Food service downtown 53 ft trailer new driver

the food delivery companies up here, in New England, use 35's, and 40's, with an occasional 45'.

the longer 53's are used to take foods from one warehouse to the terminal, to be broken down, stocked, and then later re-loaded onto the smaller trailers.

now, however, McLane DOES USE 53's and those guys along with Martin Bower (they do mc donalds) have to deal with shopping malls, strip malls and neighborhood stores.

the company that does Domino's pizza, Kentucky fried chicken, taco bell, and some other eateries (all in one truck) also use 53's, same areas, same circumstances.

i wish you well.

i deliver to 2 places in downtown Boston, MA 5 nights a week, in a 53 footer, but i deliver construction items to our customers other locations.

so i can tell you, that your area, would be wider and easier than mine.

 

I think it depends on how well you catch on to driving. Fast learners may do well at food service right off the bat.

I worked at a commissary several years ago and let me tell you those guys that delivered our stuff made me tired just watching em.

 

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less than truck load ups fedex old dominion abf estes companies like that people say working the oilfields pays good to but i dont have experience with that

 

Take the test get the permit or CDL. Worrying about stuff now youre just psyching yourself out for no reason. Pay attention in training and youll be fine. Accidents happen unfortunately, all you can do is to lessen the chances of it happening to you. Alotta the "drivers" on here ruining thier careers have multiple incidents in a short time and then complain theyre not being treated fairly by the company while refusing to admit they just might be the problem. Dont be one of them and youll be fine. Stay away from the usual suspects too. There are plenty of ways to get trained, as you already know, without selling your soul to Swift or similar.

 

The food service may let you be a humper helping the drivers now which would give you real good insight on that job. It is long hard work and you will be in real good shape until a mishap.

 

I worked for Sysco Atlanta for 15years as a delivery driver. They ran 28ft,36ft and 42ft trailers on the delivery routes. Any 53ft trailers were pretty much just used for backhauls.

Also worked for US Foods out of Charlotte. Almost all the delivery routes out of this house were on 48ft trailers. They do run a few pups (28ft) , but probably 90% of the time you ran with a 48ft trailer.

I couldn’t back a trailer to save my life when I first started at Sysco. It took some time to learn. I didn’t take a lot of chances and had to handtruck the orders from the spot I felt comfortable parking the truck. It takes time, but you do improve. The more you improve, the closer that restaurant back door gets and the less amount of steps you are running.

Good luck. Don’t let the trailer ft# get in your head. Every new truck driver has had the same thoughts you are having. Just take your time and listen/& observe your time with the driver trainer. And don’t be afraid to ask questions.