Mondelez?

Good. i think it's best you, and everyone else, stay away from food delivery.

 

This may be true for Foodservice...but not for Grocery Private Fleets. They're one of those...don't need to advertise type jobs. They don't need to look for drivers...you look for them. Easy work... primarily no touch freight or forklift unloads...delivering to your own Grocery stores....

 

Yes, what i meant by food delivery is where you have to wheel it in on a handtruck because the customer is too stupid, lazy, or lame to have a dock.

i didn't mean truckload grocery (which is the right way to do it). i would recommend this type to trucking. The only bad thing might be that you might have to start off on night shift.

 

Have you looked into Frito-Lay? That's supposed to be a great gig along those lines.

 

Here's a list of various food companies out their.....


Bimbo Bakeries....


Flowers Foods....


McKee Foods....


And many many others. Hostess Brands still runs to this day...but they just distribute strickly cakes. Many of the IBC products are bought out by different companies now.

Most of these food companies distribute their products through DSD, Vendors or Merchandiser. Not all, but most do. Very good money to be made...whether it's the delivery side or sales side...or both.

 

Frito Lay is hiring like crazy out here in NY, I've had my resume out and 4 different recruiters from different branches have emailed me. They are hiring for route sales, meaning go in and pack out too. All of the openings can be attributed to their pay structure change, no more commission, straight salary so no more OT even on weekends or holidays, so a lot of their guys are just doing their 8 and going home. There were news stories on TV about a chip shortage in NYC recently, that's where they started this new pay scheme. I was gonna interview until I saw that, I'm not going to be the guy that works cheaper than a 20 year veteran and let's the company kiss more shareholder ### at driver's expenses. Sounded great until that news, I've been doing foodservice for a few years, with Poland Spring for a few before that, chips seemed inviting.

 

@SPEEDY:
i did not mean to turn you away from UPSF. i would not say the situation is "toxic," yet. It's in shambles, but not toxic---yet; The real conflicts are between upper/regional management and middle, terminal, and operations managers.

Either we will sort things out, or we won't.

Now, it's true, the new contract is up in the air, AND, it's past the due date, so there's that.

2) i still believe truckload grocery is a good way to go despite possibly low starting pay and the likely requirement to work late night/3rd shift hours when first starting off.