Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Tampa nhl team

 

we can kick right through the basket for a homerun.

 

Took them long enough.

 

That's Plant City warehouse, one of our drivers from CLE transferred down to Jacksonville, and Jacksonville is plant city division. He said that for a manual pull warehouse the loads are actually pretty good and match the quality of the floor loads we have in CLE, that warehouse has been around a long time that's a GFS legacy division so it's not some new place, they know what they are doing there.

It's going to be harder then Coca Cola, although the pay at GFS is pretty good on the sales service side which is the delivery side the pay is I think a tid bit higher then anywhere else, because we run our trucks heavy, other places once a truck gets 500-600 cases in it they cut it off because they don't want anyone making over $1200 a week.

We don't do that at GFS I didn't have a day this week that was under 700 cases. I had 4200 cases this week or there about.

The good news is my loads and routes are always heavy I run typically the 3rd heaviest route in our branch of 22 drivers I'm usually #3 for most cases delivered in any quarter I'm not saying that to brag, what I'm saying is it takes a lot to get there because the other guys are loaded heavy too. Here's where I'm going with this, I've been very fortunate because I run heavier routes I tend to and this is not all the time, it is luck of the draw, but the warehouse tends to have the better loaders load the heavier routes and I tend personally at least me I tend to get the better loaders vs a small route where those guys get newer loaders who aren't as experienced.

So here's where I'm going with it, a heavy route doesn't always mean a bad day or time, because if you have a heavy route, chances are they have the stronger more accurate packers loading those routes and the day won't be so bad.

Yes I've had plenty of Armageddon moments, but they don't last and our warehouse has been really really trying hard to crack down on bad quality loads and I can say this, my loads this week most of them were really pretty decent, my Thursday the cooler is always a little iffy, but other then that, I know Wednesday and Friday I had our best packer at the warehouse I can tell because A. he writes his name on the slip and B. I can tell by his work. I can tell by the way he stacks things, the guy is like a machine his stacks look like they were done by a machine it's amazing he has a natural god given talent for stacking it's just a talent that can't be taught.

So what I'm saying is, it's not all bad, your going to walk a lot, you'll have hard time consuming stops, but you'll also have quick in and out stops too.

Wednesday I subbed a route that I had not had much experience with and it was 16 stops and I though oh man I'll be out here forever. Wrong! I had our best loader on the trailer all the stacks were perfect very little double handling, nothing was crushed, the stops I had were only 50-60 cases each not real heavy stuff, no steps, not a far walk to the truck, a little bit of driving but nothing really to outlandish. The stops ripped off 1-2-3. 16, stops and 724 cases on a semi blind route and I was done just a hair after 2pm I had to wait at one stop for a dock to open. Was not a problem.

Once you get past the learning curve in the beginning, you kind of see how it all works and it'll all come together. It's like when the rap music stars of the 1980s were coming up from the underground. As Chuck D said the pieces were just all falling into place and we couldn't help them from falling into place.

 

What all the TNT companies are merging together? Are they forming a new company TNT MEGALOAD

 

PM me and call me if you have any questions.
Zach91 worked for GFS's Ohio Valley Division he knows about the chain division.

I work the sales service division/side of it, which is the 28' for the street level sales. PM and you can call me if you have any questions.

 

I actually want to do it for the hard work aspect (crazy I know lol) after 20 years at UPS and many of those years in a package car I miss the work end of it and food service always seemed like a similar job just bigger.

 

It is similar the difference is instead of 100 stops a day and 2 boxes at each stop. It's 11 stops a day and 120 boxes at each stop.