The Food Service Rant thread

That's exactly how my food service gig was. Go out for 30-36 hrs 2 times a wk and call it good. We ran big sleeper cascadia's with 48s. At mclane your deff bringing home more than I was. I had 10 stops on a long island run (all wendy's) and my other run was 12 stops in Baltimore all checkers. I averaged 800-1200 cases a truck

 

Wow. I thought you meant it was a guaranteed minimum, like if there isn't enough work.
Our extra board drivers are guaranteed $1800 every two weeks, if they don't work enough to make that much. It doesn't happen often.

 

Today I had my supposed to be usually semi annual evaluation. Guess what I passed? Actually did better then I thought and better then I knew. My boss looked at my Xata score on the board before I left the yard with the assistant boss who was going to evaluate me and said "Well you're at a 99.0 out of 100 right now and lets see you're idle time is 0.0 so you can't do much better then that. " Anyhow my self and the assistant boss went out on the road and ran my route together. Then when we got back to the yard I did my post trip inspection did the in cab out of cab, tractor and trailer inspection. We have a lot of things to inspect and I ended up doing pretty good. They also said I was a good shifter which ha-a year ago that wasn't true, but I've come a long way have some more ways to go, got dinged for a couple of things, but that was partially because they can't do an evaluation on you and find nothing wrong, that's not much of an evaluation so I get it. Over all though I'll take it!

They also look at how you work, do you do the ramp right, do you do you're freezer right, you don't jump off the side of the trailer climbing out of the freezer compartment, you don't want to jump out of the side of the trailer that's a big no no.

The pre-trip and post trip that's all about making sure you are familiar with the equipment and how it works and what the major components are.

They even have us do a small inspection on the refer unit checking to make sure the temperature is set correctly so on and so fourth.

Yesterday I was talking to a truck load driver at a back haul and he had been trucking for 40 years and was talking about all the bad drivers and bad truck driving schools and so on and so fourth. I'm a truck driving school graduate, I put my self through all of this, but it's more of an attitude thing then anything else. You have to want to do good, it doesn't mean the good part will come over night it takes work, but you have to want to do good and take it seriously and you need a broad view of the entire industry. Know how the big OTR trucking companies work in the business sense who they are what they haul/what they do. Know you're industry I'm in a niche part of trucking, I drive for a private fleet that delivers food. However like let me give you an example when I was doing my pre/post trip evaluation I was inspecting the fifth wheel I said to the boss "We have fixed position fifth wheels here, but other big OTR freight companies have sliding fifth wheels for weight distribution." You know I mean that sounds like pretty common knowledge, but there might be some people out there because the company they work for doesn't have that kind of stuff or what ever and they don't know about it, that's all. The bottom line is you need to have a big world view. Of course I was interested in all this stuff which is why I got into it.

You people ask me well what do you do for fun? The answer and I finally thought of it today is live life. That's what I do for fun. I took something I was interested in and made a career out of it, so far it's been a very good decision. I guess I'm weird like that, I don't set aside time to "have fun" I just go out and try to have fun at work and at home and what ever. I get a kick out of posting on this forum and read and learning and talking to all of you guys and exchanging ideas. I'd like to be a volume truck driver for GFS in time that would be cool transit would be alright too, you know go out on the road and see some new sights get to take like a little trip every week. You know staying in a hotel room one or two nights a week isn't a big deal to me, but that's neither here nor there.

The bottom line is you can be good and do good, at the end of the day it's only misery if you make it misery for the most part.

 

A moment of silence for Max&Ermas...

RIP free cookie Wednesday. .

 

An extremely generic restaurant chain from the Midwest. Pretty cookie cutter.

 

One of my first restaurant jobs I was a busboy at m&e for a few weeks in the early nineties.

The store on my route was a decent stop, no indication at all last Friday the end was nigh...

Anna, Elizabeth and Eddie, you guys were cool, good luck to ya....

 

They go under?