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@bubba84624es

Жыл бұрын

This is y I whont work local work harder for less money not worth it amd I still not home

@fromawindow9173

Жыл бұрын

Local ain't trucking. It's delivery with a trailer

@brianhoppenrath8379

Жыл бұрын

Like you not a trucker

@d_glow

Жыл бұрын

Local is more challenging than OTR, with local you’re working 8/12 hours a day while wanting to live a life with OTR you drive the 600+ miles a day and you know where you gonna lay your head at the end of your shift wake up and REDO the same thing

@Kenwood709

Жыл бұрын

Give and take. I chose short hauls and get home every other day. I'd go nuts in a day cab and I've already seen the country 100s of times over. Going to the next state over in a sleeper suits me fine.

I don't blame him at all. You do what's best for YOU, not for the billionaire company who's trying to work you like a slave.

@asmongoldsmouth9839

Жыл бұрын

100% accurate 👍

@alexescobar001

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@Mr.Beastforpresident

Жыл бұрын

FINALLY a person with some sense! Get paid or get someone else rich! $20 an isn’t shit nowadays! If you can’t live and save $10k a year you’re at a slave wage job and will retire BROKE

@RandomPerson-nd2ey

Жыл бұрын

100%.

@1992Xenomorph

Жыл бұрын

More opportunity for me and others who want to work and make money.

In high school my friend's dad was a cross country tucker. When he found out I was interested in being a trucker he showed me the cab of his truck. Then, he very seriously told me that being a trucker is a lonely man's job and if I wanted to have a family and watch my kids grow I should consider a different career.

@secredeath

Жыл бұрын

That's why I became a trucker I drive the flatbed right now

@drei9

Жыл бұрын

Some folks like to be alone.

@bonusbaby2271

Жыл бұрын

He didnt lie to you. Most people wont tell you the truth about shit.

@marcohvac8902

Жыл бұрын

​@@bonusbaby2271not to mention if you are single..do not buy a house and let it sit empty you are literally paying for nothing if your never home it's cheaper to get a room occasionally at a decent hotel if all you sleep in a house is 4 days a month or so ...your wasting money paying prop taxes and bills and mortgage

@Digger-Nick

Жыл бұрын

That only applies to being a cross country trucker, which not everyone is...

It takes a real man to admit defeat. Trucking isn't for everyone.

@rrlogisticsllc3781

Ай бұрын

It should not be for nobody. It’s not worth it at all

@iAmTakeNote

Ай бұрын

Don’t look like he quit trucking. He quit Sysco

@pjefsquad

11 күн бұрын

💯

@theparodychannel7842

9 күн бұрын

True. Sumtimes u just can't do it n it's ok to admit it

@ssj-rose4572

5 күн бұрын

It's not even truck driving sysco aint shit

"Not scared of hard work" equals out, to me at least, "If you want to be treated like dirt and have no hometime".

@mrmitchell4089

6 ай бұрын

Yes those days are over. It's a wrap!

@channelofstuff6662

12 күн бұрын

Only a fool works hard. The companies don't care about you.

@turkeyman631

9 күн бұрын

There is a nice balance. Obviously Cisco doesn’t have that balance.

@justinmillette8737

4 күн бұрын

Our parents taught us that hard work pays off. Now though your hard work pays off for someone else.

How can you be mad at someone who makes a decision about his life 😩🤦🏽‍♂️. Trucking can be brutal.

@thelotus8285

Жыл бұрын

Great statement. Thank you.

@mjpthetrucker9485

Жыл бұрын

Insecure people are addicted to passing judgment. 😂

@younglove3362

Жыл бұрын

Enslaved mentality simple minded yes men that wanna call you a whiner for making the wise decision to leave while they stay and run themselves into the ground.

@caipirinha_king1632

Жыл бұрын

Trucking in general is brutal. There are guys that love to be away from home while doing minimum labor. There are guys that will sacrifice and have to do the labor locally to be able to see their wife and kids daily. There is a sweet spot with local companies. Find a union job that has great benefits and high hourly wage. I earned roughly $100k per year, didn’t pay medical and dental which started on my first day, had 7 weeks vacation, over a week personal days, over a week sick days. It started out with the crappiest shifts. But with each year and better seniority, you wind up with decent shifts/routes, and 2-3 consecutive days off.

@easternrebel1061

Жыл бұрын

​@@younglove3362 Pretty much. I've always been fascinated by that in older generations, mostly boomers and some gen x. It's a situation where you're mad at me because I decided to try and keep so e dignity while you let your boss bend you over a d use you, only to discard you when you longer are of use to them. That never made any sense to me. They've no right to tell you what to do with your life, and if they like being abused and exploited for shit pay, while being treated like shit, that's their problem. It's like with parenting. Everyone wants to blame and bitch about the young generations , but if you don't like they way we turned out then that's the their own fault for failing to be good parents abd educate their kids. Same thing goes for the workforce. Young people like me are starting to realize as we grow older and mature that we've been sold on a lie. The American dream that we were told that we too could have if we just slaved away hard enough was a lie. Honesty, Hard work, and intelligence isn't rewarded, it is exploited. It's not my fault that boomers enjoy being a tool for corporate overlords that couldn't give a shit about them , but there's no reason for us (my generation) to accept those same disadvantageous terms. Boomers are mad because we understand that there's a better third option, abd that we aren't willing anymore to be their little worker drones. It's the sane kind of rage when a noble notices that the peasants have started to wisen up and organize to demand better treatment. In my book, abd according to history boomers have been the most insufferable and damaging generation, and they are starting to pat the price of their sins so to speak. No amount of sulking and bitterness will change that.

My heart goes out to these men. Truckers deserve better than what these companies are doing to them.

@playboy7_16_79

Жыл бұрын

As a trucker,I appreciate that.

@Astelch

Жыл бұрын

whats even more sad the truckers who clown on him tolerate the bs and therefore enabling/encouraging this behavior. They get spat on the face and they think just because they can tolerate it then it makes them a man. Nah thats just lack of self respect.

@tommysimmons5266

Жыл бұрын

Not doing anything worse than what local delivery service did a 100 years ago, 50 years ago and every day to deliver food and supplies for the public.

@Puggy42069

Жыл бұрын

They will never get better without a Union.

@suadkraja7682

11 ай бұрын

@@Puggy42069pros and cons to a union buddy

I worked delivering soft drinks. It was horrible. I had to deliver to litter mom and pop stores that had gravel driveways, no back doors with a dolly. Can you imagine the amount of strength it took to push 400 to 500 lbs on a surface that has a soft surface? Then hold open a glass door while pushing 400 to 500 lbs up a ramp into the store with super narrow aisles. On top of that there was no OT after 40 hrs. It went to commission after that. The commission was about $3.80 per hour. I last 3 weeks. I quit after my 2nd check arrived. I know I’m a driver but I’m not stupid. We should go union and have our pay governed the fair labor and standards act instead of the bullsh-t FMCSA.

@NotYourMamasChannel

5 ай бұрын

Wow My dad had a vending route for Vernors back in the 80s. He left the house at 6:30am and was back by 5:00, weekends off. He typically made between 450 to 600 a week (1300-1700 in today's dollars). It was a comfortable living, but then the plant shut down in '87 and he got laid off for good.

@ppharaoh5421

4 ай бұрын

Fucking sad man

@pcnetworx1

Ай бұрын

When I hear "I'd rather be dead than union" from drivers...

@eugenemccaul5652

9 күн бұрын

That must have been soda pressing

@stevenotero2627

7 күн бұрын

Yeah that no overtime after 40 hours rule / law is so bogus. It's criminal that it's allowed to even happen. Straight pay no overtime is bullshit. It's why companies push you to work 12, 13, 14, 15 hours without a care or concern. They profit you get used until they use you up

Years ago, I did produce delivery to restaurants, schools, grocery stores, and prisons. I was doing 30 stops a day on graveyard and early early morning shifts. It was the hardest and one of the crappiest jobs I have ever had. Now I am doing “local driving” in 7 states. I do as many miles as most drivers, am home almost every night, and never have to touch freight or wait on a dock.

@dancastillo7126

3 ай бұрын

What company? What do you haul?

@Donkiko-bz1lv

Ай бұрын

If you’re not home everyday you’ll have a Sancho in no time.

@RemingtonScarborough

Ай бұрын

Fr what company

I used to work this type of job. I quit after 3 months. The hardest part was some of the places we delivered to had very limited space to park the truck for unloading. Downtown Atlanta is an awful place for delivery drivers.

