Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

We do Pizza Hut? Huh who knew, I thought McLane did all those.

You get more per case then us, but we get more per mile, by one cent lol! You get way more per stop, but we do more stops. It's probably pretty similar as far as pay goes at the end of the day from the sound of it.

 

Yes the entire trailer slides the box slides and exposes the fifth wheel:

The converter is permanently attached B trains real popular up in Canada and Australia because the converter is not independent its more stable and you can actually back it up some. Steel haulers from Detroit use them as well a little bit.

 

The things I have yet to learn!

That's a pretty awesome trick: "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a dolly out of my...!"

 

Yep. We do a bunch in Indiana. Mine are all northern Indiana and a few in fort Wayne. They're all franchised. The only ones the make their pizza from fresh dough. It's pretty tasty! Supposedly it's the best selling franchise in the nation. I have the top 2 selling pizza huts in the nation on my Thursday night. Usually about 350 cases a piece.
WE also do a bunch of Chipotle's from our d.c... I'd say that's our biggest customer. Most of those are 3 deliveries a week. Talk about heavy. But they don't have any freezer product so it's nice.

 

I like the B-Trains Australia and Canada they are pretty popular DCT Chambers up in BC, Canada uses B-Trains on the Quocuhola Highway, they call them super B's, and use them to haul forestry goods like wood chips and stuff. Usually for dry van or refer freight B-Trains aren't all that popular except for eastern Canada (Ontario and Quebec) in British Columbia they use B trains for tanks, flat beds and Dumps for hauling forestry stuff.

 

I knew we did Chipotle although I don't think they do any up here in Cleveland. Anderson-DuBoise from Youngstown, Ohio is the McDonalds supplier for every McDonalds from north east, Ohio all the way to Rotterdam, NY and they were doing Chipotle when McDonalds owned them and, they still stuck with them.

Yeah I know Chipotle and Bob Evans are the big ones. Do we still do Red Robbin?

 

Oh i see. Also brio and bravo, but those aren't very big. We still have red Robin but we just lost the bid. They'll be phasing out in early/ late fall of this year. I haven't had to deal with that account thankfully. I've heard they aren't fun. Most get a full skid of fries which are manually loaded, then the rest of the freezer stacked on top. And from what I've been told, red Robin requires the fries to be stacked on a shelf. Which is just harder when the fries are the last thing off of the truck. I will say that I'd probably take a red Robin over BJS though.

 

I haven't eaten at Red Robin in years, I know they have bottomless fries or something, so they floor load a skid of fries into the trailer and then put the rest of the freezer on top? Are your loads floor or pallet loaded? I know our chain division they put the cooler on these red plastic pallets.

 

We're automated and floor loaded. The computer automatically prints out labels for the warehouse guys in situations like that, then they manually have the crane dump out a pallet of the fries. Then the selector takes the pallet to shipping and then a shipping guy loads the pallet onto the truck. It's just a rare exception. In chains we use the red pallets for all of our cooler. I had 9 on my Bob Evans route the other night. I hate them.

 

ok, tell us why you hate BJ's steakhouse. inquiring minds want to know.