Truck Driving for Pepsi

In regard to food service deliveries like US Foods, Reinhart, etc...

For heavens sake, how long does it take the average guy to be able to navigate the myriad of items packed into the trailer so you can find it? How long does it take to start remembering what a given item number's package size might be so as to find it sooner? What am I talking about, you ask? Let me explain.

At a truck stop or two along the way I've seen some food service drivers (US Foods or such) delivering. I looked into his trailer and saw where he had stacked boxes upon boxes around boxes and stacked a few piles of boxes here and some there... You get the idea. Holy crap, talk about being buried. How do you guys learn to keep the items straight? Do new guys get lost in there?! Are a lot of errors made? Or, is it loaded onto the trailer by stop? You know, the first stop loaded at the rear of the trailer and the last stop loaded at the front...

 

Loads are picked and tagged by stop. First stop on tail.

 

Thanks Double r, i was hoping there was a level or organization in regard to how the merchandise was loaded.

Be safe out there!

 

"pepsi you got the real thing!" I live in the mid-west and i don't think we have a pepsi bottler..

 

actually depending on where u live at in oh there is possibily at pepsi plant couple hours away with an independant warehouse not far pepsi has a strong pressance in oh before the intergration to become pepsi beverages it was pepsi americas in oh i know twinburg has a pretty big plant

 

ah..u guys prolly have a little different set up then our plant
start here 6:30am..leave by 7:00 am..usually 12-17 stops 450-650 cases..finising last stop around 2pm-3pm

with drive time back to plant and check in leave around 4pm..sometimes sooner..sometimes later

with pepsi it comes down to one thing..do u like doing hard work for ur $$? if ur beat up or weak minded move on really..don't even bother applying..if u can handle hard work then go for it..and yes..ur first few months are going to kick ur ##### regardless..but you'll get used to it and learn all the little tricks for making ur day go faster and easier..and the $$ are good with prolly a pension at ur location

 

I had an interview at PBC and they asked those "interview questions".

They are looking for someone experienced with bay truck, but I have other experience (otr, reefer, ltl, load/unload, lumping) seems like it would be good enough. kinda weird to be told basically that you are on stand-by until they find someone better, you may still have a shot if we don't find someone better. My opinion is let me at it I've been a hard laborer all my life and I still fit the image of a 'pepsi guy'. Not to be prideful, but I'm the man for the job, sir. But oh yeah the third-party thing.. it must be hard sometimes to hire a good worker nowadays with corporate structure getting in the way. Good luck to you and to me. But you should still hire me

 

I have sent in a application for a position with Pepsico. Hopefully ill be hearing somehtring soon. Close to home.Would be nice..