Truckers that are on dedicated grocery accounts. Much respect!

I did it for awhile due to a family situation & needing to be home more. You're right; I think grocery stores hire all the village idiots. I was stressed all the time dealing with those clowns.

 

Imagine doing that work where it’s snows 5 months out of the year.

You’re not telling me anything I didn’t already know just by understanding the logistics. Add in the fact drivers are constantly quitting making the rest have to deal with all the associated unplanned call to works.

I assume you’re probably talking about Walmart and that’s probably the worst because it’s ran with the “mega dry van fleet” mentality.

 

I did Walmart grocery with Swift for about one year... the hours sucked but it was about $1200 a week so I didn’t complain until it affected my health and living in cold Midwest didn’t help....

 

My stress came from the people I had to deal with at the grocery stores, plus I wanted OTR, not local/regional.
Grocery store employees always trying to steal off the truck or claim shortages when in reality they stole items and hid them in the store.
I started throwing away any paperwork that showed shortages or damages, so the store couldn't get credit for it. I made a game and war out of dealing with those village idiots.
It was a happy day when I finally went OTR again.

 

Dealing with grocery places is bad enough as an OTR driver. I would never even consider a dedicated account with any of them.
My sanity is too important to me, not to mention a somewhat regular sleep schedule.

 

And you wonder why I am super careful in a grocery store to this day. The stockers get peeved when I pull a case of something off their rack to see which farm shipped the apples for example. If I recognize the source as having hauled out of there in washington state for example I'll go over the apples. They learned to tolerate me by now.

It's best to start off in grocery when you have no experience at all and don't know any better. He he he.

 

Yes,these Companies hire & fire Everyday.These and the Dollar Store routes are usually temporary.Just saying how many have done it for 25 years? I have yet to personally meet a driver that has done it over 2 or 3 years.JMO

 

I turned an early before dawn corner last week ( Green Bay maybe , not sure) and had to come to a stop behind all the trucks backed up trying to get into an Aldi D/C. I was grateful to be headed to my 15 minute drop n hook and back on the road for another 550. Love shopping at their store but have no use for their D/C nor any other grocery warehouse and it’s lumper nonsense.