No place could ever top Webster at C&S

Is C&S in Houston or also other places?

 

I worked for Webster out of Newburgh back when they first opened the Grand Union warehouse there. Sure, they paid as you said but the dispatcher also did everything in pencil and they pushed you beyond hours often. Yes, for grocery distribution it was good, but I soon went back to car hauling where I belonged.

Only reason Webster lost the account was Michael DeSilva, the owner got divorced from his wife, the daughter of Richard Cohen, the sole owner of C&S. If he could have kept the marriage together the company would have still been around. Webster, Brattleboro Haulage, B&H and all the other names were all running by the grace of his father-in-law.

 

Most grocery outfits usually outsource the transportation department to trucking companies.

 

Yes, same C&S, they have grown into the largest wholesale grocery distributor in the US.
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I worked at Associated Grocers for awhile and USF Logistics took over the transportation department ,then Greatwide took it from them. That's a common theme with grocery outfits.

 

They did, in a family way, until Michael was not family any more. Then the big boys came in, actually even before then. As they went thru rapid growth in the early 2000's they started using J.B. Hunt, Cowan Systems and others to provide transportation outside of their core New England base. I think the first location that was not a Webster Company was the Bethlehem PA warehouse, it was Schneider when it opened then JB. Also, Maryland was Cowan Systems.