The Food Service Rant thread

Sitting here right now at the food terminal. I got done with my day at 11:15am got back to the yard was ready to go home and boom I saw I had a back haul I read the schedule wrong and got to the terminal at 11:48am. It's now 14:15 pm and I've been in the dock maybe 10-15 minutes and still no fork lift or any thing at least I'm in the dock. I'll have 4 hours into this back haul.

 

I hear you on that one fun stuff always happens on Sunday.

 

I'm jealous of everyone's trucks on here..

I work for Coke Consolidated, and my Truck is a 99 international with a Super 10 transmission.. Upshifting is fine but downshifting is pretty much a guessing game..

Hopefully our new company buys us new trucks within the next year..

But this is my first week out on my own as a bulk driver and so far so good..

If Harris Teeter would cease to exist that would be excellent.. Most annoying place to check in..

 

Wal-Mart and well any of the big boxes were all annoying, however Wal-Mart took the cake. We have a local super market here called Daves and sometimes it depends on the receiver, but ugh the grocery stores pushed my buttons.

 

Walmart, Target, Sam's..

I love those stores, all I have to do is give them my pallets ticket and drop em.. No counting or anything..

Harris Teeter on the other hand...Gotta count and scan every pallet, gotta ask them to close/open the gate.. just really an annoying place to go to

 

Wal-Mart was a pain in our rectum at the beer company absolute the worst set of stops we did bar none. They were a pain in everyone's behind though not just us. Management even knew it and admitted to it.

 

I hate backhauls, I know it's easy money but it's the only time I had to use my 16 hr rule so far (and that was only doing 3 backhauls that day and nothing else)

Day goes by much faster lumping food

 

I was all set to go home and nope! Spent 4 hours baking in my truck the same way a cake bakes in the oven waiting to be called into a dock. Sitting in line with all the OTR trucks most owner operators, but not the Kenworth Peter Built driving kind of owner operators the very old Freightliner/16 year old Volvo driving owner operators that haul brokered refrigerated loads. The guy who got loaded before me was in I would I have to guess a 2000 Volvo VN780 it looked like an okay truck, he was probably Phillipeno or something along those lines from Schaumberg, IL which is outside Chicago and in the Chicagoland area, I've been there once at pizza at some place called Dominics, but I think Dominics is in Villa Park.

I think what takes them so long is there literally putting orders together on the spot. The truck backs into the dock and the dock workers are pulling product and shrink wrapping pallets I see it all the time and I think that's why it takes them a very long while to get trucks loaded.

 

I used to pick up a backhaul sorta on my way in that added about 45 minutes to my day and was good for an extra $50. The only time I was there more than ten minutes was if there was another truck in front of me, and that was rare. I didn't even back in a dock. Parked off on the side of the street, they brought 2-3 knee high pallets out and set them on the tail, I put up a couple load locks and left.

Easy money, defined.

 

Normally I don't mind the freezer gets us in pretty quick, but not yesterday.