Sysco Hiring

it is a revolving door in Canton,Mi (Detroit). Two tier wage scale, digging for gold(cases) in time sensitive loading. Drivers only grossing 1100 and busting your back. Funny how the Chicago driver with a strong union now make 30 an hour, time half after 8. My buddies are making an actual living wage. Not a fan of unions, but proof is in the contract. Buddies in Columbia, SC making 2k a week, buddies in Charlotte making around 1300. Every Sysco house pay is different, messed up.

 

I was at Baltimore i just left because they destroyed the money. Although we made 22.16 a hour the case pay was better but the put in a new program called dip that caused us to make significantly less.

 

A local sysco driver I talked to said he made the money but.......they pushed right up to and past the legal hours so that he was often worried about being fined by dot,

 

How is the interview process in person do they take you on a test drive and do you have to do an inspection on their truck before they take you out

 

I work for GFS and we have two warehouse in Flordia and I've always said if they ever have an opening temporarily of course because I love living up north and here on the boarder line east coast-mid Atlantic, but if they ever needed temporary transit or volume truck help down in Miami or Ocala, I would be right there sign me up.

 

I work for sygma network. Which is the sister company for sysco. I know by working with there drivers & having friends who drige for them. That they have off weekends unless your route dispatch on them. Avg work days is 10-12 hours, start time various between 4am-6am pay i believe is 55k start and some of there drivers are making up to 90k. Isnt a horrible company to work for but it is unloading freight by hand cart down ramps or liftgates. Is physically demanding.

 

Nothing wrong with the physical intensity as we could all use a little extra through other avenues we could reach. I recently applied and had a phone interview with Sysco out of Albuquerque. That was about a week ago and still haven't gotten anything else back from them yet. The milk hauling thing is still doing okay, but recently I had to start sharing my dairy and running cheeseplant loads due to another driver having his assigned dairy get sold by the farmer.10-12 hour days and weekends off seem quite alright.

 

If i could go a little off tangent, the problem isn't necessarily the physical work, it's that the work isn't made as easy as possible for the driver.

For example, you go down ramps----you got brakes on your handtruck?

Is the ramp at as shallow of an angle as possible-----could be if they would use low deck trailers.

Is the ramp as light as possible/easy to setup and store. If not, why not?

Then you have your "d.s." customers (d.s. is an acronym which i shouldn't use cos without the customer, there wouldn't be a job etc.) who have their isles as narrow as possible and don't make it easy to deliver by simply opening the rear bay and rolling the whole pallet in, but instead insist of having all broken down and having it brought thru the front (???).

And yes, i have done foodservice and yes the money was pretty good (and i even had a little fun but don't tell anyone). And there's a reason why i don't do foodservice anymore......

 

I'll be sure to keep these in mind. Seems to be more of a technical challenge than anything. My main reasoning for wanting to take on the food service work was for the chance to move to a larger city. At the same time though, my current workplace is making some compromises. $70 per load unloaded at the cheese plant doesn't sound too bad any more. Four of those a night and I'm sitting pretty when I don't have my regular route to head out to.

 

Sysco Grand Rapids, Michigan had these drop decks there all phased out by now. This was back in the early 2000s.
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