The Food Service Rant thread

GFS Chain division works 4 days, not home daily though. I'm out monday-tuesday, thursday-friday

 

Been looking a bit at food service. What companies have driver facing cameras? Think I saw sysco does.

I know I got mclane, us foods, gfs, sysco and Reinhart near me. I haven't driven for a while though.

 

All of those you named except Gordon

 

US Foods does. For what it’s worth, they’ve been really cracking down on drivers caught doing something wrong on drivecam in my area. When the vehicle is moving you have to wear a seatbelt at all times (even in the yard), no smoking/eating/drinking/adjusting the radio. I think the policy is two strikes and you’re gone.

 

Ya my old company brought driver facing cameras in as a 'oh we're just using them in emergency situations' and before you know it supervisors were randomly watching drivers all day long and write ups left and right. They just get abused too much.

 

Well it’s not quite that Orwellian. Drivecam only goes off if it detects some sort of hard braking or hitting something (like a dock...) and it sends footage of the previous 12 seconds and next 3 seconds to the drivecam company to review. If they see a safety violation, then it gets sent to your supervisor. Nobody is watching live.

 

I mean if someone is running red lights, staring at their phone or whatever, I get it. I just think it's ridiculous people get wrote up for changing a song cause the drive cam went off over a bump. Drivers aren't robots.

I work for an ltl right now and it's a solid company and I could easily go the drive route with them. Just like the idea of the money/exercise of food service.

 

We had a guy leave to go work for Waste Management and he came back after six months(and having worked a job in-between). Pretty sure it was WM's "Three Points Of Contact" edict that ended him there. Within two months back he planted a truck under a railroad underpass(12'10 vs 11'10, truck totaled), he kept his job. One morning six months later he was on his way to work and was hit by a drunk driver and broke both of his legs. Glad that was all he broke. Not sure how long he will be on the shelf, but I'm pretty sure he will still have a job when/if he comes back.

 

Uh thanks for all of the extra space, I guess...

 

At least you have straps! The idiot warehouse where I work will mix the crap out of the pallets, build them ceiling high and don't strap it 90 percent of the time