Pepsi or Lowe's?

go with pepsi. better job opportunities in the future. union job, better pay and way more benefits. you can get onto a list of trailer line haul work. nearly everyone starts with bulk (store deliveries and set ups).

 

{Posted this in your other thread, too}

I was a bay delivery driver in Albuquerque about 8 years ago.

At that time I was at this location, we were paid a salary of $500 per week. We also got a "bonus" of 10 cents per case and 50 cents per 5 gallon box of syrup (goes in the fountain drink machines). So if I had to unload 1200 cases, I would get a bonus of $120, then there would normally be about 20 boxes of syrup, so that's another $10. 1200 cases doesn't seem like a lot, however, my route had me loaded with between 10k lbs. - 13k lbs. of product and it was all hand unload.

Every.
Single.
Case.
Unloaded.
By.
Hand.

You get a two-wheel dolly (hand truck or whatever you want to call it) and that's it. No back support braces, no gloves, nada. I did it during a New Mexico summer which meant temps in the afternoon were near or over 100°. It was extremely physical work since you have to unload each item that the customer ordered, place it on the dolly, wheel it into the establishment, rotate stock, and then remove any expired or damaged product. I had the route that handled the SW part of Albuquerque (may as well be in Mexico by that point), all of Valencia county (Los Lunas, Belen, Veguita, Meadow Lake, etc.) and also Socorro, which is where New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is. If you've seen Mythbusters, you've probably seen the rocket sled a few times...that's at NM Tech.

Anyway, the geographical area coupled with the amount of product I had to deliver and the amount of stops (normally 14 -18 but as high as 22) meant that I would start around 03:00 and wouldn't be done most days until 17:00 - 18:00. That meant I was pulling 14 or 15 hour days most of the time. If you figure an average of $125 per day in "bonuses", plus base salary, that worked out to about $1000 per week. But break that back down by the hours I was pulling in, about 65 - 70 in a given 5 day week, means I was making a little over $15 per hour. But I would be home in the afternoon long enough to shower, wolf down dinner, and then be in bed no later than 19:00.

Granted, that was several years ago in a totally different part of the country, so things may have changed since then. Just giving you a little heads up along the way.

 

How did you get local job offers with no experience?

 

It just takes leg work and knocking on doors. No experience is required for most local jobs even though the websites have "xyz experience required." Phone calls won't help; you must show up in person and ask for an application and interview.
Sygma Network is a good example; they hire drivers with only a cdl permit. Same with Gordon Food Service and McLane Food Service.

 

Sysco, US Foods, and Reinhart hire CDL permit holders also, at least in my area.

 

By applying...............
Happens all the time

 

Why did you post the same question twice?

 

Nothing has changed; that's why I would never do local work. I tried it and stayed exhausted and moody.

 

Hey Pepsi guys

How long after the interview did you get an offer??

I've got 2 interviews with Pepsi (each in different locations) on Wednesday..

And is the pay really $17.45 for relief drivers?? I thought it was more than that..