Moving from beverage to food delivery?

This is the most sane reply so far. It’s ridiculous how many people are saying he should have just said yes to $20/hr and blindly hoped it’s actually better than that.

 

To be fair on not taking the Sysco job at 20hr it could been a non union shop. Sounds like a shuttle only position. Which being non union shop they can offer it off the bat for peanuts. But you got to ask these questions. Some companies and their drivers don’t put their pay out there still. I hate it but it’s kinda the old school ways. Even in this social media age. So if it’s a reputable company I wouldn’t turn it down til you’re in the door and have the actual facts. Sucks but that’s how the cookie crumbles in trucking.

I was told when I hired on Reddaway my base pay was 45k a year Linehaul. .39 cpm. This was back in 2012. Also I couldn’t be picky at the time. I took the job cause of the research that was out there for Linehaul. I was averaging 70-80k back then. I wasn’t work 6 days a week either.

 

Nobody said he should have accepted it blindly. Just should've asked questions before dismissing it out of hand.

 

Makes sense. When I worked at US Foods there terminal in Grand Junction Co was a rental space. They parked their trucks at a rental yard. Had no building. Was remote.


The yard you applied for probably a remote shuttle yard. They can hire for local delivery also remotely but then it’ll probably be union so the runs go by seniority and pay goes up so they can hire. Something like that. Some towns or areas have 1-5 trucks only if it’s a small area.

Also when I worked at Mclane. Denver serviced Albuquerque NM. No warehouse in that city. Routes would come out of Denver. We’d drive down layover then deliver the next day, layover and go back to Denver. Now they shuttle trailers from Denvers warehouse and have local guys deliver from what I heard.

 

I dont work for sysco so I can't say 100% if that's the truth. The sysco guys I do know personally did work out of a drop yard and the wearhouse was Olathe/kc and they all made dip pay.