@supertruckertom

Жыл бұрын

Ran a liftgate route in downtown Atlanta for 6 years before I got enough seniority for a line haul schedule, LTL. Merchandise Mart then work my way up Peachtree to Lennox or Phipps. Lots of residential deliveries too. Running Team LTL. Atlanta to the West Coast and back. Easy peasy

@underdog7495

Жыл бұрын

@@supertruckertom I wished my old company had lift gates. We had ramps. I told everyone who is thinking about going with Performance Food Service to make sure you wear tennis shoes, not boots. Your knees will feel like they're about to fall off if you wear boots.

@mjpthetrucker9485

Жыл бұрын

Bet it's not worse than New Orleans 😂

@PantherCoupe

Жыл бұрын

I do LTL in Atlanta and the hardest part is the driving, the traffic is terrible and the drivers are too! Some of my stops aren’t really designed for a 53’ trailer to bump the dock. All in all I do like what I do because the backing challenges I face on the daily have made me a better driver.

@maseratirue8010

Жыл бұрын

It ain't no easy peezy fuck a lift gate

I don’t blame him at all, Sysco is one of the worse companies anyone can work for. I worked for that company many years ago, we used to do anywhere between 14 to 20 stops a day and more than 1200 cases. I worked for them for several years and it was brutal/ backbreaking work.

@thelotus8285

Жыл бұрын

If they're unionized, then they suck. It's already bad enough that you want to work to provide for your family but it gets worse when you pay your union to do nothing for you.

@asmongoldsmouth9839

Жыл бұрын

​@@thelotus8285 unions are a joke. They rob you of a chunk of your earnings to side with your company anyways. LoL

@truthseeker2321

Жыл бұрын

@@thelotus8285 My last union job sucked. We used to joke that the union represented the company more than the workers.

@childofodin

Жыл бұрын

They don't treat contracted trucks any better. I've dropped 3 different loads at Sysco all 3 times I arrived a hour and a half early all 3 times it took them 5-8 hours to unload me

@matt89108

Жыл бұрын

@@thelotus8285 Sysco drivers make over $100k per year plus company paid bennies. That's good!

I did agricultural, & construction from age 10 -23...I had wanted to learn to drive truck around age 14. I got laid off for the winter from a heavy const. Sewer/ paving job so I signed up for tt school. I had asked some tt driving aquantenses, but was told..."You don't want to drive truck ." Insinuating it was a man's job. I completed training, passed my tests, got my C.D.L. in 1982 @ 23. Went to work driving after that. You have to give yourself some time to get your skills up. Perseverence, planning your trips, & exacuting your manuvers by pre-planning...pay attention, safety first, back up slowly, & Don't overdrive conditions, stay in control...of your rig, & your self. Get your rest, don't drink, or do drugs...especially when driving. Don't engage in rd. rage. Stay calm...over reacting to the inevitable a-holes you have to deal with doesn't help anything. I study, & practice stoicism...stay zen out there.

@smokeclouds8

18 күн бұрын

A stoic mindset is priceless

I helped out Sysco a few times running some routes. That shit is hardcore. Those guys deserve the big bucks.

Food service delivery is no joke. Just because your home everyday dosent mean it's a good job. It's not for everyone and at least he found out quickly instead of being miserable for years.

@Mesena2773

Жыл бұрын

Local work is waaaayyyy more work. They'll definitely try to kill you...especially food service

@Stephen85

Жыл бұрын

I have worked in restaurants and stocking Sisco orders was one of the worst parts of the job.

@jimdandy8119

Жыл бұрын

"Home every day" i.e. leave at 5 am and don't get home till 7 pm. Do this 6, sometimes 7 days a week. Doesn't really count in my book. I work on a loading dock. The big company drivers never last. The local distributors have the same guys for years and the rotate.

@Alexandr1683

Жыл бұрын

I did this for few years never again sygma use two pay good but you work for every dollar really hard

@ixan2137

Жыл бұрын

That shit is like a box truck! Those fucker make you to do all the work. Driving and delivering like 10+ stop! fuck Too much work for very little reward.

“If you’re not scared of hard work” no one’s scared of hard work but the hard work needs to match the pay and of people are out here driving semis for 20$ a hour that’s a mess up out of the get go… then breaking down pallets and having stop only for 80-100k those people are INSANE

@lifeasithappens

Жыл бұрын

I agree 100% brother

@ProleDaddy

Жыл бұрын

Sysco is a whole nother universe. Nobody should have to endure that.

@klavier285

Жыл бұрын

It's not right how little many drivers get paid. Retail workers make that or near that and you don't take any of the risk and responsibility associated with a driving job.

@kosovo140

Жыл бұрын

@@klavier285 you get it bro, at the end of the day if we could for the time slept in the truck it comes out to the same pay as working In a wearhouse with out all of the liability! One mess up and bam 20 years in prison

@mauricelinton5867

Жыл бұрын

80-100k?? Sure if you are racking up the overtime. Can you do that as a driver? No way, maybe in the oilfield

I recently finished my 180 hours of truck driving school, which is why i found this video, but many years ago I worked for a SYSCO warehouse and i hated it , back in those days i had also worked for Publix, Winn Dixie and Food Lion, but SYSCO was bu far the worst, they had a system that charged employees for making mistakes like accidentally sending the wrong item, being short or selecting one too many and you would not find out until payday, so you might've expected a $500 dollar check to that week but instead got $300, they would simply show you a copy with a list of your mistakes out of 5-10 thousand items selected that week and you were supposed to just believe them, quit after a few months.

@Whatsthedealsquirter

8 күн бұрын

Id make that 200 cost them more than they ever imagined 😂

Thank you for shedding light on the subject 😎👍

Worked at Pepsi in Alaska for a year... backbreaking work especially at -30F .... they worked me so hard I never saw my children. Nope never again

@TrukNLife316

Жыл бұрын

Even freight companies too. I feel like working too cause I miss almost everyday of my wife and kids life and nothing is better than having time for the family.

@et9151

Жыл бұрын

F that

@MRTLEW01

Жыл бұрын

@@TrukNLife316 True i worked for Southeastern Freight way too much for me i slept all day one Saturday from Friday night my wife woked me up to eat dinner!!!!! that night i slept thru breakfast and lunch!!!

@jrsmac5081

Жыл бұрын

@hardwork3160 If you can take the work, because of God, I did food delivery for eight years, so I could see my family everyday. See my posting above. But, as you age, you might plan an exit to an easier job!

@babettethompson3820

Жыл бұрын

@@TrukNLife316 Trucking is good money, however if it were me and I could do it all over again I would pay off all my bills and find a local job. Children need both parents, and they grow up so fast.

Trucking is a brutal job and the abuse the drivers have to deal with dealing with DOT and dealing with customers I don’t blame him for quitting. I’ve been in trucking for 30 years and out of the 30 years I’ve only enjoyed the 1st 2 years. Good luck guys I wish you all the best but I’ll never step into another semi for the rest of my life.

@chimborazo328i

Жыл бұрын

It all depend who you work for and the kind of work you do it can be brutal if that what you choose because of maybe the crazy pay wich could be tempting ...most of this big food corp..are a good example of brutal but there are better choices out there, i'm speaking from my experience!!!!

@Sai-xc8ij

Жыл бұрын

@chimborazo 328i I'm currently a local Wal-Mart driver in Chicago. Walmart is seen to be one of the plushiest of jobs. Trucking is very mentally and emotionally taxing no matter what company you're with. Im 31 and have been doing it since i was 21. Im over it

@baymaster20

Жыл бұрын

God bless you

@mrmitchell4089

Жыл бұрын

@@Sai-xc8ij I fully understand. I did six years and after two I was ready to leave. Hauling dry bulk lead was my last trip and I left on my own terms. Just got my physical blood pressure normal on the first try for the first time ever. Keeping my cdl but no plans on driving. Back in an office with women everywhere. Another world. I'm 37...

@Sai-xc8ij

Жыл бұрын

@mrmitchell4089 Now thats a winner for sure.....u already know there aren't many good looking women in trucking lol. i swear I've been contemplating getting in an office myself lol.

I've been driving since 1993, and out of those years I've been local 28 years. I hired on with Dick Simon straight out of school, and I made it a whole 2 weeks with my trainer before surrendering. The closest I've been to OTR since then is a year long stint as a regional heavy haul driver with Wilson Logistics (out Mon -Fri, home weekends, WA/OR/ID). I realized living in the truck wasn't for me. I've been doing LTL P&D all these years, and it's where I fit in.

