Different types of local routes

Cheney is a small regional company there not a big multi-state or national company like US Foods or Sysco.

 

Yeah I had been to Florida a couple of times early on in my adult life about a decade+ ago and even as a 20-21 year old just passing through I kind of thought, besides retail jobs that don't pay very well and some infrastructure stuff, there's really not that much heavy manufacturing or industry like that and I always thought what do people do for work down in Florida. I know they have some sugar production and farming and stuff, but it unless you were just wealthy already and migrated there from someplace else, which is the case for most Floridians 90% of the people in Florida are from Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania LoL and retired or already wealthy from jobs and business up north I really didn't know what you did in Florida as a regular family.

 

I know it's handled differently in Florida (my wife touts from there) but here in Ohio, anymore it's all union to my knowledge. Bidding and all that fun stuff, before you get a ''route.' I owned my OWN refuse company back in the '80's (yeah, I'm old...sorry) and ended up selling it; all the big guys were taking over; kinda like is happening again, now.

Couldn't hurt to go to the 'hiring event' however. Rural trash hauling doesn't pay as well as city .. right Mike? and I'm not sure of your locale. In NYC, those guys make BANK but I sure wouldn't move to NYC even at YOUR age, to negotiate and navigate the city, at all. Just my 2cents~!

 

Wife used to haul boat props (new and recon) and underwater shafting (hotshot, of course) ALL over the state, to various marinas, and builders. (Think, SeaRay et al..) She got in through someone she knew back then.

You could look into Tropicana, even though they aren't close; they have hiring boards, as well; not too far south of you.

 

Residential Pick Up or Commercial End. Republic will put you through a fairly

Residential or Commercial?

Republic if they hire you will put you through a fairly lengthy training process, modern day refuse equipment is extremely expensive, to buy and maintain and takes a lot of training as an operator to operate efficiently.

You'll have to go and they will train you on the equipment in class rooms and stuff.

Then if it's a residential bid you'll probably be on "bulk" collection which is all the treelawn type trash that goes in the back of a rear load garbage truck. It's heavier and worse then food service. The garbage stinks and the routes are big and heavy. 750 addresses a day is the average.

Now, the one thing about Republic is they no longer bid on at least up here manual collection routes for just regular trash pick up. Which ha-ha has become an issue for cheap municipalities that only hired republic because they were cheap, but don't want to automate because the seniors of the city can't handle the big 96 gallon automated cans. If you notice the better suburbs and cities not all the time, but the better suburbs and cities usually don't hire garbage companies to collect the trash. There's a reason Naples, Florida doesn't hire a company to do it.

Anyhow front load collection is the dumpsters behind stores and stuff, lots of tight corner and driving 100-200 cans a day lots of ally ways and stuff. Constantly driving in reverse all day long. Lots of close calls every day. Pay is alright.

I know in Florida it's the law that yard waste must not go to the regular landfill so you could be on a yard waste collection route again 750-800 houses a day just go till the truck breaks down and break downs are often and frequent.

Where I live the city is broke and has a terrible balance sheet and shut down it's city run garbage collection in 2009 because the city was so mismanaged. We have Republic because they offered cheap service and cheap is what we got, sometimes they come on time, other times they are late, some times the get garbage all over the place, sometimes there trucks break down in the middle of the street and almost lose an entire load of recyclables in the middle of the street. Now the city next door to me doesn't use a contractor, there equipment isn't typical broke, they usually have all the collection licked by noon and there residents don't come home to a bunch of litter in the street.

As a customer I can't stand republic and have made it my mission to get the city council to throw them out. As a worker bee though, there probably okay I know up here they pay about $60K a year and the people who work there I've ran into a couple of them seem to be nice and appreciative. Just get ready to lift about 32,000lbs a day.

 

Yeah the guys who work for New York City Department of Sanitation make good money, it's very well paying job. However it's difficult to get on with the DSNY you have to take a civil service examination, be placed in a spot, pass all kinds of drug and background exams and it's all union so it's all length of service and "how much time you got" type of a deal. It's not even close to worth to moving to New York City for.

Now the private garbage haulers in New York City barely make enough money to buy food scraps out of garbage cans and the work is extremely dangerous it's mostly at night and your chances of dying on the job are immense I wouldn't move to New York for that job either.

 

Tourism states have low paying retail, fast food, hospitality jobs. Every place has some office jobs and jobs in hospitals and schools. It's also difficult for cops to get hired in FL because there are far more cops from other places moving to FL.

 

Wife's brother bid for the job when he was going to HVAC trade school; still lives in NY, but LI now.. didn't get in, probably a good thing. Completed his HVAC training, became a Supt. and got scholarships for all 3 of his kids at Hofstra U., where he was based.

 

Try some 2nd chance companies if that job hopping is hurting you.
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