Walmart 60 footers

I'm glad you guys are still in business, Wonder Bread is gone now. IBC/Hostess nowadays just deals with Twinkies and cakes. Wonder Bread was bought out by Flowers Food/Tastykake and is delivered by them now. I thought about driving for Frito Lay, but could never find a postion that was available.

It's kind of funny how we both got the same link to double '48 trailers. Those pictures of Wonder Bread/Hostess trucks is all that's left now, stored in history.

 

I work for Frito Lay and we use 57 ft trailers all the time in fact my run tomorrow will be a 57ft. Sometimes when we run up to Rapid City we use a sleeper. Mostly we use daycabs and stay in motels.

 

Do you guys just deliver to depots? That's all we did at IBC. We would off load the baked goods and reload MT racks and stales. The baked goods would then be reloaded onto the bread truck delivery vans. A lot of our delivery drivers would go to the same places that Frito Lay went as well.

 

We have 3 kinds of "customers" effectively... DC's (ours), bins (our depots that the smaller route sales trucks run out of), and vend customers (everything else non-FL). For example, I just delivered to Reinhart Foodservice this morning, and am mitigating my boredom in a hotel. DC's are typically drop and hook. Bins are floor stacked and unloaded via a hand cart, or on to pallets and the product is placed in the appropriate route's compartment. Vend stops are typically floor loaded, unloaded and palletized by the driver however the customer wants it (or pre-palletized in the case of Walmart and Costco et al).

The doubles in NY at least, are all DC->DC shuttles, we don't actually handle any product, but there is a metric ton of dropping and hooking since the DC's aren't accessible to the doubles without splitting the sets.

 

Our doubles we weren't allowed off the thruway. They had dropp lots that you had to go to and seperate before exiting. I went up their a couple times to bring back trailers back to the bakery. You could always tell if a 48 was hitched together because the tandem wheels were always slid back. Our Drakes trailer were permanently fixed all the way back, just for double set up.

 

Those trailers are crazy.

 

we (Denver Frito Lay Plant) don't run doubles we run 57 ft e-vans we do everything that j-penn says just in one trailer instead of doubles. Vend work isn't very fun but its a necessary evil. I don't think there are many companies that pay as well as Frito Lay.

 

46,500 of or 105,000lbs.

Lol and that's a normal day. Our super B's are 63,000 or 140-150,000lbs.

 

One of the first trucks I ever drove had a 903turbo, man that truck(KW Brute)was a fast shifter,or maybe I was quicker back then,lol.