Frito-Lay

Congratulations! If they are like the folks were at Frito Louisville, it will be a very casual experience and no stress. Good luck and I hope you get the job since it was a great place to work. I have nothing but great memories of my years with Frito and still have many friends from there.

 

Good to hear, good luck on the interview. Keep us posted on how it went !

 

Worked as a driver for 10yrs. retired in 2011. Good pay . Over 50,000 first year. Start on bottom of seniority list. Mostly unloading trailer then bring back to plant. Sometimes one night layovers. Runs go out all hours of a 24hr period. Hotel is paid for. A lot of physical labor ,but excellent pay and benefits.

 

I talked to them last week in Topeka about a job and they told me I would be on extra board driving list for like 2-3 years. Only taking what was left over and a different truck every time I went out. Everyday I would have to wait by the phone and they would call me when a load was ready and I would have to leave within an hour, any day of the week, any time of the day. Then they said I would drive 50% of the time and have to unload 50% of the time. I hate running team, and they said I would have to do team loads a few times a month. No thanks. To unpredictable of a schedule for me. If a person could live that lifestyle they are a great company to work for.

 

Hope it goes well for you. It sucks sitting around and waiting to find out. I'm starting at 0600 tomorrow. And that sounds about right with the numbers because they told me they generally hire about 1 out of 7 people they interview. Who knows how much of that ends up being problems with what comes back on background checks and if people have lied, failed a drug test or whatever dumb things you often read about people doing on here.

 

Haul bulk loads from different plants for them, all loads are around 4,500 pounds and is loaded in a 53 foot trailer floor load to the doors. I haul altitude sensitive loads, some bags will crush at high altitudes so specific routes must be followed.

All the drivers in the rigs seem to like it and it is pre loaded from what I see and hook and go.