US Foods driver shortage?

Not an answer to your question on US Foods but a couple weeks ago I picked up a load from performance food group drove it to Illinois where I met the owner of 16 restaurants. He and his employees had five trucks to break down my load and deliver to all 16 restaurants.

Due to driver staffing the only way the guy was going to be able to keep his restaurants open was to deliver the food himself.

From that experience I believe the US Foods, Syscos, PFG’s are dying for drivers.

 

Google maps is already showing the DCs in Sioux Falls and Fairmont MN as permanently closed. Any drop yards they serviced would be closed too.

It’s crazy how things have swung down and back up in the past year and a half. The location I used to work out of had to lay off half their drivers last year. Now they’re losing entire markets because they don’t have enough drivers.

I’ve thought about going back because I miss the challenges and hard work...but this LTL linehaul money is impossible to walk away from at this point in my life.

 

A friend showed me a Facebook advertisement for SYGMA in Kansas City that said if you MOVED to Kansas City the hiring bonus was $20,000 but $10,000 if you did not need to move to work out of their Kansas City location.

 

Sysco in my area just dropped 35% of there accounts because of driver shortage.

 

Wow...

 

What ltl company do you work for, just curious

 

FedEx Freight.

 

One of US Food’s problems is that they require new drivers to commit to Saturdays for two years.