Food Service Rant thread

Our chain guys run heavier the 28' trucks well it depends, I would say 16,000lbs for us is medium heavy. GFS used to run a lot heavier, but broad line isn't an apples to apples comparison to McLane Customized so it's hard to say.

 

So today I got up about midnight or O dark 30 literally it was the 30th minute in the zero hour and it was dark and 28 mile an hour winds out side and I said. "Ugh"
Anyhow I got to work and the power was out at our office and the police had the big hill blocked and I thought, oh good. So I left a voice mail to the crew telling them the police had the hill blocked and then I called one of our transit drivers to let them know the power was out and the police had the big hill closed, I thought it would be good to let them know so they don't show up with a set of doubles and can't go down the road they need to go down that never works well. Anyhow, the power did come back on and the police vacated the hill. This was at about 01:30am.




So in the wind I went out to the yard and found my trailer, which by the way I was wrong on the case count I thought I was going to have 800 I had 905.

So I hooked up and took off, trailer felt like I was dragging a heavy led weight behind the truck.

Anyhow I got to my first stop 4,700lbs which equates to about 236 cases.

So I got there in the dark and set off there alarm, because they changed the alarm and never notified us, the problem is we exist to them, but we don't. Were a key stop and they literally never see us. The food literally appears. It's the closest thing to something just appearing there could be.

See the kitchen staff and probably general manager has little to no concept that at 2:00am a 4700lbs shipment is going to roll in to there place there already gone home and fast asleep.

This stop is local restaurant chain set up per there request by the way to where they never see or deal with the big truck. I've never seen or talked to anyone who works at the restaurant.

Anyhow, 2 weeks in a row of setting off the alarm, the police came and I talked to them and the policeman said "Ehh you know these, places they fire people left and right, so there always changing this stuff."

So that was about that, anyhow actually had a pretty good loader today and cut through the rest of the load real good. I think by stop 4 I had managed to shed 480 cases, so 905 came off rather alright.

Tomorrow though is going to be a knock down drag out fight, 3 part route, it's got all the makings of a 4 hour 2 VHS Tape Francis Ford Coppola Film 18,000+ lbs with stops all the way out in Brunswick, Ohio. I already know it's going to have an ugly 300 something cube freezer that will be all side door all day long, I'm debating taking a fold down, but nahh probably won't have enough room on the trailer. It's going to be ugly I pray they don't screw up the trailer freezer to to much, sometimes on Wednesday I get these bad freezer loads.

The Wednesday before thanksgiving, oh mercy me oh my, small little 500 case load, 90% of it freezer they jam packed the freezer with no rhyme or reason to it and the dry and cooler a.k.a the back of the trailer was half empty and they built the worst dry load I had ever seen. Threw two cases of 6-10 cans on top of 2 cases of crackers turned them in to cracker dust.

So well that will all be a real good time I'm predicting an early start with a late finish tomorrow, I'll be back in the later afternoon, I will say this good money making week this week, been heavy 3 days in a row.

 

What's stupid about em?

 

I think bad loading, goofy routing, bad Ryder lease equipment. Goofy used hand me down heavy tare weight trailers that have bad refer units that are always breaking down. Stuff like that.

 

590 cases? That's one of our bigger route sales drops at a "bin". Usually the guy/gal who does Walmarts and the local grocery chains. My last load on Monday was 2780 cases/18K lb, managed to punt it all off the trailer and get to my hotel before my 14, so it was a good day. Going out to play in traffic tomorrow morning, doing the drop and hook DC to DC thing. Gonna visit our Aberdeen plant for lunch, then up to dirty Jersey for my last trailer relay.

 

Ahh what a day a heavy one 18,100lbs with 800 cases and 16 stops with a bunch of running around the day was divided into about 4 parts and I'll tell you the last part of the day was heavy sacks of rice and all the usual heavy stuff Mexican joints buy.

 

Are you going to visit my friends in Aberdeen tomorrow as well?

 

Nah, grabbed a trailer from our plant and hustled up to Piscataway NJ. I was trying to beat afternoon rush hour, and didn't make it. NJ off the interstates can be an awful cluster once people get out of work.

 

Sounds like East 55th street in Cleveland, Ohio around 3:00pm what a mess, there's a factory near there that, lets out around that time and it just swells the streets with traffic.

 

Hello everyone,
This morning my alarm went off around 2am or so and at 3am which was late there was a voice mail from a warehouse transit driver who said he would have my route and the route I was paired with at the yard, by 5:15am which is pretty late, he even said "I'm going to be in by 5:15am, sorry guys."

So I thought, well that won't matter that much, but my second stop hopefully I can get into it, that's pretty late and traffic might be to heavy to back into it. I was already formulating a plan B for how I would do my second stop.

So he gets in and actually using team work we got my trailer and everything hooked up pretty fast. He said he was on his 3rd trip of the night, which is a lot usually 1-2 that's all those guys do, he was on number 3! 2 Cleveland's and a Youngstown run.

Anyhow got hooked up and I took off, because I was late and had to get to my second stop, of course I had 3700lbs to take off at my first stop and when I got there the hood cleaners were there working, ugh! What a pain it is working around the hood cleaners!

Anyhow, ended up getting through 1 and 2 and then every other stop one by one. Took me all day I think I got back to the yard by 4:30-4:45pm something like that. My Friday is just an all day affair from way before the sun rises till after 2pm there just is no way around it, the route is on the east side very busy, lots of slow goes with tons of idiotic 4 wheelers.

I've long since said this and stand by it, this is my last city job, I've had 2 of them and that's it, no more, this one is better then the beer company god was that awful 18-25 stops a day, literally you stop at every single place and then some going down the whole street, but I've had enough city LOL.

So that's how that goes rest of the day though went alright because of the late start I didn't get held up waiting for any stop to open or driving out of my way, however I had a couple extra stops today, because another truck that runs in a similar area to my self, was loaded to like 23,000lbs.

When I got back to the yard there were still two trucks that were out. The guy with 23,000lbs was out and another guy I think stayed out longer to help him, because I was talking to our van driver before I hoped in the car and left tonight and before I left I saw 2 of our trucks headed into the yard traveling with each other, which means the one guy went and helped the other.

Anyhow, very busy this week think I was close to 4,000 cases.