I quit driving trucks in 2018. It was the best decision I’ve ever made. I went back to school and got my plumbing license

@afridgetoofar1818

Ай бұрын

You went from delivering shit to unclogging it

@user-gx3yv6ng9i

Ай бұрын

@@afridgetoofar1818plumbers make great money trucking isn’t the only thing where you make money

@sdizzzzzy3509

24 күн бұрын

@@afridgetoofar1818😂😂😂😂

@Theultimategamer2057

22 күн бұрын

@@afridgetoofar1818omg i died

@thepaynebro2377

20 күн бұрын

@@afridgetoofar1818HAHAHAHA

I can tell you from experience that the guy who says he’s making 16 stops 50k to 60k is making the company between 1-4million dollars just himself alone. So whatever he’s getting paid is just disgusting.

@yoshikay8787

5 ай бұрын

While daily taking out prolly $100,000 worth of freight per day!!!

@ohwow9257

4 ай бұрын

Exactly 🎉

@fuckjewtube69

4 ай бұрын

Youre delusional. He doesnt make them anywhere near that, thats just the gross cost of the product fool. They make a small percentage of that.

@00vTv00

Ай бұрын

60k = less than 47k after taxes, assuming you don't eat ands pay any bills, 47k is poverty for truckers.

@michaelharris-smith7761

Ай бұрын

But we fail to realize all the other areas that are also a part of that load. The maintenance personnel who work on and service the trailers to keep them operational. Sysco has some of the newest and best equipment. The warehouse personnel who select and build the pallets, the loader, the sales team, marketing etc…. So yes he may make true company 1 to 1.5 million but that pie gets sliced a lot of ways to pay everyone. Plus. In my first year as a rookie driver I made more than that. I never worked over 65 hours a week and would sometimes volunteer to work Saturdays because I had the hours and still got my reset for money. I’d start at 5 and be home by 1:30 on a Saturday and it was all overtime and once again. I volunteered. I pull up at a stop. I’m in and out in 20 minutes. Pepsi guy is there for houses building displays and stocking shelves. Nope. Not at Sysco. Get in. Get out!!!! Make money. And I was 38 when I started.

I don’t blame him, that’s a back breaking job, I’d quit too.

@casteel765

Жыл бұрын

And it doesn't pay much

@TruckDriver_Em215

Жыл бұрын

@@casteel765 for me it’s the long haul, I’m 40 yrs old, I’m not busting my hump to make a living, USPS is sweet gig, union job, pension, with company match at 5%. I’m 2.5 yrs in, after working Coca Cola & Pepsi, I’m not running & gunning like that anymore.

@TruckDriver_Em215

Жыл бұрын

@T Biz I’m sure it’s easy, once u get a system down, but food service whooped my ass when i did it lol.

@demikpre

Жыл бұрын

new hire, you already know he got the bs route on top

@El_LeChErO91

Жыл бұрын

Crybabies

I quit after 3 months working for Coke Cola. 17 stops and building displays by myself. Bouncing me around covering other drivers route not knowing where these places were located. I'm talking about 25 years ago GPS was shitty. Worst thing is the way they use to load your truck it was difficult to do a pre-route inventory inspection. The skids were so tightly wrapped that it was hard to count and if you were short a case or two they charged the driver full price for the error when it was loaded. I left and landed a job at an oil company pulling tankers. Best decision ever.

@DecrepitBiden

6 күн бұрын

May I ask what company you work for & what is the pay per hour? Thinking of applying for a petroleum hauling job.

@snap__shot

4 күн бұрын

​@@DecrepitBiden I used to haul oil tankers local and I've since gone back to over the road flatbed. Tankers are way too top heavy and hard to control for my tastes. Not to mention liquid surge is hard to control. I'll take strapping and tarping over that any day.

I'm doing a road test for XPO soon and I've been working there as a forklift driver a little over a month now and all our drivers that work line haul at night make 115-120k a year but you gotta haul doubles and have tank and hazmat. They are in need of about 400 drivers right now. Might wanna check it out. Home daily too. 14hrs shifts though.

I did foodservice for 6 months to get some experience. Made 56k for us foods. Then went into Ltl making 103k on a bid run no touch. Now make 126k a year doing local fuel hauling. You don’t have to work hard to make money here locally. Don’t let people fool you.

@guitarandotherthings6090

Жыл бұрын

What Ltl?

@gershonwilliams8769

Жыл бұрын

Less than truckload I’m currently working at Coca Cola as a truck driver I plan to go LTL after 2 years

@MondoChow777

Жыл бұрын

​​@Yujiro hanma You gave to find that company willing to take a chance on you, other than that you need a minimum 2 years OTR with no fuel hauling experience. OTR hazmat, tanker, doubles and triples is a plus to skip up the pay scale. Hell you can have 2 years dry van but carried liquid containers and you'll be set.

@ezeb4

Жыл бұрын

Fuel hauling is where it's at

@TheFunnycar123

Жыл бұрын

@@gershonwilliams8769 I wouldn’t even consider it knowing what I know now. Market is failing. Companies are getting worse. I left bc Ltl market is working less and 40 hrs a week. Fuel and food doesn’t slow down.

I Felt the exact same way when I went to work for FedEx! Unbelievable the amount of packages they stack on you. Also, they require you to be able to carry up to 150lbs, which was fine, till you needed to deliver a 150 lb, mattresses up 3 flights of stairs at an apartment complex. Hell no!!

@baymaster20

Жыл бұрын

Good for you fuck fedex

@davidharrow9025

Жыл бұрын

Yikes. Can you even refuse to do the delivery?

@mountainmanlife

Жыл бұрын

@@davidharrow9025 no not really unfortunately

@mountainmanlife

Жыл бұрын

@@davidharrow9025 also I worked for a contractor, maybe it’s different in-house. Good benefits and pay though I will say.

@davidharrow9025

Жыл бұрын

@@mountainmanlife I'm just wondering what you even do in that situation if you cant physically move the fking thing up the stairs. Can you call for help from someone else at the depot or are you on your own. Sounds like you're basically sht out of luck and have to figure it out on your own. I thought of applying to FedEx or ups before but wanted to start lifting weights and eating more before changing jobs. I'm too skinny for that job I think

I’ve done both OTR and local/regional driving and honestly for me I would say OTR is easier physically than local but it’s harder mentally and local is more physical but it still does mess with your mind due to city traffic, finding parking, trying to fit a 48ft trailer in a small parking lot. Having to adjust your tandem’s accordingly to the situation u may find yourself in. It’s really a give and take on which someone may chose. Pros and cons for both 🤷🏾‍♂️

Don't blame him at all. I did four weeks as a warehouse picker for Gordon Food Service and during that time, they paired all of the trainees with a local driver for a shift to have an understanding of how our part of the job affects theirs which is a huge credit to Gordon, it definitely did. We were told not to help and just watch because a trainee hurt themself going down the ramp a while back and went on comp for it. On the first stop the driver said I looked bored and asked if I wanted to help. I said absolutely. By the end of the day, I was absolutely spent. I'll stick to long haul. Have a friend who wants me to go local so we can hang more. Sorry bro. Not me.

Watching this video makes me realize how lucky I am to have my job. I’m 100% no-touch freight, 100% drop and hook, hourly pay and home every night!! Seeing videos like these help me see how some drivers are over worked and underpaid!! Thanks for shedding light on this!!!

@jeferssonmontoya2177

Жыл бұрын

Where u work?

@whatsakingtoagod5583

Жыл бұрын

@@jeferssonmontoya2177 Target out of Indianapolis. We’re the only Distribution Center in the U.S. that has a fleet. Other DC’s use outside companies.

@Ebonedrake84

Жыл бұрын

We’re u work

@Ebonedrake84

Жыл бұрын

I work for USA truck

@marcusraynal

Жыл бұрын

Plenty of other DCs have their own fleets. Walmart and Publix are some. Harris Teeter too.

I worked at Sysco for a year and some, I left Sysco with lifetime injuries. I pushed 6-1k cases a day, up and down a ramp, up and down stairs, dealing with mixed pallets, tipped over pallets, no support, needy azz clients, the list goes on. The company was not easy to work for especially dealing with power hungry or power starved managers and supervisors. Would I do it again? HELLS NO! It’s good money but you’re going to earn every dollar and then learn you weren’t being paid enough. We were paid 1 dollar more than the warehouse workers and did 3x the work. I can guarantee anyone joking about this couldn’t do it. 💯

@arielstrother1

Жыл бұрын

I was a order Selector at US Foods for about a year until covid hit I thought about doing food service but the management sucks.

