The Food Service Rant thread

Depends on the outfit most guys though end up driving the same truck everyday. Where I work I drive the same truck everyday nobody else drives it, but me. That's not to say they aren't allowed to drive it if I'm on vacation, but where I work we have a board and it has all the tractor numbers on it and all of our names are written next to the tractor were assigned to.

If your running like a sleeper cab truck for an LTL company that truck is probably going to be your baby. I don't see to many LTL sleeper trucks doing city work. Usually the LTL sleeper trucks are team trucks.

Go by any hotel though that's near an LTL terminal and you'll see LTL trucks parked in the hotel parking lot those are all trucks those drivers are assigned to and run on a normal basis.

There are companies food companies like MBM that slip seat everyone or the beer company I worked for that was all musical trucks and trailers, but where I work now at GFS we don't slip seat. During the normal M-F work week I'm the only one who drives my truck.

Now you might share a truck with a line haul driver and I've done that too, but that's also a regular deal you drive it during the day and the other guy drives it at night and vice versa it's not that bad though. The guy I shared with was great truck was always clean full of fuel we both kept it clean was a real good arrangement.

 

I see... slip seat can be good but it can be bad... depending on who you are sharing the truck with.... or how many share the same truck...
Do you find energy and time to do all that you need and want during your time off?
I don't know if you have a home and/or someone to take care of things for you while you are at work and this is not my business but I wonder how one would be able to take care of their personal life, home and all doing this job...

 

I live at home with my parents, now that's going to change probably in the next year. It's not that I don't make enough money to move out I certainly do and could that's not an issue. My workday is typically 10-12 hours long usually 10-11 an 8 hour day feels like I'm working half a day.

When my folks go on vacation I run the house hold like anyone else, get the mail take out the garbage on garbage day, cook diner go to the store, go on the internet do the laundry and run the dishwasher, cut the grass. What's funny is there are guys at my yard who go to work run a big route and then go home and do chores around there house run over to there mother in laws and fix what ever over there and do what ever they have to do with there kids or grand kids oh yeah we have guys unloading everyday who are far enough along where they have grand kids there's at least three guys at my yard who have grand kids and they run routes everyday. So it's defiantly possible.

 

That's good to know... I want to make sure that if I decide to do this kind of job, LTL I will have enough time and energy to run my errands, do my food shopping, cook, take care of my place, do stuff at home and still have enough time to sleep and rest well before going back to work...
Living in the truck for all these years... I got used to being "at home" the whole time...

 

Yeah I guess you could say you don't like your view you could just take 15-20 minutes drive somewhere else and you have a new front yard and outside window view.

 

Nothing beats climbing into another driver's truck and the first thing you notice is the pile of chicken bones and pizza crust on the floor.

 

Id kill a #####. We "had" 1 truck that the driver would leave food in, he got critters. I refused to drive it, i would take the shop beater before his, luckily it had catastrophic turbo failure. Hes getting a new truck..... better not be no critters...

 

I had that happen no joke. At the beer company the bulk trucks were pretty much any tractor you could get your hands on. Under the passenger seat of the one bulk truck I drove that Tuesday there was a whole wing boat full of bones and chicken wing fat.

 

That driver would win the neat freak of the day award at my company. I got laughed at today for washing my windows when I got back.