Pepsi Interview Invite in Rhode Island

That 5 grand is nothing if you look at at it closly tho. And most trucking companies will remburse you for most if not all the money

 

if you go with Pepsi or even Coke, you will work all hours and do a lot of bull work, to get yourself on the list. what list? the union.

you may be a helper for a long, long time, and a relief driver as well, for a long long time, before you get a route. you most likely will be on the side door trucks, and be there a while. i had done some temp work at one of the soda companies, and it stank.

you had better like a union, cuz it's the only way you''re gonna get the job. and if not, they will work you to death with-in your probation time, and cut you loose.

 

How'd your interview go OP??

 

If your not willing to move to that area don't bother. If you go in as a relief driver with a Class B you'll most likely be a driver helper for a while and doing your class A training but you'll probably also run some routes in a bay truck since you can already drive those. Pepsi's (beverage in general) is a good deal. Go in earlyake a ton of stops go home. Pepsi is union so you'll have good pay and benefits but won't be worth it if you have a 3hr combined commute. Why do that THEN go OTR? Most guys do OTR to get experience to get local gigs. You'll most likely make more at Pepsi once your up and running than you would OTR and you be home every night.

 

Yea that commute on top of the work you would be doing would be a lot..

As for my Pepsi experience, I got rejected for both locations, my area has a lot of experienced drivers so they probably went with that..

You should check out Allied building and see if they have any positions open, it's all local 45-55 hr work week without much heavy lifting..

Got an interview with them tomorrow

 

Good call, a long commute plus a 14 hr day would not have worked out in the long run

 

I keep hearing about these 14-16 hour days. I work for Pepsi (5 plus years now) and I never work that long. Usually 6-9 hours - when it's 6 you still get paid for 8. It's really not as grueling as people portray it.

It's work, that's for sure, but you'll make good money - ($60-$75 k your 1st year) and be home in time for dinner every night and have weekends off. It's not the best job in the world but you could do a lot worse

 

I guess that would depend on the location you work out of.

When I did Pepsi, back in 2007 or so, I had a route that covered the SW part of Albuquerque on Monday & Wednesday, Valencia county (30 - 45 miles south of Albuquerque) on Tuesday and Thursday, and Socorro county (100 miles south of Albuquerque) on Wednesday. I NEVER had less than 12 stops, sometimes as many as 22, and when doing Valencia and Socorro counties, I would put between 100 - 250 miles on the truck.

Wednesdays were always fun because I had to hit the truck stop in Lemitar (little town just north of Socorro) then the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus. Driving down from Abq and those two stops alone took about 4 hours and then I still had to do the rest of the route which included driving out to Magdalena and servicing the rest of Socorro. On average, Wednesday was a 14 hour day while the rest of the week could be anywhere from 10 - 14. Granted, that was almost 10 years ago and a lot has probably changed, but I definitely did shifts like that.

 

Yeah, I had 25 stops the other day. I was done by 1:30. I had to wait for a coupe pizzerias to open so that held me up. Now, my first year? It was all 11-12 hour days (I very rarely worked over 12) but as I learned the routes and the job I got faster.

I tell the new guys that start- 6 months of HE L L !! After that it really does start to get easier. But you're right, a lot of it does depend on area.