The Food Service Rant thread

Just so you know they screwed up the routes they forgot to put in roll off pay. I also was told that all the routes were posted at the 1st year pay of 85%. Not sure if the second is true that's just what I heard. If that is true pay is about the same and possibly more. Just a FYI lone cowboy

 

Its discouraging to hear about the new routes at MBM. I have an interview with them in a couple weeks but now I'm having second thoughts. Maybe it was just a little mistake and incomes will remain basically unchanged. There are lots of jobs here in Denver but not many that pay as well as MBM.

Hey LoneCowboy, sorry to hear you are leaving. Where are you planning to go?

 

Hey Steven they still pay the same

 

Thanks noodles & co, your pad thai has given me the ability to weld steel with my blowtorch ### good God

I can usually handle my liquor but gee this is ridiculous

 

So, in what sense have the routes been cut at MBM? The stop/piece/mile pay is the same, and presumably they still have the same amount of product to deliver, unless they lost an account or something. Either there is less total work or they plan on hiring a lot more drivers.

Oh well. I'm looking into delivering fuel with a company called Solar Transport. I'm a trainer at an OTR company and maybe I'll keep doing that. It's nice spending most of the day reading in the passenger seat, but students can be incredibly frustrating. Maybe I'll become an astronaut or a park ranger or an assassin. What are you guys thinking about?

 

I own a small side business that I run with my friend if that can be a real business one day and I think it can you won't see me delivering groceries any more, that's for sure.

 

average route pay is 1341. I did the math added them all up and divided by the number of routes and that's what they came to. That's 69,732 per year. That's around 70k per year average. That's the MBM new route pay and yes they did drop because of the team routes that went to other centers however it was not that great of a drop 4k per year. That's around 70 dollars a week. That was only because of the team routes being dropped most solo routes still pay the same. They are also better organized. I didn't see 1 20 hr layover like they used to have. All in All I like these bids more mainly because I don't run teams. I run solo and with so many solo routes now I have a lot to choose from.

 

I am going to put MBM (Aurora) in a nutshell. Especially for people that have never worked there and are looking for a place to work. Its not perfect. No jobs are. This job however is pretty close. It is the 1 job I have had the longest in my entire life. It is a good enough job that when my son turns 21 I will have him put in a application to work there. Do they have bad points, Yes, but they also have good points as well. The pay is very good. The work is very easy, especially for foodservice. The home time is excellent. The 401k is matched 2 to 1. You name another company that matches 2 to 1. You wont find one. The benefits are average. The equipment is new. However it is not well taken care of not because of Ryder or MBM but because of drivers. They just leave stuff for the next driver to fix or don't even let anyone know its broken. As anyone that has driven a truck for any length of time can tell you. Trucks break down. Its a fact of life. I live a long ways from Denver but I only have to drive to work twice a week. Not 5 times. I take home around 2400 dollars a pay check (that's bi weekly). I live comfortably on that amount of money. Like almost every trucking company drivers are not treated with the respect you would assume they would give considering we are what "drives" the company. If you just do your job and don't dwell on whats wrong but dwell on whats right then this is a fantastic company to work for. As lonecowboy can attest when I rant to him in the yard before leaving on a route I am guilty of the same thing. Dwelling on whats wrong. I have my moments. I just don't see any foodservice or similar job comparing with MBM. Nothing pays as well for as little work as we do at MBM. You want to do a job that pays 70k a year with great home time that you can do till you retire. Then MBM is a great place to work. I have 6 more years until I hang up the keys. For me I will stay here at MBM until then. Unless they fire me