Age discrimination at Beverage Companies?

To the OP, there are beverage companies that hire with no experience. I worked for an independent Pepsi company. I was a trainer there, and have trained people fresh out of truck driving school. Some of the schools they came from should be ashamed of themselves for charging 5000.00 and cannot back, shift, drop and hook

 

By the way, the way beverage companies are hurting to hire people. Those drinks have to get to the shelves somehow. Let people or stores not get their Mtn. Dew, Dr. Pepper, or Coke and see what happens

 

That is tough work. I've done it. Worked for Pepsi.
I started when I was 18 and that's when I got my Class A license.

It's not "as bad" now as it was 30+ years ago bc they do more pallet bulk delivery, even to Cstore sites, so you're not handling the product quite as much but it's still a spine twister.

My best analogy was always..
Imagine starting every day with a flatbed full of cinder blocks that you had to drive around with and stack some off... roll them in... move the ones they already have... put the new blocks in a specific order on the bottom... then restock the old blocks back on top of the new ones.

It's never a one touch deal.
You touch em all about 3 times each.

A 30,000lb load is almost a 100,000lb day.

That's a fact.

 

It happens. It's also illegal. However in all honestly if I owned or managed a company like these bottling company's and I was presented with a 25 year old and a 45 year old and everything else was even I would hire the 25 year old. That 45 year old over the next 10 years is going to cost my company a lot more money I'm speaking about averages here not a specific case. Same thing happens in reverse with housing. I know a man right now today that will not rent his 3 properties to couples with children. My best advice if you want to remain in trucking is to adjust your goals.

 

Which city are you in or near?

 

It's illegal to age discriminate, but it's hard to prove unless you have statistical data from their hiring pool and you can prove that all of the candidates over a specific age group that applied that were turned down were not qualified for the position.

Unfortunately companies get away with it every day.

 

www.schneiderjobs.com may have something with home daily or almost every day.

Schneider home daily delivery drivers.

 

Foodservice and beverage is young mans work .
They did you a favor op.
I'm 54 and knees and shoulders are bad because of the abuse 25 years ago.

 

Those beverage outfits want young , strong dudes to sling that stuff. Older dudes usually cant hack it.
Except Dave lol

I applied at Coke when I first got my license. Had an interview and that was all she wrote.
I probly wouldnt have made one week - I was 50 at the time

 

I wish they'd outlaw senior discounts and 55+ communities.