pepsi vs smith

if you dont mind me asking how did you land the pepsi gig

 

I worked for a reefer company one time & it was close to Pepsi/Coke/Beer distributors. The reefer company hired a lot of their drivers and they ALL/100% had bad backs. They all said, they would get a route built up & paying well, then the company would split the route up and give part of it to some brown noser. Keep looking and researching. With no OTR experience or CDL school, consider 6 mos with a company that will train you and give the experience needed. Central Refrigerated or Panther Expedite or others some drivers on this forum can recommend. Talk to some cement companies and ask which tanker companies deliver their dry bulk cement powder & flyash to them; that's local stuff and pays pretty good. Sometimes they will hire CDL drivers without OTR experience. Grocery companies will hire you with no OTR experiece. Check Careerbuilder.

I'm not familiar with Smith, you mentioned, but if it looks good, put in the application.

 

is only been two weeks. it'll take time to get use to the work. i worked for coke for 11 years and when i frst started it was hard work. i wasn't high enough seniority to deliver to the big stores, so i did the small stores except when i worked saturdays. just take your time and don,t get hurt. as far as the 2 liters,i always stacked 8 cs on the hand truck. other driverd were doing 10. unfortunately i made a mistake and got terminated. but love it while it lasted

 

You were born in '91 right?

Pull ya skirt down, kid.

 

Walk across the street to Central and apply once you get your "A". They are always looking for drivers, lol.

If can't handle the work and want to quit after only two weeks, quit now and go get your tanker endorsement and apply at the many companies running water trucks to the well sites around here. All you need is a "B" and tanker.

 

Apply with the well companies hauling water. They are looking now and word is they are going to be hammered with work real soon. They are many in the area. And if you got hurt years ago and this kind of work is rough on you, don't do it. You are only going to make it worse on yourself. You know its rough work. Once you get an injury, it gets worse.

 

Most companies won't take you with out going to a school. The ones that will want 1 year of local driving to be considered or 6 months otr. If your always tired from that job are you gonna have the stamina to run 11 hours at a time odd hours of the day? Might want to look for another line of work.