The Food Service Rant thread

Your beer truck auto was probably a real automatic transmission, not an automated manual. Big difference.

My biggest whine about the Detroit trans is that it takes s o l o n g to shift and get back on the gas. When it shifts into eleventh and twelfth gears at 1300 rpms, going uphill, you tend to go nowhere pretty quickly. And most every one I've driven can be pretty temperamental. Have to be really careful pulling out into traffic, because they all tend to hesitate and then they kinda get lost and can't figure out which gear to be in. I have sat literally all the way across the road, waiting for the truck to go.

The iShift is lightning quick in comparison, and at least tolerable, but gear selection still leaves a lot to be desired. Some of ours can be manually shifted, but if I'm going to go through that effort...

My usual ride is from the oldest batch of trucks that we have. I don't know when it will be replaced, but I hope it's not until the dual clutch iShift hits the US market. I'm pretty sure the stick and clutch pedal are a thing of the past in the Mclane world.

 

Yeah the beer trucks were full blown automatic transmissions no different then a car. Worked really good I was thinking why do people not like these? Yes though I've seen videos from the 1990s from Eaton on there now extremely antiquated and economically obsolete first generation "auto shift system" yeah an automated manual is a whole different thing. Your right though once companies go auto or semi automatic that's pretty much it they don't go back. The shifter and 3rd clutch pedal are now old technology and on the way out. I've said it before and I'll say it again within 10 years for the most part especially in big corporate fleets manual truck transmissions will be a thing of the past.

 

At the end of July I'll have been at this job for two years. Not a bad place to work, the work isn't all that hard and the people are decent. Typically work 50-55 hrs a week, on occasion I'll do 60 or more, but those instances are few and far between. One of the benefits of the job is that it pays overtime. Not the usual time and a half after forty hours but time and a quarter after forty-five hours. Has anyone ever heard of that before?

 

Where do you work?

 

A little place(12 straight trucks) called Shelton Farms Wholesale in Niles, Mi.

 

Oh Gotchya!

 

So yesterday I worked over the holiday, it wasn't to bad had a hospital route. Then today I worked as well got done at a fairly good time however I was having one of those days where it felt like I was dragging oh well.

 

Mondays are the worst since it's hard to get in bed early the night before. I work a split shift so I have 2 Mondays a week which makes it worse

 

I hate working Mondays. I would much rather work Saturday than give up my Sunday evening. That's when fun stuff with family and friends always seems to happen. Smokin' Sunday seems to happen at my house a lot, since I got my new kamado last year. Usually pork, but occasionally a brisket or chicken.

I have two Mondays as well, only they're Tuesday and Friday.