Frito-Lay

did you hear what the battery said to the potato chip?

"im eveready! You free-to-lay!"

 

I hope you enjoy your new career with a great company. It's not a perfect job, but there is no such thing. My years there were very good, profitable, hard working years. Yes I had some aches and pains while working there and still do, but who doesn't. While all plants may not be the same, ours treated us like family and most of my best friends were my co-workers. Even though I enjoy my carhaul job now and make good money, I would still be working at Frito had they expanded our plant and not shut it down.

 

Glad to hear the great news ! Hope it works out great for you peterbiltman.

 

Peterbiltman, I came across this site strictly by accident. Sometimes it takes perseverance to get a good job. I started at the Vancouver Washington plant on 9/11/1978 and retired on March 26, 2010. I applied there because a fellow I worked with at another job had started work there and I ran into him and told him I was looking, and he said that "Frito was the best job and the hardest job he had ever had". That was enough for me. I went in to talk with the 'Driver Supervisor" on Monday and on Thursday he called me and asked if I could start on Monday. (Things were a lot different 36 years ago). But as you can see, I enjoyed it and stayed there for over 31 years. I was driver 26 when I started. In ten years we had over 70 drivers. Then we opened another plant in Salt Lake City, and then a one in Modesto, CA, but they didn't lay off any drivers, just let the numbers decrease by attrition.

The drive vs. unload percentage depends completely where you work. When I started we covered 17% of the continental United States out of our plant. We had delivery points that were over 1000 miles away (Miles City, Mt.) We serviced all of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and a couple of spots in Nevada, Wyoming and Northern California, plus Alaska by container from Seattle. As we picked up market share which required more plants, our 'service area' decreased, but we still had many runs of over 500 miles round trip. The two closest plants to us are still 660 and 770 miles away. The run I took most often at the end (I was #1 for almost five years) was 9-9.5 hours driving and about 2.5 hours unloading. (That was only three days a week. The other two days were somewhat shorter)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the company as much as I did. I am now comfortably retired and enjoying not having to get up at 2:30 am. .

 

I am a current driver and things are changing fast, with the driver shortage upon us they are hiring less qualified drivers all of the routes are put together in Dallas they hire and promote managers who are not qualified and have no people skills you need to be well versed with the DOT rules because they will violate them in some cases just to get the load delivered the older high seniority guys had it made, the worst thing Frito did was phase out the pension and replaced it with a glorified 401K it is more of a PepsiCo influenced company now it was a lot better when Pepsi didn't interfere good luck driver I hope it works out for you!! UOTE="ExFritoDriver, post: 4600307, member: 164636"]Peterbiltman, I came across this site strictly by accident. Sometimes it takes perseverance to get a good job. I started at the Vancouver Washington plant on 9/11/1978 and retired on March 26, 2010. I applied there because a fellow I worked with at another job had started work there and I ran into him and told him I was looking, and he said that "Frito was the best job and the hardest job he had ever had". That was enough for me. I went in to talk with the 'Driver Supervisor" on Monday and on Thursday he called me and asked if I could start on Monday. (Things were a lot different 36 years ago). But as you can see, I enjoyed it and stayed there for over 31 years. I was driver 26 when I started. In ten years we had over 70 drivers. Then we opened another plant in Salt Lake City, and then a one in Modesto, CA, but they didn't lay off any drivers, just let the numbers decrease by attrition.

The drive vs. unload percentage depends completely where you work. When I started we covered 17% of the continental United States out of our plant. We had delivery points that were over 1000 miles away (Miles City, Mt.) We serviced all of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and a couple of spots in Nevada, Wyoming and Northern California, plus Alaska by container from Seattle. As we picked up market share which required more plants, our 'service area' decreased, but we still had many runs of over 500 miles round trip. The two closest plants to us are still 660 and 770 miles away. The run I took most often at the end (I was #1 for almost five years) was 9-9.5 hours driving and about 2.5 hours unloading. (That was only three days a week. The other two days were somewhat shorter)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the company as much as I did. I am now comfortably retired and enjoying not having to get up at 2:30 am. .[/QUOTE]

 

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I've been here now for about 8 years the guys that had 25 plus years in had it made the company is going to a GES system and doing away with the box trucks with GES you will be taking a 53 ft with a lift gate and delivering the large super market chains which will suck and also management has changed along with the rules and regs the old policies are gone sad to say Frito has and is becoming just another food delivery company it used to be a fun place to work but now it's time to move on I'll be going into business for myself as an owner operator I've had enough of the unappreciative jobs!!

 

Wow, crazy post...crazy life, how we can take a lifetime to bang out 30 years, then talk about it now like it was 30 days..Hearin a man talk about day one, then last day 3 decades later...trip out man,,this whole clock calendar thing