There are several food distribution companies in my area and a couple of them have Shuttle positions open from time to time. The most recent advertisement is a shuttle run that goes 128 miles from the distribution center.
I thought I understood what those drivers did: take loaded pups to a meet-and-greet point where 2 delivery drivers hook up to the loaded trailers and go deliver them, and you take their empty trailers back to the distribution center to be reload for the next day, wash, rinse, and repeat.
However, the little short run has me curious. It's only 128 miles, so it's 2 - 2.5 hour drive at most, then another 2 - 2.5 hrs back, depending on traffic, etc. It would be tough to make a living on 25 hours/wk (assuming 5 hours paid per day and a 5 day work week), so what does the normal food service shuttle driver do to make extra hours for the day? Would he normally work on the docks or does he take one of the loaded trailers and deliver it himself? I suppose he might even be able to make it back to the DC and grab another set going to the same swap point for the area.
Food Service Shuttle Runs
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by 88 Alpha, Oct 9, 2018.
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My area and my company our shuttle guys do 540 miles a day. 4 day work week. Pay is kinda low. For 4 days barley over 1k a week. Some I think squeeze a extra day. It’s all day shift though. It’s a separate board also so you can hire directly to a shuttle driver here. You can’t get bumped by a delivery driver either they go to the bottom if they switch. Also not much experience required either to do shuttles either. Most new drivers train on shuttles to get their miles in.
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Could be scary doing shuttle for food dc as they r always short on drivers they could make us take a trailer and start making del
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Anymore it's hard to take shuttle drivers and make them do delivery work, a lot of our shuttle drivers used to be route drives, but haven't done routes in years and they don't even have there own wheelers and there not tuned in to how the scanner system works and issuing credits and stuff. Usually when were short on delivery drivers management on the delivery side has to pick up the slack. Now I'm not saying never, but it's rare I think one time one of our transit guys went out with a manager and they knocked out a route together, but for a transit guy to go out on a route, would be very very rare. The problem you run into is by the time the transit guy gets back in the morning his hours are shot and then you need him to run at night time operationally it doesn't work.
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