@jonf2009

Жыл бұрын

100% most food service management hate the driver fleet, project all the problems onto them, and generally think they have an easier job than the order selectors. I told a senior vp at a former employer to his face I touch more cases than the average order selector and have to walk farther with it while downstacking every pallet I touched on top of driving it around, the sheer lack of comprehension about anything I said was eye opening. The management at these companies all rose up through the warehouse side and none of them have a clue about the final delivery end.

@MrMakaJames

Жыл бұрын

I did forklift and building maintenance for Sysco. Started when I was 19. You couldn’t ask me to do any warehouse job for them US Foods etc and I’d do that before being a driver. Food distribution is all labor with at times poor direct management and high turnovers. Old men who worked there for 20+ years all gave me advice on how not to kill my body and to get out the industry and continue school for my trade or something else.

@baymaster20

Жыл бұрын

Fuck

They say home everyday after a 16 hour shift unloading 15,000lbs of food a day. And back at at again at 3-4 in the morning. Barely any time with the family cause your either showering, eating or sleeping.

I got a local job right out of truck driving school in 2002. It was brutal I did it for about 12 years. Now I’m driving OTR after a hiatus. OTR is easier but the lifestyle is harder. The solitude and the loneliness can make you crazy. Sometimes I see guys at truck stop who have given up they just drive there trucks make deliveries and very little else. Some rarely shower or take care of personal hygiene. Many guys are getting scammed on dating sites and taking care of entire villages in third world countries. Divorce rates are high it can be rough. The money can be great, but it’s feast or famine. And it’s always been that way.

At least he had the courtesy of giving 2 weeks. Most companies fire you without notice! 🤨

@thelotus8285

Жыл бұрын

For reals! He did the right thing. It's better to admit defeat than to be slaughtered like an animal.

@maseratirue8010

Жыл бұрын

No most drivers quit without giving notice because they no that job sucks 💯

@Raphael6969

Жыл бұрын

@@maseratirue8010 That's the difference between a Professional Truck Driver and a wanna be 🤨

@maseratirue8010

Жыл бұрын

@@Raphael6969 Yea I hear you Ralph but some companies play with your money when put you two weeks in

@Raphael6969

Жыл бұрын

@@maseratirue8010 just because someone else chooses to be an a**hol doesn't mean I have to be the same. 🤨

I started on the freight docks here in Dallas when I was 16 busting and loading freight, lots and lots of hand freight. When I turned 21 I got my CDL & they put me in the city doing P&D (pick up/delivery) I've thrown thousands of tires off a 53 ft trl for years at tire warehouses. I've down stacked probably millions of boxes at the end of a trailer curbside and did inside deliveries. Yes, even those huge sky scrapers in downtown all the way to the top floor and everything in between. When I turned 32 I went over the road and still am at 53. Two totally different worlds for sure. Both are ass kicking in their own way but I will never forget the hard labor I put in on the docks and P&D. I still hold the door open for ladies the elderly & that hard working dude with a hand truck full of freight. RESPECT to ya'll killing out there for your families and the ungrateful public for what ya'll do. SALUTE!!

@strayCATchillspot

Жыл бұрын

🎁💗🎁💗🎁👑💎👑💎👑💎☝BRAVO.. YOUR A KING AND A CHAMPION..STAY BLESSED💎👌🐭

I used to work for MBM years ago. It was brutal. I lost about 40 pounds my first 2 weeks. I'm old now and would never want to go back into the food delivery industry. I've been in the automotive production side for the past 10 years. It's not the best but it's easy and it's paid decently especially here in Alabama where the wages and cost of living are lower. When I'm local, I'm home every day but the to work a lot of hours. When I'm dedicated regional, even though i spend the night at the shipper/supplier, I feel like i have more free time. It's a give and take. If you feel like you need to be home every night, you're probably going to work a lot of hours to make the money. Although I'm sleeping in the truck every other night, I see home every day. Since times I have to think back on all those long work days to make me appreciate what I'm doing now.

I worked at syco 1 month shuttling doubles,problem was senority BS ! suppose to get 2 huals a night,senior drivers kept taking a run away. F that

@nightfighter7452

27 күн бұрын

Dawg you can't complain about seniority benefits after working there for one month😂

There is a reckoning coming for the trucking industry. Their abuse of drivers has been well known and well-documented. Currently at somewhere between 60 to 80,000 driver short and I don’t believe that this will change anytime soon. My company pays us around $30 an hour. It’s very physical work and they are super sensitive to safety issues as They should be but we can’t get anybody to come and work because you have to start at night and work at night for about three years before you can get to a dayshift job. We do have good people and pretty good management, but we can’t find good people. Their pay was low for a long time, and they have only recently shifted to a higher pay scale to match the market. I think there has to be a drastic shift to higher paying driving jobs nationwide for OTR drivers they are way under paid for the hassle of running the DOT gauntlet day after day. You really can’t make a decent living with the cost of everything around you going up continuously.

@nammoses7800

Жыл бұрын

I know many doubt this but it's true. These younger guys coming in the industry don't want to work.

@alianh101

Жыл бұрын

Sad part is the freight ain’t paying what it should

@shojo8708

Жыл бұрын

I make about 31 an hour doing Instacart. There are much easier ways to make money

@MAXTORRACER

Жыл бұрын

"Their pay was low for a long time, and they have only recently shifted to a higher pay scale to match the market." That means your company has gone from below average to average. If they have a worker shortage, go above average and watch that shortage disappear in a month tops. Worker shortage always equals average or below average pay.

@MAXTORRACER

Жыл бұрын

@@shojo8708 I flip junk I buy at flea markets and work like 20 hours a week and make all the money I need. There are indeed much easier ways to make money

I currently work for a company called palmers food service here in upstate New York, and I can tell you that if it wasn’t for the fact that we get drivers helper, this job will be incredibly tedious. And painful.

Sysco isn't for everyone, but a lot depends on which location you worked for. I worked there for a little over 30 years, made high 80K range when I started, over 100K for my last 20 years before I retired at 55. I'm 5'9", a little over 150 lbs, athletic build, and pretty jacked from years of working out and grocery delivery. I will say for sure it's a physical job, but I didn't find it to be that damn hard. Usually worked about a 10 hour day, (naturally, had my share of 12 hour days too) had plenty of time to spend with my family. Although, I will admit, I've never needed much sleep. Six hours sleep and I'm good to go the next day. Again, I guess it depends a lot on where you worked, but I've heard others talk about a high turnover. Hell, we hardly had a turnover at all. We did in the warehouse with the night shift. Those guys made good money too, but night shifts aren't for everyone. On a funny note, we had a Coke and a beer distributor right down the street from us. Whenever we were hiring we put ads in the paper, but also put up a big banner saying we were hiring. Ha, I would say 95 percent of our new hires came from those two companies. (Bet those two companies HATED seeing that banner go up! They knew they were going to lose some of their best drivers. Kind of funny, I even remember talking once with the transportation supervisor and he said he always did his best not to take all the new hires from just one of the two companies. Said he kind of felt bad about robbing them of 4 or 5 drivers all at once.) They already had a good grasp on what sort of work it was, and they were more than happy to make an extra 40 or 50K a year, plus MUCH better benefits. I will say one thing, I retired VERY WELL from Sysco. I always maxed out my 401K and killed it with my investments. Also, bought a lot of Sysco stock. Between my Sysco pension, (it was sad that they did away with the pension) my 401K, and my stock, I'm bringing in over 100K a year in retirement with zero debt. I could actually make more that that, but I have my funds in pretty conservative investments to minimize risk at my age. Again, I'm not saying being a Sysco driver isn't hard work. Nothing worse than a 100 degree day, or a cold, rainy ass day. I guess I was just blessed to have a physique well suited for hard work and it really didn't bother me. I raised two sons that are in their mid and late thirties now, and I'll guarantee I had plenty of quality time with them. BTW, I SELDOM ever worked a weekend. I bet in 30 years I probably only worked a very few dozen Saturdays in total. We always had plenty of younger drivers that wanted the overtime.

