McLane Foodservice Drivers

I've worked for Maines Pepsi and been doing Beer for the lady 7 years I'm hoping to get back into the food delivery cuz easier than Beer but just as hard

 

I work for Mclane grocery side and most work is done at night to beat the traffic and customer traffic. I've gotten use to it plus I only work two days a week

 

I work for mclane food service dc 103 i hate this job Mclane sucks .

 

That's too bad.

I'm happy, for the most part. I did get stuck in an automatic Freightliner the other day and couldn't find a way out of it.

 

Besides the 5-0s I'm good. I'm just ready to step out on my own. We stay hiring new people

 

I haven't had any visitors in 5-6 years. I don't think they like me or something. Or maybe they do.

 

Any info on mclane in Cordele GA

 

Just was checking into this forum....

After being with Mclane for over a year now, 3 months as a helper, and driving 9 months on my own route, I must say that it is VERY hard work. You earn everything you make. It's not just physical strength necessary, but physical & mental endurance needed to go out twice or three times a week to sling 1100-1400 cases at 40k-42k lbs a shift. After you get past that, you have to be mentally calm to stay under the pressures of driving through varying environments (typical truck driver requirements) small as #### parking lots, (taco-bell, pizza hut, kfc, bojangles, long john silvers, BWW) and working in pitch black dark running in and out of stores in sketchy cities. I worked in D.C., Baltimore, and PA during all hours of the night. Fell straight out the trailer one night. Smh.

As of now, I run a PA route through the snow, sleet, and rain twice a week. PA city roads, and parking lots are tight as hell and has significantly improved my behind the wheel skills a tremendous amount. Being in a lot filled with 100 cars and pedestrians trying to dodge a 48' tractor trailer and not to mention cars zig zaggin out in front of you is a thing of the norm. For me, there was no other choice but to become a better driver and I'm thankful of that. I does get annoying at times though.

The work is grueling and don't let them fool you, we still have to hunt down cases due to pallets turned backwards and stickers mislabeled too. Every job has its B.S. but I'm thankful to have a job as this has been the most money I've ever made being 32 years old with no student debt, low rent, and low bills each month. I should do 65k this year alone driving at 9 months. Next year 70-75k. I'm only at driver 2 in which the scale goes to driver 4 and then driver 5 if you run extra board (big money)

So I've taken the good with the bad, sketchy untrustworthy dispatchers and managers, hard labor, grueling work weather, crazy drivers, and just all kinds of unimaginable issues here and there, and have made it out unscathed imo. Made some good friends along the way though. This job has made me tough no doubt and has put some greebacks in my pocket indeed. So for that, I thank God.

 

Yea. Food service certainly has crappy hours, long hours, and mimimal hometime. Good money, management sometomes doesnt act as of they have a clue. They view drivers as expendable labor. That's about it. Peace.

 

Anybody here from mclane midwest? If you had 24 years of seniority, which routes in Illinois and indiana would you probably be bidding for?