The Food Service Rant thread

Thank you all so much for your information. Choosing a job is very important and your insight has done a lot to relieve the anxiety of going in blind. Unless they tell me something I don't like at the interview I will give them a try. Its not like I won't be able to go back to OTR. Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

Oh, and some more questions:
1. Do you pick up a back haul on most trips? Have you ever come back across Wyoming empty? (I'm thinking of the wind).
2. Looking at the new trips, what appears to be the average number days off in a week?
3. What are the typical start times for these new routes? Are more of them work-through-the-night key drops than before?
4. Do you ever scale loads?
5. How much variation is there in the 'pieces'. Is it mostly boxes or is it bags of onions and bottles and stuff. I'm imagining 1100 boxes weighing about 35 lbs each. That's a lot to unload in a day. I've started exercising so it won't be a complete shock.
6. How much more difficult is the job in winter time? I would think the electric pallet jacks are easily impeded.
7. What states are you routed to most frequently? Seems like Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico and of course Colorado.

Thanks again guys.

 

We do backhauls on some routes not most about20%
We come across Wyoming empty a lot but empty we weigh 40000 so even though we are empty we are still heavy and even though we do come across WY empty we have never had a blow over
You will normally get 2 days off a week
We rarely ever do key drops 99% of our stores are live drops we don't work through the night
Rarely ever have to scale I have scaled twice in 4 years
Mostly boxes but we only have to take 1/3 of our customers product in the store at all
You will be amazed at how good the electric pallet Jacks do in snow it's much colder outside but you can warm up in the trailer
We run in the states you listed plus Nebraska north and south Dakota Idaho Montana Arizona Texas

 

I'm not MBM, but I do once in a blue moon get back hauls as well here in broadline. Why today I picked up 11 pallets of french bread to have put in my 28' trailer.

 

4,000lbs cubed out way before it weighed out that's for sure.

 

Best Friday I have had in a while clocked out at 2:30pm or sometime around there. Haven't been back to the yard on a Friday like that in 6 months ha-ha! My Friday route is slowing down it's a heavy big route in the summer, but it slows down in the fall and winter because the seasonal places either close or slow way way way down. Anyhow got to the yard this morning my regular truck was gone someone else took it (I don't know why anyone would want to take the truck that I drive considering it's a Cornbinder and most GFS drivers are against Cornbinders. So I don't know there was a 2015 Volvo and a 2011 Volvo sitting in the yard and everything else was on the road so I took the 2011 Volvo (As a rule I do not drive new trucks unless I have to and I have had to, but I do not go out of my way to drive the newer equipment.) The 2011 Volvo wasn't bad it's an ex GFS transit truck that got down graded to city use. It has maybe 300,000 something thousand miles on it, it ran good really. Although I could not get it to detach from the trailer. I tell you what there is nothing more frustrating after a long day then getting back to the yard and fighting with a fifth wheel that won't detach from the trailer, gosh is that frustrating. I couldn't get the truck to detach from the trailer and eventually just gave up and drove to the office in my car and said I can't unit XXXXXX to detach from the trailer, but I think it's due for PM anyhow so does it matter? Boss said nah it's fine just make sure it's still hooked on to that trailer. So on my way out the door I checked the lock jaw with my flash light and then went home ha-ha!

I've been home since just a little after 3:00pm it's been great!

 

some of the Volvos have a latch or someting you have to move i think.i had a prob once and someone showed me what to do.sorry cant remember tho exactly.