Working for Midstate for two months was a challenging experience. Despite the lack of air conditioning, I had to start my truck with starter fluid every day. On top of that, the micro management from my boss added unnecessary stress as they constantly checked in on my whereabouts every two hours. I was responsible for maintaining 13 schools, a big account at Walmart, two donut stores, and six gas stations, retirement home. With no lift gate or helper, I had to use a hand dolly for all the deliveries. It was physically demanding, and the micro managing only added to the pressure. After dealing with two rude store managers and a boss who constantly breathed down my neck, NO AC truck. I made the decision to quit. The job was too demanding and not worth the $17.00 per hour pay for a CDL driver. The experience taught me the importance of finding a work environment that values its employees and their well-being.

I make 26 an hour and sit in my truck most days. I drive a dump truck. It’s Really chill z

Delivery work ain’t for everybody 💪

@dangerouselite3533

Жыл бұрын

Damn right f that delivery bs😂

@marjankozovski2763

Жыл бұрын

You are right it’s not for the smart ones.

@jrsmac5081

Жыл бұрын

@W900LCrew True, it is hard! But now, since I’m retired, and look back, I am Amazed at the Ability that God Gave me to do such hard work! Couldn’t do it now, and probably wouldn’t want too either!; ; )

@dfaro8453

Жыл бұрын

F that. I won’t do it. I’m not that desperate. 😅 be smart, work smart, and make more to work less. That’s the word of the game

@bobsap1723

Ай бұрын

I’ve done it for Pepsi and I’m currently a shingle truck delivery driver ….. honestly most truck drivers are lazy as shit . I don’t get a lot of people man . Love my job but working on hazmat and tanker soon

When i started driving in '85, i hauled Heinz products out of Fremont Oh. Short trips to Middletown Oh. Everything was stacked nicely on pallets in a 48 ft trailer (this was soon after 48 ft trailers were allowed). When i got to the warehouse, i was told i would have to break down all 22 pallets by hand. You see, the way Heinz staked them wasnt a good fit for the warehouse. They wanted each product stacked on differnt pallets, so many per layer, and so many layers high. Of course the dispatch never told me about this. When i called dispatch, he said either you do it, or you can hire a lumper. Hiring a dock lumper would have cost me about the same as i was getting paid for the trip. So i did it.... ONCE. Next time they tried to dispatch me to that place, i told them to get a bucket of sand, get a hammer, and pound the sand until it becomes glass!

I worked for a company called Benjamin Foods in Hatboro, PA. Drove a tandem axle reefer box truck. My route was Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Day cab and sleep at hotels. Sunday to Wednesday.

I started working for this company a few weeks ago. First paycheck 36 hours I did for that week & was only paid $400. Driving a manual freight liner pulling 53 footers to only get paid 400 is very depressing

@NapalmAtSunrise

Жыл бұрын

Get the hell outta there dude

@JohnnyCadillac1994

Жыл бұрын

I'd quit then and there 🤣 I'd refuse to work till they give me the missing $1000

@makoshark40

Жыл бұрын

Wtf 400$? Your crazy as hell

@OloRishaCreole504

Жыл бұрын

@@makoshark40 right..he better off workin at McDs

@jaysonb.6669

Жыл бұрын

And then they say there's a shortage of truckers. 🤣🤣

I always ask myself- “will I still care or even remember this in 5 years?” when I make these decisions. Most things in life just aren’t that important. I don’t blame him for quitting. It’s his life to do with as he pleases.

@truckercowboyed2638

Жыл бұрын

Seems pretty weak honestly...you signed up for the job knowing it would be physical....kinda says you didn't do research

@greenwoodfireresponse

Жыл бұрын

@@truckercowboyed2638 yes but some people can think it’s as simple and easy just by looking and reading, but when they get there it’s entirely different from what they thought. At least he was honest to himself and knew it wasn’t for him.

@baymaster20

Жыл бұрын

Fr

@lukeswain1752

Жыл бұрын

​@truckercowboyed2638 Someone who admits they are weak is much stronger than someone who pretends to be strong

@micosstar

Жыл бұрын

@@lukeswain1752 fire wisdom!

Watched my dad leave in a truck when I was 8 years old and mentally he never came back. Last time we talked he threatened to shoot me. I’d probably go crazy stuck in a box all day too. I commend you guys for what you do.

@VIC-ch8hh

6 ай бұрын

Its the day in day out boring crap that burns em out, stuck in a cab 16 hrs per day...Horrible!..Ive been a mechanic for decades, one late nite kooked up in tiny garage working on truck i spazed out from the claustrophic feeling..

@heem9082

6 ай бұрын

Nah your pops just mentally ill

@davehughesfarm7983

5 ай бұрын

"Threatened to shoot me" LOL....I dont me to laugh out loud but I understand chaos... Sad for real....My twisted humor got me...

Sysco sucks. Back in the recession they cut back and a family member of mine lost everything. Had to sign a non-compete to get their severance and ended up losing their house. Just this year an American law came along that banned non-compete clauses... wish it was 15 years earlier.

That unloading is the part that hurts, especially when you get older. I've been a commercial driver since 1988 and all I do is no touch freight. With my bad knee, it's not worth hurting myself and getting laid up where I can't work.

I run intermodal regional all night and love it. I couldn't work local. Too much work, and I'm too old.

I started my trucking career locally and delivered floor loaded, hand-on-product for convenience stores with a reefer pup trailer. Ramp unloading, between 10 and 16 stops on average. Stuck with it for two years to build experience for a better job. Left making shy of 30 an hour. It was rough, running up and down that ramp, worse in bad weather, especially snow covered sidewalks. The place had a revolving door, wasn't for everyone but we had a no-stair policy, unlike other competitors. Best advice, ask the questions. Do the research. Talk to other drivers that run with that company your interested. Safe travel fellow Drivers!

If I couldn't do it, I can't sit here and say anything about anyone else who struggled to do it. Thanks for sharing. Respect to those that can do this type of work for a long time.

I lasted about three days for a trucking company delivering work boots. The boss kept demanding that i drive WAY more hours that is legal. I drove 18 hours a day for three straight days and was exhausted. Very dangerous. And the boss actually brought me in and tried to teach me how to fake the info in my log book to make things look legal. Imagine putting other people in danger like that and not caring one bit about what could happen. Absolutely criminal!

@zazendom977

Жыл бұрын

That's when you secretly record if it's a one party consent state and sue lmao

@ButtmanAtHeart

6 ай бұрын

It’s the driver’s responsibility to drive legal. If an employer insists you run illegal you know who gets in trouble? YOU DO! Not your employer. This is in the drivers handbook. You were tested on this. You’re an idiot if you run illegal. You can easily get another job so there is zero I mean zerrrrrooooo freaking reason to break the law

@mikey92362

6 ай бұрын

@@ButtmanAtHeart and that's why I walked away after three days. I would have walked away after two days, but another guy was there showing me the route, and I would have been stranded in the middle of nowhere with no money. And this was before I had a cell phone. I was young, dumb, mentally exhausted, not thinking clearly, and terrified.

@ButtmanAtHeart

6 ай бұрын

@@mikey92362 good call. I don’t blame you one bit. How long have you been trucking now?

@GEVINCHYGAMEZ

6 ай бұрын

U r a dumbass I woukda did that shit more money..fuckin clown

I truly have a new found respect for drivers. As a female who worked in Warehouse Logistics for many years...i know its back breaking labor. My spine is trashed now. NO job is worth your physical or mental well-being!!!

@sasfiremaiden840

Жыл бұрын

@@DickClark-ok5od No, what's easy is being my own mf boss...which i am now!!!!💯

@mikebasketball11

Жыл бұрын

@@sasfiremaiden840what work do you do? Happy for you 😊

@nevadacario2000

Жыл бұрын

​@@DickClark-ok5oddon't be an asshole im glad i do w9 and not fucking w2 last 2 jobs did not go well.

@klopcodez

Жыл бұрын

Get a new job f that..you shouldn’t be working like that if it’s messing your back they have the machines to lift for a reason

@sasfiremaiden840

Жыл бұрын

@@mikebasketball11 Thank you kindly...a food/drink vendor!!!

Even doing deliveries in boxtail/bobtail trucks is tough... I did it for years and I had to step away from it. Trying to go back to school. I miss the open road and the bittersweet pay but I dont regret leaving.

