Truck Driver Quits After 2 Days Of Local Trucking & Thousands Of Truckers Hate On Him 😵
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- Truck Driver Quits After 2 Days Of Local Trucking & Thousands Of Truckers Hating On Him
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Thoughts???? Is Local harder than OTR?????
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This is y I whont work local work harder for less money not worth it amd I still not home
Local ain't trucking. It's delivery with a trailer
Like you not a trucker
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
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.
100% accurate 👍
I agree.
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
100%.
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.
That's why I became a trucker I drive the flatbed right now
Some folks like to be alone.
He didnt lie to you. Most people wont tell you the truth about shit.
@@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
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.
It should not be for nobody. It’s not worth it at all
Don’t look like he quit trucking. He quit Sysco
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.
While daily taking out prolly $100,000 worth of freight per day!!!
Exactly 🎉
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.
60k = less than 47k after taxes, assuming you don't eat ands pay any bills, 47k is poverty for truckers.
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.
How can you be mad at someone who makes a decision about his life 😩🤦🏽♂️. Trucking can be brutal.
Great statement. Thank you.
Insecure people are addicted to passing judgment. 😂
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
@@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.
Bet it's not worse than New Orleans 😂
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.
It ain't no easy peezy fuck a lift gate
"Not scared of hard work" equals out, to me at least, "If you want to be treated like dirt and have no hometime".
Yes those days are over. It's a wrap!
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.
What company? What do you haul?
If you’re not home everyday you’ll have a Sancho in no time.
Fr what company
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.
Local work is waaaayyyy more work. They'll definitely try to kill you...especially food service
I have worked in restaurants and stocking Sisco orders was one of the worst parts of the job.
"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.
I did this for few years never again sygma use two pay good but you work for every dollar really hard
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.
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.
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.
@@thelotus8285 unions are a joke. They rob you of a chunk of your earnings to side with your company anyways. LoL
@@thelotus8285 My last union job sucked.
We used to joke that the union represented the company more than the workers.
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
@@thelotus8285 Sysco drivers make over $100k per year plus company paid bennies. That's good!
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 $3.80 per hour. I last 3 weeks. I quit after my 2nd check arrived. I know I’m a driver but I’m not stupid. We should go union and have our pay governed the fair labor and standards act instead of the bullsh-t FMCSA.
Wow My dad had a vending route for Vernors back in the 80s. He left the house at 6:30am and was back by 5:00, weekends off. He typically made between 450 to 600 a week (1300-1700 in today's dollars). It was a comfortable living, but then the plant shut down in '87 and he got laid off for good.
Fucking sad man
When I hear "I'd rather be dead than union" from drivers...
I quit driving trucks in 2018. It was the best decision I’ve ever made. I went back to school and got my plumbing license
You went from delivering shit to unclogging it
@@afridgetoofar1818plumbers make great money trucking isn’t the only thing where you make money
My heart goes out to these men. Truckers deserve better than what these companies are doing to them.
As a trucker,I appreciate that.
whats even more sad the truckers who clown on him tolerate the bs and therefore enabling/encouraging this behavior. They get spat on the face and they think just because they can tolerate it then it makes them a man. Nah thats just lack of self respect.
Not doing anything worse than what local delivery service did a 100 years ago, 50 years ago and every day to deliver food and supplies for the public.
They will never get better without a Union.
@@Puggy42069pros and cons to a union buddy
“If you’re not scared of hard work” no one’s scared of hard work but the hard work needs to match the pay and of people are out here driving semis for 20$ 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
I agree 100% brother
Sysco is a whole nother universe. Nobody should have to endure that.
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.
@@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
80-100k?? Sure if you are racking up the overtime. Can you do that as a driver? No way, maybe in the oilfield
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.
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.
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
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.
F that
@@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!!!
@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!
@@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.
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.
What Ltl?
Less than truckload I’m currently working at Coca Cola as a truck driver I plan to go LTL after 2 years
@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.
Fuel hauling is where it's at
@@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 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
Thank you for shedding light on the subject 😎👍
I don’t blame him, that’s a back breaking job, I’d quit too.
And it doesn't pay much
@@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.
@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.
new hire, you already know he got the bs route on top
Crybabies
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. 💯
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.
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.
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.
Fuck
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 helped out Sysco a few times running some routes. That shit is hardcore. Those guys deserve the big bucks.
