What is the most physically demanding local job?

Food service, hands down. Be it beverage or restaurant, you WILL fingerprint every single box in that trailer. Generally TWICE! Plus muscling that two wheeler around. Have fun!

 

Food service.

 

My opinion is food service delivery. Moving a lot of cases up and down ramps all day, multi stops. Or running a yard switcher position with a regular truck, I have done that and moved 30 trailers. Getting in and out, cranking landing gear, lowering, opening and shutting all those doors, pulling 5th wheels can make for a long day.

Local multi stop flatbed work is taxing too, lots of strapping and unstrapping. I do multi stop runs usually up to 600 miles, home daily but the most physical part of my job is airing up tires, maintenance issues. I do help turn skids for forklift drivers if they are loaded sideways but the floors are slick, so even 500-1000 lbs can be manipulated if you are relatively strong.

 

Everyone is going to say food service. They are wrong. I've done food service. pffffffffftttttttt, child's play and at least you are compensated for it. I've done 1500 case days with a few hundred miles driving, once you get good at food service, it's not that bad.

Try a trim shop. Windows, doors and trim. 16' long pieces of trim. Heavy as fudge on your shoulder. Windows doors? yeah, you pick those up by hand too. on your forearm and up you go. Never use a two wheelers. Which is ok, because there's rarely any concrete. These places are under construction. It's all dirt, mud, maybe some boards. Windows and doors (esp exterior doors) are HEAVY and awkward as hell. The trim has to be gently laid down or it breaks. Oh, none of this stuff can get wet either while you are transporting it, because then it won't stain or paint correctly. So you have to wrap it up (in the trailer) in plastic and then throw it on your shoulder and walk in the mud/snow/ice whatever to get it inside the house/building.

And all this for maybe $20/hour (usually less). Much much worse than food delivery.

 

picking up a 300-pound barmaid that can't stay on the stool and the rest is self-explanatory

 

12 oz curls at the house.

 

Food monkey....

 

I'm with cowboy on this one.. foodservice is tough but the heaviest boxes are under 60 lbs and there's heavier stiff out there.. I worked for a moving company, and trust me, moving Hardwood executive desks and "credenzas" and **** up and down stairs is way tougher.. at 21 years I was too old for that and got into food/beverage at that point.

 

When I did beer we hired a guy that ran a truck for a shingle distributor and he said wheeling kegs and cases where easy compared to running shingles my brother-in-law runs a dry wall truck and he is built like a brick outhouse and says it's no bueno so I would say construction suppliers would be up there