I almost went with a food service job until I seen the Estes driver freight hauler 87 come on this channel. I went with Estes and grossed $90,000 my first year with them and I did $100,000 last year. I always thought pulling doubles would be intimidating but 5 minutes into driving with them I started laughing at how easy it is. Don't be afraid to try something new. You already stepped up getting a CDL. You just need to keep stepping up to get ahead in life.

It wasn't the right fit for him and he did the best thing for himself. I wish him the best and hope that he finds something way better for himself.

I’m so glad I got into the freight delivery & pick up work I average 14 to 18 stops a day 10 to 11 hours everyday and only drive 40 to 60 miles a day.I average about 70,000 a year.

Sysco warehouses are one of the worst places to deliver to. And the only place I where they rejected part of the load due to damage. It was only a couple of cases, but still I had wait around 3 extra hours while they sorted it out. The pallets were in perfect condition when I opened the doors. I had no control over the unloading process.

It depends on the type of local work you're doing, Cisco is what is known as food service, I used to do this for 7:11. It is definitely backbreaking labor and it's some of the most hardest work you can do with your cdl, but on the flip side you make over six figures a year doing it so it definitely pays you well. Basically you have about 20 stops all over the state that you have to do in one night, you have to unload the truck all yourself, scan in the product at the store, and you have to keep to your deadline usually between 10 to 20 minutes per store. You would be starting about 6:00 p.m. and you usually are working until 6:00 a.m. at least the next morning. Keep in mind that this is all perfectly legal as you have 10 hours of drive time but you have a additional 4 hours of on duty time

@AetherNoble

3 күн бұрын

20 stops? Have fun with the back pain and no social life. 6 figures for you to spend in the hospital bed when you retire lol.

@KarterBigs

3 күн бұрын

@AetherNoble If cou used your equipment right you would have any back issues as it was mostly pallets with a electric pallet Jack. That being said however the social like is 1000% true! I know work as a motorcoach operator driving tours. Still don't got much of a social life but that's more by choice than anything. I absolutely love my current job and wouldn't go back for the world

Good for him. I was an order selector at Sysco, and did that for a year. Crazy work! Ended up quitting and becoming an otr truck driver. Best decision in my life.

I worked for a similar company my first year in trucking. Everyday was an uphill battle. My spiteful dispatcher sent me to Times Square to deliver to the Applebees in the middle of the afternoon. Never again.

@terrionharris348

Жыл бұрын

Lml Ouuu I Know It Was A Pain Trying To Deliver At The Time Of Day

@5.5.Below.5

Жыл бұрын

OOOUUCH!!! As a New Yorker, I hate driving there in my car!!

@terrionharris348

Жыл бұрын

@@5.5.Below.5 lol I Don’t Even Try

If a local truck driving job has you delivering crap off a ramp 5 days a week, dealing with traffic and people, it better be paying $100k minimum

Currently in local food services at a grocery store chain delivery only at night from 6or7pm to about 3am. I’m 6 months in I’m loving it. I’ve been Otr for 5 years. I Started exercising and dieting about 3 months prior to starting my current job. That is only relevant because when I was 28yrs old 330lbs after driving no touch freight for 5 years the idea of any type physical labor seemed unrealistic. But now I’m 292lbs I can manage the job well and my mental clarity is better. Also being able to have daytimes off, I’ve been able to start back college classes, workout more, and spend more time with my wife and kids. ALSO PAY AND OFF DAYS ARE MORE CONSISTENT.

From my experience, that guy who had to walk all that way with an electric jack is probably just happy to have an electric jack...or a liftgate for that matter. And just happy to actually know where is stop is located

@rickerhart907

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha electric pallet jack??! Liftgate??! How about a ramp and a hand truck. 22 t o 28 stops a day. Damn near killed me, but I did it for two years. Lost 30 lb

@jonf2009

Жыл бұрын

@@rickerhart907 9 years 16-18 stops a day all ramp and dolly. Finally found a company that does 8 stops over two day runs with electric jack and a liftgate. Quality of life improved tenfold afterwards. The big three food service companies are a joke, my current employer works me a full day less and I average the same pay.

@Whatta33

Жыл бұрын

No electric pallet jack. Ramp and dolly

@awcm1507

Жыл бұрын

worked for quiktrip and used to have to run stacks of bag in the box syrups and cases of sodas down a fcking ramp with a two wheeler -.- a brake assist dolly was the best a billion dollar company could come up with in 20+ years. they had one trailer with a lift gate to deliver pallets of water and washer fluid

@rickerhart907

Жыл бұрын

@@awcm1507 yeah but if you've ever had the fuck with a liftgate, which seem to have been designed by Satan himself, you would rather have the ramp. Liftgates, unless they are newer and well-maintained, are prone to all kinds of problems especially in freezing weather.

I'm glad the guy was honest.

When I worked for FedEx Freight in the Bay Area, I had to make a minimum of 50 stops a day on four trailers. 6:30am to 9:00pm 5 days a week.

I don't blame him, because I quit my job because the dispatcher was tampering with my tablet, every time I received a load or assignment, my logs and pay weren't correct. I even saw a load that I was currently working on suddenly disappeared off my tablet.

I've been a driver for 6 years, started out driving a 9 car hauler. Then moved to dry van. The job is brutal, they don't care about drivers being human. I can't blame him 🤷🏾‍♂️ surviving out here is crazy 😅

@hitzoneproductions7858

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever thought about working from home? Amex customer service via chat in $30 an hour.

@OneDonMelo

Жыл бұрын

@@hitzoneproductions7858 that almost sounds too good to be true lol

@hitzoneproductions7858

Жыл бұрын

@@OneDonMelo I thought so too. But, I'm doing it now. I do this part time and make/sell beats too.

@IGStrangDaKang

Жыл бұрын

Why go from carhauler to food service??

@OneDonMelo

Жыл бұрын

@@hitzoneproductions7858 definitely going to look into it

I worked for Sysco in NY on a contract job, and it was one of the worst jobs ever. Management was horrible.

I think it depends a lot on what you're used to. I did local for probably 8 years before I went to otr. I absolutely hated it. I went back to local, and have been doing it for 16 years total. I've been hauling fuel for the last 3, and make a hell of a lot more than I did otr, and I'm home every day.

I worked at Sysco Atlanta, 2yrs. 22 stops 1400 cases is a normal work day. 15 stops on a light day.

I'm a flatbed driver and I respect how he feels, atheist he knows his limit.

@z-z-z-z

Жыл бұрын

he's a god fearing man, not an "atheist..."

@wannabeangler

Жыл бұрын

@@z-z-z-z Don't you love typos without spell check? 🤣

@z-z-z-z

Жыл бұрын

@@wannabeangler - wreckin' so...

@sarysa

Жыл бұрын

​@@wannabeanglerautocorrect definitely produced that.

@miguelrobb5719

Жыл бұрын

He may be an atheist but at least he knows when to say “screw this”

You gotta find something that fits your lifestyle. When i got my CDL, i knew OTR wasnt for me. With a family and a little one at home. I needed something local and home everynight. I got lucky and found a position delivering ice. I got a local route and average 7-9 stops a day. Some of my stores are pallet drops but for the majority i fill their boxes. I love it tho. I dont like having to drive all the time and enjoy getting a little exercise in. My days are from 4am to 2-3pm. Alot of times im home before noon.

I’ve been in food service for about 10 to 11 months. I’m starting to realize that just showing up to work and doing your best gives you an advantage. Most can’t do this job!

@mkhanman12345

Жыл бұрын

What are you stating

@younglove3362

6 ай бұрын

That he doesn't mind being pimped out and making a huge conglomerate more rich.

@nightfighter7452

27 күн бұрын

​@@younglove3362 or he could just be in shape😂 How are you gonna criticize someone for finding a job? As if most companies aren't corrupt and don't care about their employees. People have to work somewhere dude lol

@younglove3362

27 күн бұрын

@nightfighter7452 The same reason he found out he was being pimped out. And your passive "he's got to work somewhere" bs is another factor why you get pimped out. And I laugh when it happens because y'all allow it instead of having standards and being passive. You make the jobs worse by staying in instead of having a backbone and not putting up with the nonsense or leaving. That's why I take off and let you yes men learn the hard way.

