1 to 2 day routes home weekends?

Probably a route less than 500 miles I would say.

 

sounds like multi stop food service work

 

route that takes up to two days to finish. sounds like mbm foodservice or mcklane foodservice. or something like them

 

I believe it takes more than 1 or 2 days to get to a weekend. My Antennaes are up.

 

I used to run a food service route. Leave home 11pm on Sunday, get to Knoxville and grab the loaded trailer, hit Montgomery Bay Minette, Mobile, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, get back home noon on Tuesday. Leave out Wednesday night, do it all again be back home Friday noon. It's work, and on paper, not a bad gig.

The bad parts were
1. Some of the customers were major pricks. Your job was to roll the food out of the truck, and into the store. Some of those jack wads wanted you to stock their shelves. And when you refuse, they get downright nasty. Sorry amigo, I am immune to nasty. Don't want the food? Fine by me. Put it back on the truck and they call customer service because they need food to operate their business. So you have some spineless CSR person on the phone, kissing tail and trying to sweet talk you, the extremely pissed off driver to roll the stuff back into the restaurant a second time and stock the shelves for free. That's when you hang up, and call your boss who goes rounds with the CSR people and remind him/her that the drivers do not stock shelves. Want to hear the worst thing? You will have to go through the same bull with the same customer next week.

2. Stairs. That's all that need to be said. I've wheeled groceries down two flights of stairs. Backbreaking work. Unloading stuff at the grocery warehouses is a cakewalk compared to dealing with a place with stairs. Your average load of 6/10 cans of tomatoes and vegetables weigh 600 lbs.

 

Why don't you ask the person that ran the ad ?

 

1 to2 day routes. If it is foodservice you will likely work 4 or 5 days, but you usually get meals and sleep in a motel if u hafta layover. Did it for 9 years, hard work but not a bad gig.

 

I have had several jobs with 1 or 2 day runs . It's simply delivering within a 500 mile radius allowing you to return the same or next day .
One job I had was with a moving supply company that had to contract to make weekly box deliveries to U-Haul stores . The contract required in store delivery but the store was supposed to have a designated area to place the boxes . I was working out of Norcross , GA .
I delivered to one store in Birmingham , AL where the manager was also the area manager over 5 stores . He wanted me to bring the boxes and place each size in the stacks on display on the store . I told him I wasn't required to do that . The designated area was in a bay in the garage . He told me to either do what he said or I wasn't allowed in his stores . I called dispatch and they told me to bring the load back to Norcross . A week later my supervisor showed me a letter U-Haul HQ in had sent to mangers of all centers . It stated the contract clearly specified delivery procedures . Box delivery wasn't like delivery of Coca Cola where the driver was required to stock shelves . That was too time consuming and would increase delivery costs .
Dispatch kept me on other routes in GA and TN for a couple of months . When I went back to AL employees at the stores in that area were surprised I still had my job and treated me like a hero . That manager was a real prick nobody could stand up to and they were happy to see him get a chewing out from the corporate office .

 

rick... coca cola has merchandisers that stock shelves and displays. drivers will put product near the display or wheel it in coolers or backroom.the bigger chains store, drivers will put product in their section and break down pallets to put product in rows by flavor. i even had to break down product onto a belt and restack into a section upstairs. some stores have elavators. but it was a great job with good pay. not even going into problems with dealing with store owners and receivers. take too much room and don't want to hijack thread as much as i already have lol