P&D Rookie Advice (Post yours)

Had a commercial paper route like that. Couldn't understand why no one liked it. It was short, very few returns, mostly bulk hotel accounts, or stores that were closed. So mostly, drop and dash.

 

One of our transit (line haul to all you LTL guys) drivers was telling me a few weeks ago our company hired a woman driver to work in the chain division there is to my knowledge one woman driver at GFS I don't know where she works if I had to guess I think she works up in New England and she's got to be in her late 40's early 50's to boot, and she is a broadline driver, however female drivers for delivery are few and far between, anyhow our chain operations hired a female driver and I guess they must have trained her or whatever and sent her on her way.

Anyhow the poor woman only lasted a day I guess. I don't know what run they had her on, but she didn't stay around very long. I don't know if it was more work then she wanted to do or she didn't like working at night I don't know what the case was, but she's gone now.

 

Hey Mike, what do you mean by broadline driver?

 

Ahh yes a chain driver is a driver who only does chain restaurants/chain accounts and is gone from the warehouse for days at a time and makes a lot of there deliveries at night.

Broadline is the other side of the food distribution world see with chains, chain restaurants have there own vendor agreements and really all the customized distributors do is warehouse the stuff and make the deliveries at the restaurant outlets.

Broadline is the general pool or stock pile that anyone can buy from. For instance Jenny's Diner cannot buy McDonald's French Fries from Golden State Foods, but Jenny's Diner can call up GFS and buy french fries from them out of the general stock pile and GFS offers a "broad line" of products and equipment for food service operations. So a broad line driver generally works during the day, works more local and doesn't really stay out for a night or two. So the trucks that are doing the schools, hospital's, ma's and pa's and places like that all your non-chain places and indepents are broad line trucks.

 

Great, thanks for the reply! I hadn't heard that term before. (But then I never worked food service.)

 

Time for a Bump.

Winter is here, to stay, for the foreseeable future.
SLOW DOWN.
Nothing in the box is worth your life. Let it take a few minutes longer to get where you are going.
Give the guy in front of you a little more room.
Turn your lights on. Just because you can see, doesn't mean you can BE seen.
Prepare for that two bit 4 wheeler who WILL pull out in front of you in order to SLOW YOU DOWN. They will do this.
Remember to go prepared in case the truck breaks down. Or you find yourself otherwise immobilized and possibly waiting for the hook to show.

OH yeah.

SLOW DOWN

 

First night of the week for me. Been socked in with this blizzard for three days.

 

OK, good advice, but what do you do with that greasy piece of wood or cardboard, when you aren't covering the fifth wheel with it?