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!!
Good for you fuck fedex
Yikes. Can you even refuse to do the delivery?
@@davidharrow9025 no not really unfortunately
@@davidharrow9025 also I worked for a contractor, maybe it’s different in-house. Good benefits and pay though I will say.
@@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
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.
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!!!!
@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
God bless you
@@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...
@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.
not a trucker but Just started a new job at a big plumbing supply house and Ive worked my ass off usually labor jobs and I felt this way with this job. I had thoughts of quitting my first 2 days working.. As a plumber I thought selling parts to the other plumbers would be easy warehouse work but when I started I was thrown in by someone who didnt know how to train and was not the one to do so. Was shown from a to z on all the systems and scanner gun. Learned it ok in the first couple days but the front desk computer taking orders was so damn confusing for me. all hot key codes to do anything or enter anything and none of it makes sense.. This part really gave me anxeity.. Nothing worse then a guy in a time crunch to get to his next job on time dealing with a guy learning a computer program. Anyway It was a ton of walking and still learning that system but I did stick it out and i honestly love the hell out of the job. I work so damn hard and every day i feel accomplished ! I come home feeling strong and altho that system is a pain in the ass its a challenge and we should always challenge our self. I think if he stuck it out for a week or 2 Those big orders would get a bit easier. Oil rig workers hate that job for the first year I bet but in the end become roughnecks and love the badass work! Dad was a trucker! U guys rock!!
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 🤷🏾♂️
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!!
🎁💗🎁💗🎁👑💎👑💎👑💎☝BRAVO.. YOUR A KING AND A CHAMPION..STAY BLESSED💎👌🐭
I make 26 an hour and sit in my truck most days. I drive a dump truck. It’s Really chill z
I used to work as a swing driver for Anheuser Busch in Lima Ohio. That job was the hardest job I've done yet, physically and mentally. However, I also loved that job. As a swing driver, I didn't have my own set route. Instead, I covered for other drivers when they couldn't do their routes for any reason. Not only did I have to do their routes, which could have up to 16 stops and deliver over 2000 cases of beer + kegs, I had to do them basically blind and learn them as I did them. I was making 19 an hour and got like a 7 cent commission for each case, 25 per keg. I was making what for me was good money at the time. Also, i saw the intense physical work as a day-long workout that I was being paid to do, so to me that part was actually an upside. I wasn't always driving though. Sometimes I was in the warehouse, which I also loved because I was still getting 19 an hour base pay to do what I considered easy work with a forklift. Maybe I'm just a masochist, but I enjoyed the challenge that job brought and loved trying to figure how to conquer it. I'm actually looking to do it again soon but in my hometown in Hialeah Florida where I currently am. I have a job that by all intents and purposes is easier in almost every way but I think it sucks ass.
I've been wanting to do OTR just to see how it was. I've always thought it was harder because of the veeeery long drive times though, but after watching seeing how these guys reacted to local driving in this vid I'm starting to think I'll probably be able to handle it pretty well.
food service now is worst.... tje demand is so frustrating and exhausting...
At least he had the courtesy of giving 2 weeks. Most companies fire you without notice! 🤨
For reals!
He did the right thing. It's better to admit defeat than to be slaughtered like an animal.
No most drivers quit without giving notice because they no that job sucks 💯
@@maseratirue8010 That's the difference between a Professional Truck Driver and a wanna be 🤨
@@Raphael6969 Yea I hear you Ralph but some companies play with your money when put you two weeks in
@@maseratirue8010 just because someone else chooses to be an a**hol doesn't mean I have to be the same. 🤨
Delivery work ain’t for everybody 💪
Damn right f that delivery bs😂
You are right it’s not for the smart ones.
@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!; ; )
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
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
I drive for Amazon. It’s not too bad other than having to do a lot of night driving. I get two runs a week usually the runs last 48 hours and in between the Ron I’m home for 24 hours and I have Saturday and Sunday off and I just started doing this for my first truck and drive in 13 years.
Hey bro tell me more about this job. They told me 4 days work a week, and you only sleep in the truck 2 days, and over time after 40. How many hours do you average a week, I know it’s not the best money out there but now, I am chasing easy jobs to focus on my side business, and 3 days off in one week is perfect for me
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.
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!!!
Where u work?
@@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.