I live in South Florida and I worked a year for US Foods. The top earning drivers at my DC never made $2,100 a week, and these were guys with over 15 years with the company, who had the top routes, and had to unload over 1,000 cases a day. Yes, it was mostly dropping off pallets without having to break them. But, when you have to move 1,000 lb pallets with a pump jack, no e-jack, it's still back breaking work. Plus, you had to put up with improperly loaded trailers and having to deal with getting in and out of the freezer part of the trailer, which in So. Fla, tires you out exponentially. Food Service local is a young man's game. Oh, and if you're assigned a route that doesn't call for a trailer with a lift gate, you have to ramp everything out. Those ramps are super dangerous, especially when going down with 300-400 pounds on the handtrucks. But, believe it or not, regional work with US Xpress, especially the Dollar Tree deliveries, are worse, as loads aren't palletized and unloading is done case by case.

@luisrosario363

Жыл бұрын

Facts. I did it for about 3 months and pulling a heavy ass pallet w a pump jack over those old ass hotel ramps made me feel like i was doing a strong men competition. Literally pushing your max weight. These companies don't give a damn about you. Fuck food service the absolute pitts of trucking. They make 26/hr barely drive handling 800+ cases a day on the scorching FL heat. No thhanks! On the other hand hazmat jobs get paid the same sometimes more just to connect a few hoses to offload. No brainer! Work smarter not harder. 🤘

@jibril2473

Жыл бұрын

🤮🤮🤮

@georgepatton6195

Жыл бұрын

One of our biggest customers is DQ here in NJ. Not all our trucks had working liftgates due to service issues etc. offloading 40-50/or more cases off the ass end of the truck would break any mortal soul. And if a case broke, the sheer mess its makes. You would rather eat a hamburger from a homeless man's ass than try to work with that stuff all over the floor.

@Stephen.in.Virginia

Жыл бұрын

thank you ! I worked in the data center and underground fiber optics construction industry, sometimes in Miami for int'l undersea fiber routes from South Am, and US Foods in Manassas VA hub close to where I live is situated smack in the middle real estate line up of an infrastructure intense hub of both. I always wondered looking at their trucks everywhere on the roads in NoVA if they were a good company to invest in ? But now I understand them better and the Sysco scheme as well. You have helped me see the breakable part of their business prop.

When you don't know how to say no, this is how your life can wind up

@easternrebel1061

Жыл бұрын

I feel that's why a lot of old geezers and boomers are so bitter. They didn't know when to say no, and assume that because we do, that we're "lazy".

@carlosqlv

Жыл бұрын

lol

@martysochosen

Жыл бұрын

@@easternrebel1061 right ‼️ they don’t even want use to get freedom cause all the bullshit they did 😂. Misery do love company 🤦🏾‍♂️

I work for sygma which is a sister company to Sysco and it is brutal work. Local deliveries 14 to 16 stops. Non stop lifting heavy boxes and hurrying to the next stop to do it again. Theres a reason why it is such high turnover. The last night I worked paid 14 an hour after I did the math. It is absolutely ridiculous. On top of the 14 hours you have to work to get the truck unloaded, they expect you to clean the trailers and fuel them for no pay. The ONLY thing that makes this job seem appealing is when they offer you anywhere from 200 to 1500 dollars of force out pay to work an extra shift. That is usually only in the winter, though.

I did over 20 years local LTL for a couple national carriers. Long haul guys didnt tranition well to p&d OR linehaul. The pace is blistering and you have got to embrace the suck. And produce consistently. I worked 70 hrs in linehaul, 40-50 hrs p&d.. idrove thru multiple backinjuries. A stroke took me out permanently.

I'm 22+ yrs with Sysco in Harrisburg Pa. It is a ball buster some days but I actually enjoy the physical part. I couldn't sit behind a steering wheel all day. I work Mon-Fri, avg 800-900 cases a day. I start at 3am everyday and rarely work past 12:30. Around 45-48 hrs a week and made $93k last yr. Not breaking the bank but doing ok. Job not for everyone and you better be good at backing in tight spaces or ur gonna work alot harder

@KingJRZJ

Жыл бұрын

93k is good money for local company drivers especially since you only less than 50 hours a week. I was making 72 working for Ryder/CVS in NJ going to NYC everyday. I left after a year. Wasn't worth the stress anymore.

@mjpthetrucker9485

Жыл бұрын

Mon - Friday 800 cases a day. Sweet sweet route but you paid dues to get it.

@georgepatton6195

Жыл бұрын

I have a few years on you working for a different company, you haul more pieces than me, my early days I could pull that. I start earlier than you but it's my choice. Like to be on the road get in as many stops before traffic/congestion set in. I work longer hours but at a slower pace than before. Still get home by 2pm at the latest I feel like "dogging" a few extra hours. I don't have the hustle in my step anymore. :)

@stevebryant9972

Жыл бұрын

@George Patton I hear ya. I'm 52 and feel it more everyday. Father time is undefeated. I have the advantage of elec jack and liftgate or I probably wouldn't still be here

@georgepatton6195

Жыл бұрын

@@stevebryant9972 You probably saw my company if you're out of Harrisburg. It was Jack& Jill Ice Cream Company. We have several branches in PA, NJ and Virgina. We were bought out this past January. Our contract is up this October, so we will see what the new company will bring to the table.

Here's the catch. They'll pay you a decent wage, but it's never worth the literal back breaking work. I worked for Dawn Foods, and I would quite literally move 2k+ pounds of 50 lbs. bags and bottles of food products BY HAND a day. This is not an exaggeration. I learned from killing myself doing concrete my entire childhood up until I graduated that I needed to get the hell outta there. That being said, I absolutely respect those guys who've stuck with it. It takes a different kind of person for that work.

Dude I tried Reinhart, or pfg whatever you want to call it. It was 21-24 stops 13-14 hour days. I quit after 2 weeks. I went back to otr. The hell with it. Siysco, Gordon, pfg God bless you guys.

My cousin went into garbage trucking. And loves it the machinery is side robot arm and dumpster ram lift .no person lifting. Though he says the hours are long often 10-12 hr days or more on after holiday pickup. and can be 7 days week if something happened during week, say a winter storm . But he's home every night, and no moving freight around like food delivery

Be happy where your at not for the money but for the sanity 💯

@Kenwood709

Жыл бұрын

Yes, two of my friends from trucking school became o/o and would laugh at me for only making $1k a week. They both sold their trucks and quit driving completely. Towards the end I was making $2k/wk at an easy gig doing short runs. They both said they'd gladly trade to get out of the grind they had just to keep up with expenses.

@RG-qq9eu

Жыл бұрын

​@@Kenwood709 finding those gigs is the hard part

@Kenwood709

Жыл бұрын

@@RG-qq9eu I watched craigslist and called lots of companies asking questions poking holes in their recruiter BS. Found this one and they were exactly what I was looking for and vice versa. It took years but I finally got what I wanted.

I did 30 stops a day for DHL in the 90s but I definitely will not do anything now that requires 50lbs lifting/moving/pulling; it takes a wrong move to get injured which I did and was never the same. No thank you let the CEO/CFO do that job. No local job for me

The XPO LTL gig here in Tampa is sweet we top out at 32 an hour after 2 years but it's supposed to go higher than that

I worked for Mclane and you earn every penny. I'm with LTL company now and made 6 figures every year since starting in LTL and still going strong. Drop and Hook but much respect to those lumper drivers is what I use to call myself.

@Albertalorian

6 ай бұрын

When I got away from OTR, I had a choice of Food Service (Core Mark) or LTL with a medium size company. Not a single person told me to do Food Service, so I went LTL. 5 years later, running a Day Cab/53 Van local around the city, is the best thing ever!!!

Hey, I did beer service for 12 years, the most dishonest thing I have ever done. This was a teamster union job that was very aware of the nefarious practices the company was doing. The company will steal from you every second they get. I would caution everyone to stay away from beer or soda.

@ProleDaddy

Жыл бұрын

Teamsters dairy is the same. The entire logistics industry is especially bad.

@RossMalagarie

Жыл бұрын

the mob didn't die they just changed how they work

@jonf2009

Жыл бұрын

Never understood the beer and Pepsi guys, with the level of work they had to do even normal shite food service would've been better for them income wise.

I started OTR and wife said you need to be home more so I tried XPO. They said their Linehaul guys make $100K. I stayed 6 months, made $600 - $800 a week. Wife said you need to go back on the road. 😂

@mjpthetrucker9485

Жыл бұрын

LOL

@maseratirue8010

Жыл бұрын

Man that's funny 😂😂 I'm a drop and hook guy my self

@younglove3362

Жыл бұрын

Dumbest thing you did was get married.

@stevew.7245

Жыл бұрын

LOL, been there, done that..😅

@Stephen85

Жыл бұрын

Yeah she wanted you back out there so the pool boy can start coming back over...

