Have you worked for a food service company?

I worked at a company called Frachise Food Service out of Columbus Ohio. We did a lot of KFC's In the middle of the night in cities like Pittsburg and St.louis. Some of these stores in very bad parts of town. We have had more than a few drivers robbed!!! Before you go to a food service company find out if they do key drops or not. I went right out of school to food service now I have enough years to not have to do it anymore.

 

i work for reinharts food service. hard work some key drops we service subways.be prepared for long hours but are home every night just to tired to do anything also leave early in the morning.

 

were do you work mack sounds like a good deal this job is wearing me out had 70 hrs in this week.

 

Currently and for the last 12 years I have been in F/S, yes it is very labour intensive. After 28 years OTR, I got into this and for the first 3-4 weeks wondered what I had done to myself, "every" muscle in my body hurt from phsical exertion, up stairs down stairs, long walks pushing an overloaded two wheeler and keeping it balanced. Now at 60 y/o I am in excellent shape pysically, get to spend every weekend off with my family and grandkids.
With seniority comes better runs and easier deliveries. It has to be earned with reliability and sweat, Good Luck with your choices..

 

He won't tell you since he prefers to keep that info to himself, but it's a company along the lines of Roadway, Yellow, ABF and others that do deliveries and shipping. Look for the companies on the highway doing 28 foot doubles and you will find some possibilities. Some of those companies are unionized, some aren't. You might find yourself doing dockwork to get a foot in the door with them, but it is work with daily hometime.

 

Hey, I work for a food service company called MBM out of Columbus Ohio. Got my CDL's all most a year ago and didnt want to go over the road and this is what i found. The work is hard and i am far from lazy used to doing labor work, I think one thing to think about is how do you feel about driving a few hours unloading some stores and driving some more and unloading some more, tougher than it sounds. Driving in its self wears you out but combined with unloading 40,000 pounds in a couple of days makes it worse. I put 70 hours a week in on extra board and still they want me to go-go-go. I just got home this morning, drove from Columbus to Nashville unloaded 3 stores abot 20,000 pounds then got up at 2 am drove an hour unloaded 4 stores and drove home 2 day route i had 38,600 pounds in a day and half to unload. Being on extra board where you will start you take what they have you may do that much in one day route or 3 day's it depends. If you ask me the money really isnt worth all that you do but i do have more home time than a otr driver does. I am looking forward to getting my year in and maybe moving on. I was hoping for a bid but i was to low on the list so i had no choice but to stay on extra board and they love to run those guys as much as they can. Oh and in Nashville it was 105 degree's out side yesterday and in the winter when its cold your still out there. One guy mentioned about being robbed i have been luck so far but i have talked to drivers who have been and my dad works for a food service company and has been a couple of times. If you do go for it my advice is keep 2 wallets with you your real one in truck and a throw away one in your pocket maybe have a couple of bucks in it. Well good luck hope we all helped you out.

 

Oh I was careful. I wasn't gonna rat you out.