We’re u work
I work for USA truck
Plenty of other DCs have their own fleets. Walmart and Publix are some. Harris Teeter too.
I run intermodal regional all night and love it. I couldn't work local. Too much work, and I'm too old.
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
I've been driving local for over 30 years and I love it. I have about 30 stops a day and make a little over 100k a year. I work around 13 hours a day in the furniture industry. It's hard work but I'm used to it now. By the way I'm 67 years old and plan on retiring at the end of the year.
Nice keep it moving
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
Get the hell outta there dude
I'd quit then and there 🤣 I'd refuse to work till they give me the missing $1000
Wtf 400$? Your crazy as hell
@@makoshark40 right..he better off workin at McDs
And then they say there's a shortage of truckers. 🤣🤣
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.
I know many doubt this but it's true. These younger guys coming in the industry don't want to work.
Sad part is the freight ain’t paying what it should
I make about 31 an hour doing Instacart. There are much easier ways to make money
"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.
@@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 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 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.
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!
That's when you secretly record if it's a one party consent state and sue lmao
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
@@TheButtman420 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.
@@mikey92362 good call. I don’t blame you one bit. How long have you been trucking now?
U r a dumbass I woukda did that shit more money..fuckin clown
Come drive a city bus here in Phoenix. Top pay is 31hr with unlimited o.t. New contract will top out at 35hr. That poor guy deserves so much better.
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.
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.
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.
ive had over 48 trucking jobs never gave a 2 week…when they say F me i say F them right back…just never abandon the truck and always make sure you leave it at the terminal…currently about to start job 49
Concrete Mixer truck worst truck job ever.
Low pay and lots of BS
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
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.
Mon - Friday 800 cases a day. Sweet sweet route but you paid dues to get it.
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. :)
@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
@@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.
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!!!
@@DickClark-ok5od
No, what's easy is being my own mf boss...which i am now!!!!💯
@@sasfiremaiden840what work do you do? Happy for you 😊
@@DickClark-ok5oddon't be an asshole im glad i do w9 and not fucking w2 last 2 jobs did not go well.
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
@@mikebasketball11
Thank you kindly...a food/drink vendor!!!
I make over 100k a year working for papa johns. 2 routes a week. I run from SLC to Aurora Colorado to Rexburg back to SLC once a week and then from west valley city to aurora Co to tooele back SLC . 2700 miles, 2500 pieces, 22 stops.
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.
What a joke. This companies are literally slaving this guys. They must go on strike till they get at least double the pay. I now I would if I was in there shoes!
And you will not be successful in your strike.
How about just leave for better pay and work environment.
Enough people do that and the company will get the message.
The problem is that the job of a driver is just driving..........
What they should do is limit their hours to 40 a week. Have them drop pallets at the store and allow the store employees to take apart the pallet. Also, double their pay. They will for sure keep drivers that way. I don't think they will ever do that though...
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.
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.
Some local driver jobs are harder than others. I am a retired tractor trailer driver if 30 years. I deliver milk and ice cream to Schnucks for 30 years. Our stuff was pallet used so it was easy. I delivered milk to Sysco for 10 years. There trucks look like UPS trucks. Boxes from front to back. Sysco drivers have to use 2 wheelers and side lifts. Sysco drivers earn every penny they make. Super hard job. We delivered to PFG also and their trucks were loaded the same way. These drives earn every penny they make
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.
Seems pretty weak honestly...you signed up for the job knowing it would be physical....kinda says you didn't do research
@@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.
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@truckercowboyed2638 Someone who admits they are weak is much stronger than someone who pretends to be strong
@@lukeswain1752 fire wisdom!
I worked at Sysco Atlanta, 2yrs. 22 stops 1400 cases is a normal work day. 15 stops on a light day.
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.
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!!!
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.
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. 😂
LOL
Man that's funny 😂😂 I'm a drop and hook guy my self
Dumbest thing you did was get married.
LOL, been there, done that..😅
Yeah she wanted you back out there so the pool boy can start coming back over...
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 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’ve been running local for a year and let me tell you now, even if you’re just bumping docks, no touch freight I always tell drivers
If you’re not fighting your sleep, you’re fighting with everyone else on the road!
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.
Lml Ouuu I Know It Was A Pain Trying To Deliver At The Time Of Day
OOOUUCH!!! As a New Yorker, I hate driving there in my car!!
