i never worked otr. i got a local job out of school worked there 4 years quit making round 22.50 and hour because im a complete idiot. had a big beef with the boss and just lost my cool. i regret it... now i work for pfg and ugggg my body feels like its been ran over by a bus..... hey DAWN driver, you work for dawn in edison nj? at least u get hourly and overtime... but i agree lumping all day sucks. im tired of it already

 

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Daylightchasser, You might give Eby-Brown a call in Plainfield. Also, HOGAN recently took over Caito Foods transportation and I see ads for HOGAN all of the time.

 

Their desperate... they'll hire anyone. The turn-around rate for food service drivers is extremely high... its back breaking work, all day long, dealing with the unhappiest people on the planet (most of whom think you work for them). I did it for a year (for IWC -www.goiwc.com- not for Sysco... Sysco pays a hell of a lot better.) I was getting up at 3 am and not getting home till 6 pm M-F and taking home around $550 a week. The Sysco drivers (out of Nashville) I talked to said they do about $1000 a week. The IWC website says minimum 6 months experience but they hired a couple guys fresh out of trucking school when I was there.

If you like working your @$$ off 14+ hours a day, and getting home just in time to collapse in your bed... then food service is right up your alley. :wink:

 

Slave wages for this type of work.

Not all companies are like that. I have nevered worked a 14+ hour day when I did local deliveries. My longest days were 12 hours. :wink:
You might have found one of those small Foodservices companies that could care less about the drivers and kiss the customers butt. They pay slave wages and work the drivers to death because they are often unstaffed.
Nationally reconized and private fleets is were the money and respect are in foodservice. I know that I'm happy and make a good living and don't regret the last five years :wink: .

 

You nailed it right on the head! It is a small company and they keep trying to compete with Sysco, PFG, US Foods, Gordon, and others. I liked it when I first started... I never liked getting up at 3am but I was usually home by 1 or 2. The longer I worked there, however, the more stops they kept adding... sometimes getting over 20 covering 3 or 4 counties. Got my first (and only) speeding ticket in a CMV while driving for them.

 

And you hit the nail right on the head there. The quickier you are and get down, the more they want out of you. Last company tried to do that to me on my regional run but we had a nice chat with safety and explained to them what HOS are .

Now the private fleet that I am with, if your done faster then what the paper says it should be, so be it. We run teams out and back, come back empty(except for empty dough trays that we pick up at the stops.) The runs I'm on are 22,17, and 25 hours. Just came back onto those runs two weeks ago. Turned them in 19.5,15, and 21.5(and still made good money ). And the speeding ticket thing, yup know many drivers that get those trying to get thier stops done. As I always say, make time at the stops(but do it safe), not on the road were you can hurt or kill someones family, not worth it.

 

Well lets not over-exaggerate things... I wasn't doing 110mph drunk through a school zone at 3pm... I was doing 62 in a 55 on a barren 4-lane hwy.

 

That was meant as a general statement and not directed towards you. Sorry. ops:

 

No problem. :wink: