Never Stand Still

Alright everyone I'm off to work on a cover run so I'll see you all tomorrow!

 

Well it's tomorrow! One more task to do before the night is over and then I'm going back to the yard.

I delivered my two stops and now am at a cheese plant waiting to be loaded.

 

Hi guys,
Sorry for getting this off topic, will finish up Cannon Express here shortly. I've been distracted for the past month. First with Katie and then with work and then my dad and I replaced all the support columns in my basement. That took a couple weeks to do.

Then after that I got involved in this big huge thought experiment on my other thread.

Where we basically started an entire chain of Convenient Food Mart C-Stores. We have like 20 pages devoted to this:
https://www.thetruckersreport.com/t.../first-second-first-date-ever.312414/page-445]

However here are the nuts and bolts:

















The company officers complained about the fleet of Volvo's, I didn't think they were bad, but they wanted black Kenworths so we traded in the Volvo's for Kenworth 800s! That are black and have tons of chicken lights!






So the way the map reads is like this:

Monday and Thursday we have all 6 trucks working on delivery routes.

Tuesday and Friday we have 3 trucks working on routes.

Now what to do with the other (3) drivers who are not on routes Tuesday and Friday. No worries.

Tuesday and Friday we send a set of doubles to Michigan. We drop a trailer for loading at Eby Brown in Romulus, Michigan and we then boogie over to GFS Brighton to load our other trailer and then boogie back to Elyria, Ohio where our warehouse is.

Also Tuesday we send a driver with a single trailer to the Cleveland Food Terminal to pick up our produce load for the week.

Then Tuesday and Friday we send a set of doubles to Dairymen's in Cleveland to get our milk and other assorted dairy and ice cream order what ever it is we buy.

Then Friday the guy who goes to the food terminal to buy produce will then go to our meat packer to pick up our meat order.

This will keep everyone working and busy.

Now Wednesday and Saturdays are open delivery days meaning if a store is out of something or say 3 stores in a certain county need delivery and it's a cargo van load we will send an "On Call" driver out those days.

Saturday is the same deal will see what the stores put in for delivery on Saturday and make routes accordingly.


Now realistically for 21 store locations if they are regular stores and go twice a week. 2 GMC Top Kicks could handle that work load easy.

21 stores each gets delivery 2x's a week.

so 21(SL) x 2(D)=42 stops a week. 42(sw) / 5(Days a Week)= 8 stops on each truck. Which would give you 454 cases on each truck. That's roughly 5 tons your allowed 20,000lbs per axle. Your only half way to gross. Now cube is a different story between pallet cube, bulk head between the cooler and freezer stuff like that 454 cases you would be about right for a truck like this:


I mean you could go a little more and do a 10 wheeler which gives you a 34,000lbs pay load, and probably 700-800 cases:

Either way though I think if you went the 10 wheeler route (1) 10 wheeler and like a Ford Econoline Van would be enough to do 21 stores twice a week.

Our actual system map has 79 stores which our fleet of trucks can handle comfortably we have more then enough capacity to do 79 stores. We actually are over capacity, but say in store sales increase because we have a huge media buy and Cameron is hawking our stores day and night and sales increase by maybe 10-15 cases a delivery we would have more then enough capacity to ad cases onto trucks as well as additional stops.

Technically speaking (3) 10 wheeler's or (3) 28' would be enough in my eyes to cover 79 stores each getting delivery twice a week. However that's Class B stores. We have (5) sheets style stores that get 200 cases a drop and they get delivery twice a week. So, those 5 stores are worth1000 cases right there which is basically a 28' trailer load so really (4) 10 wheeler's or (4) 28' either way you would be covered with a 4 truck fleet.

However with us we have (6) Trailers (4) Tractors (2) Converter Gear and (1) 1998 International 4900 10 wheeler and (1) 1995 GMC Topkick so we have plenty of motor power to service all of our stores. So our transport system can easily service all of our locations we shouldn't have any supply chain hold ups.

So that's what took 20 pages on my other thread.