Opinions working in coca cola class A

People take that Coke and Pepsi thing way to serious. If you work for Coke or Pepsi and wanted to drink a competitors product on the clock, just get you a plain Styrofoam cup and drink whatever you want. Its not like they re going to come around to ask what you have in the cup

 

All they asked of us was we would appreciate it if you didn’t consume a competitors product in a company vehicle. I drank whatever was paying my bills except for water until they gave in and provided dasani free.

 

I used to work at Pepsi well Buffalo Rock which was a Pepsi bottler. I had to laugh and shake my head when new guys come in with Powerade, Sprite, and Minute Maid bottles. They had to pour it in a cup and finish it and was told that was their only warning

 

People who take cola, or food service jobs , basically slave plantation work in the trucking industry. What's the long term goal? I highly doubt most people want to spend 30 years lumping 40k pounds by hand every night . When I see guys like well I'm going to do a year otr tanker than get into fuel hauling , that makes sense and it's something people do long term .

 

I started in the early 90’s when I was fairly young still and it was a good job for this area. Start at 5am and done by 1-2pm most days making good money. It paid my bills for many years. When I started to get some age on my bones I leaned toward transport instead of delivery and once I had some experience pulling doubles I jumped to LTL linehaul. IMO it’s a young mans game but there was a time when I enjoyed the work and the customers.

 

That’s a little bit of an extreme comparison. I made great money doing foodservice delivery. I’m pretty sure “slave plantation work” pays nothing...

 

Right because slave plantations are still here in America running at full speed and it's totally legal........... How many more years do you plan on doing food service ?

 

I challenge you to find a typical 32ft. CSD side loader unloaded by hand that scales out at 40k and is pulled by the typical single screw, much less is able to carry such a capacity. Doesn't exist. Average sideloader loadout is around 500 cases, and with a case weight of let's just say 45lbs/cs, you're looking at 22,500lbs of product. Even at a 600cs loadout, thats not even 30k.

The industry has long been in the works of shifting to pup boxes with little tiny electric pallet jacks to do most if not all the work to get the product into the customer's door. Hell, the majority of PepsiCo's GTM platform is now on this same system, dubbed GeoBox.

 

Do you plan on retiring doing Pepsi delivery? I see more truckers than I can count with 20-30 years exp but have yet to see someone with that much exp in food service or bottle delivery

 

I have a cdla
But do to fmcsa and how long they take to get an spe certification.
My med card isnt valid.

Is this job something that can be done without a med card.
Like intrastate that doesnt require med card?