Why I Avoid Grocery Warehouses

Hourly guys tried to extort a lumper fee from me & my partner. We unloaded the truck ourselves even though it was their job. We had to turn & burn.

 

To this day I will not step foot into a Albertsons grocery store.
Pulled a refer for a number of years, switched to a tanker in 2003 and haven't looked back.

 

I will admit I made good money running ice pack chicken into Rogers poultry inLA , getting a load of produce back to Florida or Atlanta if was to a market instead of a grocery distribution.
But those chicken hauler days are gone.

 

Albertsons treated drivers worse than dogs. They could care less about your schedule or your time.

 

For me it's about both, great money and being treated decently. I could go back to pulling produce and dealing with produce sheds and grocery warehouses and produce markets where the money is good but in treated like some ex con drug addict. Or i can continue pulling this flat bed where I'm making even better money and treated like a normal person.

Yesterday this customer brought me breakfast cause i had to stage overnight on the lot. Last night the crew stuck around after dark and we had a couple beers while talking shop. This morning the same crew brought me coffee at 6 am while we waited for the sun to come up to start unloading. Just now at the other end one guy was sent out to get lunch for everyone and the foreman made sure he got my order and refused to accept any money for it.