Performance Food Group

I was considering food service due to going local.
Is there a way to work smart in these jobs and avoid injuries?
How often to you visit places with elevators? ( I hear a lot about steps and basements)

 

When I was a company reefer driver it sucked delivering to MClane PFG and US Foods.

 

Yeah don't go into food service is how.

 

I never got injured in a year of doing foodservice, but I'd imagine it only gets more likely the longer you do it. I personally know of multiple drivers who suffered serious injuries by being careless.

You might see some elevators, but they aren't much better than stairs. I had one at a retirement place that got about a pallet worth of dry goods going down to the basement. But the elevator was really slow and it was also used by the hundreds of residents and staff. They (usually) had a flatbed cart available like you would see at a Home Depot garden center, and I loaded everything up on the cart and my two-wheeler to make it in one trip. But it was a pain moving the product to the tail of my trailer and then handling it again to stack it on the cart.

I also had a stop in an office building where I parked at the loading dock in the basement and took the freight elevator up a few floors to the cafeteria. They didn't have any carts or pallet jacks laying around, and it was a fairly small stop, so I brought 2 seperate two-wheelers to stack everything and take it up in one trip.

I helped another driver who had a school with a very small elevator, and there was no way to do it besides taking up one stack at a time, about a half mile round trip from the truck to the kitchen and back. The route gives him about 3 hours to get it all done because of the distance.

 

#### that sounds like it sucks and the elevators sound creepy.

 

If foodservice is that bad, what other local gigs do they have that I can possibly research getting into?

 

It’s really not bad if you can get in the right mindset for it and if you happen to end up with a great team to work with (regardless of what company). LTL and fuel hauling are also good choices than can pay well.

 

Yeah, fuel hauling is probably going to require some experience. LTL I have been looking into as well.

 

Delivering to a company as an outside trucker and working for the company are two completely different animals.

 

BAD MOVE.