Delivering Beer

I deliver beer now, it's not a bad gig if you don't mind the physical labor of it. Some days can be very stressful, some salesmen over sell product and you have to rotate all the stock. Some days are great, some are hell. It's a good job but there is better jobs out there. My company helped with my CDL too and now I'm starting to look for a different place to work with my experiance.

 

I never had to rotate product, but the company I worked for did do some very stressful things like purposefully over sell to inflate sales numbers sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't. The company I worked for did the same as you they trained people to get CDL's and then required them to stay 2 years and then usually what happened was around the 2 year mark those people start looking at other places.

I've said this before and I'll say it again I would give the beer company I used to work for a shot if it was doing shuttles at night, didn't pay great, but if you need a job and money to keep the lights on and food in the fridge and gas in the car and some other conveniences you would be fine doing that.

 

No rotating? Ah man I would love that! Ha. We also pick up empty bottles and can bags from customers. Those can get nasty!

 

None of that where I worked just grabbed the empty kegs is all we did.

 

Tell him McDonald's and when I say McDonald's I mean like Golden State Foods or Martin Brower one of the McDonald's suppliers although I think you might have to have a year or two under your belt to work for a McDonald's supplier because MdDonald's is kind of big time and all, but he would be working around the clock, but would be making good money. I don't plan on leaving my current job, but if I was to leave McDonald's supply house would be my next shot.

 

Oh Gotchya. We do that also but since we have a deposit we have to pick them up. Sucks sometimes if places aren't the cleanest.

 

The man is just simply looking out for his son.

I personally have never married and never had any children. If I had a son or a daughter, I too would be looking out for him or her.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

I used to do MBM which was Darden to Red Lobster Accounts on the Midatlantic for a while. It was a lot of finger printing. Plus setting up the rollers to the door. ANY product lost might cost back against your pay in the thousands of dollars potentially. These accounts go through a mil in food product each year each eating place.

In those days I was young with a back that wont quit, finger printing was not a problem until bone loss finally eroded and threatened my ability to do it. I guess you could say I contributed all my tomorrows into the trailer unloading over 25 years of my useful adult life. Im 50 now and would not want to put a load on that back for it might fail. Snap. THAT is something I naturally prefer to avoid.

There is a great amount of robotics involved now in moving freight. My first was Shedds Butter in Baltimore loading for Hunts Point. Case after case after case came in on the conveyer to my trailer dock, flopped onto a spinning pallet and when 5x 9 layers high auto shrink wrapped and forklift shoved it into the reefer, this was late 80's I was very tickled and happy not to be loading the #### things all day there. Now.. the unloading in NYC at hunts point would prove to be something else. But when you are 21 you could load 48K and then unload same in a single day and night after a 10 hour run. Or even carry 5000 boxes of spices. Yes 5000 of them, all of which is checked against bills of lading thicker than a bible. Fun times.

Back to beer. A friend of mine did that work and very well. But ultimately the amount of work must not have agreed with him and he was one of the big strong ones I know in life. If HE did not want to continue beer work after a number of years then what are they doing to people in that part of the industry?

Finally but not last. I grew up in a tavern situation when young, beer haulers delivered KEGS almost as big as a man sometimes through the basement ramp to be hooked up to CO2 lines on order. Ive always enjoyed watching these people move the Kegs and cases not knowing I will also be doing the same out of St Louis hauling Beer myself from time to time later in life.

I can point also to Cider in white house of Virginia I think, or was it near Martinsburg WVa? These things came in 1 gallon jugs made of glass. Moving 6 from big wood to small wood required gentle set down, otherwise if you got tired and put em down hard CRACK~! cider on the dock now. All gone.

Good luck!