The Food Service Rant thread

Is your US Foods. All re-branded? Ours here in Cleveland is. I know for a while US Foods was pretty slow about re-branding equipment lots of Alliant trailers running around LOL!

 

We had some old lady Baltimore trailers that you could still see the logos had been pulled off but they were all put out to pasture and all of our stuff is us. Foods now. All the old timers had to turn in all there kraft and Alliant stuff not long ago.

 

GFS got rid of there old logo at then end of 2014, personally the new logo I don't really like, but what ever however it's going to be a long long hot minute before the old logo goes away because there not re-branding anymore tractors and they are not re-branding any trailers at all so 12-15 years the old logo will still be around. The old logo I think lasted from 1990-2014. So they got a good solid 24 years out of it. Personally they should have kept it, but I guess they thought it was getting to dated and they needed to change.

 

It was dry, gray today and very very humid. The sun wasn't really out, but it was sure humid and I was sweating profusely all day today.

Everywhere I went because of the hot hot heat and humidity it smelled like rotting garbage. No joke it fact all day long the smell of rotting garbage filled the air. I thought it was just me, but no it turns out when I was at my second last stop one of the bar maidens came out back and went "Oh god the garbage smells awful out here." I said to her "Thank you for saying that because I was beginning to think it was just me who was smelling that smell." Funny thing is there dumpster was emptied by Republic Waste just before I got there and it was just all the juice at the bottom of the dumpster lingering. Yeah it was gross everywhere today just smelled like rotting garbage.

 

It was pretty miserable in MD today too, 96-98 degrees and humidity is off the charts. I was seriously jealous of you guys dragging around the refrigerated trailers. 1550+ cases to Sysco in Jessup MD today, and I'm quite positive it was 110 or better in the trailer. Didn't help matters much that my rear landing gear got stuck down (air over hydraulic setup, and someone didn't see fit to grease the legs in, oh forever). Hung around trying to get them to retract for the better part of an hour before having a light bulb moment and asking their mechanics if I could borrow a grease gun for a minute. Wouldn't you know, the leg that was totally dry also had a broken grease fitting on it. Not the norm for FL maintenance, usually they are well ahead of the curve at least at my home yard.

Oh well, waiting in my hotel room for my backhaul to load the trailer..will pick it up after my 10hr. Just down the road from GFS in Aberdeen, actually.

 

I'm shipping out on Sunday I'll see you next week.

 

Sysco probably buys a lot from Frito as well, do you have to unload your own truck with a two wheeler, I know Frito floor loads and uses like moving van trailers because the product is really mostly air and so they just need space for cube.

 

Bins-newtrailer by JPenn posted Jul 28, 2016 at 9:28 PM

When delivering to vend stops (our in-house term for non-FL deliveries) we usually wind up building pallets. It'd be faster to offload with a 2-wheeler, that's what we do when delivering to the smaller route sales guys. Palletizing an entire trailer floor-loaded is an awful lot of fingerprinting product. With the 2 wheeler we take product off a stack at a time, 10-18 cases usually.

My Saturday/Sunday run this weekend is nearly 2600 cases over 4 stops, plus salsa and other smaller assorted goodies, going to route sales in upstate NY. Hope it's cooler!!

 

So I'm thinking of writing a book .

There's a book called OVERSIZED it's about heavy haul trucking out west in Nevada and California.

Well I'm thinking of making a coffee table book called OFFLOAD and make it a pictorial history of food service trucking in America. It wouldn't be a New York Times Best Seller, but I bet there would be a few (very limited in numbers) group of people who would look at it.

Actually GFS has some cool pictures from back in the day way back in the day you have to see how they used to load trucks back in the late 50's and early 60's, back when restaurant food service trucking was in it's infancy.

 

Where do I pre order? Lol