McLane employment and strength test questions.

Dean1986 · Jan 11, 2018

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Food Service is going to TEAR. YOU. UP. being fresh from school.

It is one of the hardest work physically possible in trucking that I know of other than dead loading and unloading twice a day every day the full 48K pounds in certain freight lanes.

You will have to be very accurate in your count. If you cannot keep a count that is to the T you are going to come up over, short and damaged somewhere in your entire load. That is probably billable to you if you cannot account for it.

you will be getting into tight places with that big truck. if it's a sleeper truck god help you. It will be a game of inches getting around stuff, peoples cars and everything else without bending your steering, rears or bashing stuff.

If you aint fit now, and you managed to survive food service without losing your fingers (Conveyor metal belts, stands etc) and without losing your money in stolen food products etc. And without dropping from a undetected physical flaw or failure in your body... and without losing it mentally getting into and out of tight spots with a large semi. You think school was tight? HA....

Im not here to be difficult. The one picture I share is a Food service delivery to a red lobster inside central Jersey it composed of the last 6 pallets for the weekend route of 4 red lobsters out of MBM in Aberdeen Maryland. Much of the boxes were lobsters, crab king and other exotic (Very expensive) foods from around the world. Prior to this last delivery when hunting this particular stop I had a man in a panel van try to breach my trailer to steal the lobster. I knocked a few knots on him and tossed the box (120 pounds) back into the trailer No law involved but it's my money and I wont lose it to some scumbag.

The money is very very very good. But boy howdy you are going to WORK. I don't care if you are Paul Bunyan you will work. Some places wont hire if you show weakness or other flaws that is considered a liability to your need to work.

I strongly suggest you put aside your apparent need to make a income NOW (Feeling emotional pressures from bills etc) and carefully consider what part of trucking is best for you.

I tell you a secret. When confronted with the strength test, you need to find a way to get angry inside of yourself and then focus that power. If you cannot do it and are too happy, lazy, weak or otherwise snowflaky then you wont get it. Ive managed to do good work moving much stuff simply because I think about that stupid dispatcher that week and I am instantly very angry. Without killing people I choose to focus against the task at hand with the extra power anger provides.

At some point if you do this kind of physical work, your body must begin to break down. If you have not stacked a percentage of that income now you will have nothing to fall back on when some years into the future your body has had enough of it.
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Wow spot on sir, ive been doing it for 10 months now. I love the job, am getting weary of the company. Very 1984ish, you always have to stay on your A game with the company and fly under the radar. The kangaroo court of the transportation department is draconian and at times brutal.
I was a roofer for years and the physicality and strain on the body is similar. Which I happen to love.

bentstrider83 · Jan 11, 2018

I guess the horror stories from this thread and their "split days off" policies ultimately made me flake out on the job offer there up in Aurora. The recruiter guy even seems a little peeved when I talked to him the second time around. As for the strength test, it seems quite similar to the one I had to do for pre-employment physical for CA Dept of Correction's back in 2006.
I'm not in the best shape in the moment, but I figure some light gym trips and such will get me back into the swing of things as opposed to getting whooped around by the physical and time constraints of this particular job.

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