Hey I quit fast food after one shift. Worked as a janitor for 3 years then went to school for my current career. At the end of the day you have to wake up everyday to do the work so do something that sits well with you.

Hey Dude, You have an amazing channel. I wish you all the best in the future.

My dad was 5'10" 250lbs. He could move tons of material by himself. He refused to do local delivery because of exactly what you show here. He hated triples as well. He said that would be the death of not just Trucking but people as well. Trucking ruined his health for good. He never recovered after his 40 years in. Half of the people he was working with were coking, drinking, and/or popping pills just to manage the pain from basically doing a job similar to running a ruck 21, or competing in the crossfit games every day. I refused to get into trucking. He loved long haul. Why didn't the Unions ever do anything about this? Also I worked on docks where one man per bay all night was expected, demanded, and if you didn't take drugs you could not get the work done. They would fire you. I lasted one summer at that dock and then just died one day because I refused to take drugs to keep going. I quit. They begged me to come back. I did, they fired me. Where was the brotherhood then? Nowhere. After three different unions I refuse to work as a union member now. They are all corrupt or become corrupt as they get jobs of leadership within the corporations. You all should be working two men to a truck or 1/3 loads per day. Easy stuff that way. But no, the unions cave or the big guys who are all coked up give you shit for being weak. Brother if you are trucking, you aren't weak. If you are working food delivery and don't need to stop, you are not weak.

@mattbba8451

Жыл бұрын

@Electronics and Ventilation Cleaning Services You see that is where you and every beggar are in the dark. We have proven over the last 350 years that one way or another we will not take no for an answer. We don't need solidarity, We don't need patriotism and we sure as shit don't need the rich. All we need is to understand that without us people like you can come in and divide, instigate hate and, honestly, spread cowardice. So if you don't have the knowledge then get some before you pipe up like a 12 year old with a water gun. You are part of the problem if you can't stand your ground against someone as ignorant as me huh? Move on or get with the people. To quote someone even you can recognize, Arnold Schwarzenegger said in his most condescending way, " Do good and be useful." Your attitude about the American people is neither. Also maybe look up the words you chose to use and think about those definitions in terms of everyone - not just you, alone, cleaning a vent. My dad used to get all up in his head. He would get so angry and silent. Then he would drive 2000 miles and un-freight 80,000 lbs by himself. You mistake my logistical talent for innocents. You misread my hope as ignorance. Silly human, tricks are for kids.

@zerocal76

Жыл бұрын

@@E.V.C.E. You call him ignorant and ignore that he's not talking about cultures or different types of ppl. His entire post focused on companies, individuals within those companies and their work relationships. You call him ignorant, I call you dumb for your irrelevant response to his post.

@robslams2324

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely nothing like doing a workout marathon. Even running one mile would be harder than trucking. I know it's a hard job. But you can't compare it to actual working out man.

@mattbba8451

Жыл бұрын

@@robslams2324 You have no idea what you are talking about.

@robslams2324

Жыл бұрын

@mattbba8451 ok delusional npc. You have no idea what real discipline is. Go wipe the pb&j Mac and cheese out of the corner of your mouth and listen to daddy.

I deliver beer for 10 years it's a young man's job del food it's a real hard job

@darylebarnes4300

Жыл бұрын

beer is harder

3 Cheers for Jawonn at Pepsi in Wichita Falls. He represents the professional truckers in the industry well.

I try not to think how bad we get taken advantage of in this industry. I don’t want this to get to me as a rookie owner operator, but I fully understand that this career path isn’t for everyone.

As a driver who has been both OTR and local for my career I’ve gone back and forth my entire career to what fits me best at the stage of my life. I finally decided to get off the road for good and go back to delivering gasoline locally in Florida. Local can be painstaking in city traffic all day and usually do 2-3 stops a day and 300-600 miles daily All younger drivers need to know is the more time you invest in getting in to a specialized field of trucking, the more you will make. It’s a career not just a job. Stay safe!!!

@mike1691

Жыл бұрын

how can you do 300-600 miles daily when its only 2-3 stops wheres all the mileage coming from

@bobbybland4979

Жыл бұрын

​@@mike1691 the stops are most likely great distances apart sir

@horsefly1020

Жыл бұрын

​@@mike1691 easy when the stops are far enough apart.

@Thats_X_

Жыл бұрын

That the only thing that seems like it’s worth it local work in Florida is fuel hauling. You can do between company driver or owner operator. I spoke with a owner operator in central Florida he said his truck bring home $200k a year.

@russelljohansen3328

Жыл бұрын

@@Thats_X_ I agree. Any type of tanker work is good here. Especially petroleum, concrete and asphalt. You can make $100k annually here hauling fuel. Drivers are getting out of control here and hard to keep patient because seems like a melting pot of people from different states and the “New York Driving” state of mind has followed everyone down here and has rubbed off on each other. There are so many fatality accidents in the Tampa Bay region almost daily. There was a big 24 car pile up yesterday, Sunday, on 75 North in Ocala behind another fatal accident involving 2 big trucks.

Aw this reminds me of my beginnings as a truck driver back in 2018. I started out with US Xpress through there truck driving school in Waco, TX and got on the road with a trainer. The trainer had no idea how to actually train me and had me immediately driving with zero experience and luckily for him I actually was practicing and studying exactly what I would need to do once I got into the truck so I was pretty well off despite having no actual experience other than some very short seat time at the school. I ended up switching places with him back and forth until I transferred from US Xpress to their subsidiary contractor or whatever they're called what was known as, "Swift enterprises". A lot of people at this point think I'm referring to Swift transportation that is infamous in our industry but they're not the same thing. I used to deliver for Swift enterprises to the Northeast almost exclusively including NJ, NY, MA, ME, VT, PA, and some others outside like SC and IL. I had to go to Master Brand cabinets distribution and pick up their preloaded trailers from their lot and grab the paperwork and drive towards my destination. Upon arrival at stop one I had to unload all of the customer's products somewhere between 50 to 250 lb per box and all of the boxes were stacked from the nose to the doors and from the ceiling to the floor unpalletized. A lot of the times the loaders at the distribution didn't put everything in order so I would have to downstack and reorganize and then re-strap everything back into place. Typically per stop I would have to unload around 3,000 lb or so for a total of around 9 stops roughly in total equating to 27,000 lbs on average. Each stop was located usually in separate states or relatively close by on some and further away on others. All of the places where I was unloading these cabinets were lumber yards and the like in which it was nothing but hilly dirt roads and snow covered roads with no lights hardly and wild animals all over the place. Sometimes these deliveries would take multiple days to complete based on the schedule because you aren't allowed to deliver early by a customer request. Other times you were allowed to complete early but then the next customer would get pissed that you showed up early because they expected you to show up on time. I did this for about 2 years straight and the entire time I never took a day off from work or had any real energy to go out and have fun spending my money on interesting things. Mind you I lived in Texas and here I am in the Northeast with a s*** ton of money and too depressed to spend it on anything and too exhausted to want to do anything. To this day my family says, "what real work have you actually done?", In regards to my truck driving career and I just kind of laughed to myself because they're extremely ignorant.

@ItsStribe

5 ай бұрын

Invest your money into a business

I drive local delivering milk. 3-6 stops (today was 3 stops mostly because my last stop was SUPPOSED to be heavy... warehouse royally screwed our customer today...) I drive only 280-310 miles a day, average weight of 37K-40K. My route comes with a pay incentive due to it being the second furthest, take home about $1400/wk, each dolly set of milk is 400lbs and I average between 15-32 dolly per stop. I run into pepsi drivers every now and then, they respectfully move out of our way when we are pushing the milk... they have power-jacks where we use our legs and arms to push and pull this milk to the cooler (sometimes its a walk.. 100yrds for one store... depending on it's layout ofc) Luckily my route I don't have far to go, my own door, and can unload within 15 minutes, then count(next stop) and load empties takes another 15-20 (depends on how we do it) Mclane and Sysco and other groups that use the ramps out their truck is oof rough (did Mclane, lasted two months (could have lasted longer if they had lift gates but that ramp is way to hazardous for me to work for them) and one month of that was getting the CDL lol)

I worked for Penske Logistics on a Starbucks account. It was a lot of work. The only upside was that we got paid per stop, so if you can run it fast, then you were off work sooner. The pay was pretty good, it was just the work you had to put in on top of the driving.