Produce delivery

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Onions and watermelons are common on open-de

16' or less box/straight reefer trucks.

 

depends on what they need. i have seen refrigerated and non-refrigerated. depends on the range of delivery, i guess?

there used to be a farmers wholesale warehouse near me, musta had about 100 doors, all open, vegetables, fruits, on the docks, at or about 1 AM, the big trucks rolled in to deliver. at about 3 AM, the market trucks would be loaded for deliveries. at about 5 AM, restaurant workers like the chef's or the assistants would be buying what they wanted.\\i once worked for a packing company, all meats, and it was a reefer, and i had to go to that warehouse on occasion.

as for pay, i don't know, i'd hope on a W-2,

 

Are you referring to delivering produce to restaurants? If so it's usually a 16'-24' straight truck. And you'll be running a ramp with a loaded cart just like the food service big boys. The work isn't that hard, the hours are long and the money is decent.

 

I am not surprised.

Tomato paste has not been part of our menu in so long. Two generations back the family made their own from what we could get at the kitchen stove as the need arose. Today's canned paste is not my taste. So I don't use them.

 

I see someone else has been to food processing plants although a bit of exaggeration. What people don't know would freak them out, I've seen a lot, and it's still pretty safe. Food recalls don't surprise me one bit, however. Dog food makers too, now there's a happy place, you'll know when you get near Jefferson, Wis. ( Carnation). The stench smells like jobs to them.

 

From the farm to the plant that washes sorts and packages them, the open bin trailers are used, same for Onions, Garlic. ,st of the produse rides in the open bins at some time.

After they get a bath, and go thru sorting they may get to ride in other trailers, everything from 53' refers to flatbeds depending on there next stop.

Mellons are frequently loaded into refers and flats right in the fields.