@@5.5.Below.5 lol I Don’t Even Try
Everyone is different. I have done OTR, regional, and dedicated. I am at my 6 year mark of having my CDL and currently a spotter driver at a company only 4 blocks from my house. I will make 65k this year. I only work 10 hour days and 6-8 hours on Saturday. My friends make fun of me, cause I am not a "real" trucker now. I don't care. It pays so well to just drive around on one property all day and only 4 blocks from my house. I will say this.. You get better rest as a sleeper cab driver, compared to day cab and spotter.
30 years of driving otr and local and I finely found the best driving job I have ever had. Saia LTL line haul is so easy and pay is amazing and they treat me right.should have been driving for saia 25 years ago.
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
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.
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. 🤘
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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.
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.
3 Cheers for Jawonn at Pepsi in Wichita Falls. He represents the professional truckers in the industry well.
I'll go back to being a yard switcher before that mess.... I might be moving 50-80 trailers a night, but atleast I was making 23hr which now they just got a dollar raise over there. I just went back trucking on a dedicated lane for some people I been with for the last 6 years and right now I leave out Weds afternoon and I'm back by Saturday afternoon or Sunday Mornings making 1400 Gross pay in this crappy freight market. When we did furniture, I might do 6 stops a day and move about 161 pieces of furniture to the back of the trailer for the customer, but I was getting $25 after the 2nd stop, plus another 75-100 for it being driver assists. Home everyday. I think during covid I would do about 3 runs on Tues/Weds/Thurs and make about 1500-2500 and then go be a switcher Fri/Sat/Sun working 12hour shifts there for 34.5hrs each week with full benefits and PTO. Ain't no way I would do some of that local garbo they're doing.
I'm local and haul us mail I had gotten my 2 years experience and went and did that I grossed 85k last year I will gross 100k this year I don't even touch the freight
What company?
When you don't know how to say no, this is how your life can wind up
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".
lol
@@easternrebel1061 right ‼️ they don’t even want use to get freedom cause all the bullshit they did 😂. Misery do love company 🤦🏾♂️
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 have a sysco near me and thought about working there. After I found out they had to do all the unloading and stuff and get paid the exact same as if you do drop and hook, I didn't even apply
I deliver beer for 10 years it's a young man's job del food it's a real hard job
beer is harder
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.
Teamsters dairy is the same. The entire logistics industry is especially bad.
the mob didn't die they just changed how they work
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.
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.
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..
Nah your pops just mentally ill
"Threatened to shoot me" LOL....I dont me to laugh out loud but I understand chaos... Sad for real....My twisted humor got me...
Ive done miller lite, bud light. coke and pepsi and they all suck. They dont care how much the job breaks down your body
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.
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
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
@@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.
No electric pallet jack. Ramp and dolly
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
@@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.
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
i got tired of the cops at the scale houses giving me shit everytime i pulled into one. the particular one in washington state that cemented my decision to quit was the worst. the officer called me a liar about my last break. i followed the rules to the letter and get nothing but hate from every aspect of the job.
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 😅
Have you ever thought about working from home? Amex customer service via chat in $30 an hour.
@@hitzoneproductions7858 that almost sounds too good to be true lol
@@OneDonMelo I thought so too. But, I'm doing it now. I do this part time and make/sell beats too.
Why go from carhauler to food service??
@@hitzoneproductions7858 definitely going to look into it
I'm a flatbed driver and I respect how he feels, atheist he knows his limit.
he's a god fearing man, not an "atheist..."
@@z-z-z-z Don't you love typos without spell check? 🤣
@@wannabeangler - wreckin' so...
@@wannabeanglerautocorrect definitely produced that.
He may be an atheist but at least he knows when to say “screw this”
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 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.
Be happy where your at not for the money but for the sanity 💯
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.
@@pantherk709 finding those gigs is the hard part
@@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.
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.
I dont work for anything that is touch freight. Im 100 pound 4ft 11 female....nope. When I get my 6 month to 1 year experience I'm moving to a local job.
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.
Nobody in their right would work for Sisco driving a truck anyway
I worked for a local company that delivered to ranch and farm stores. Mostly palletized but some hand dolley. Expected me to leave Oklahoma city early morning and deliver in the Dallas area with 10 to 15 stops then make it back in 11-14 hours! 500+ miles round trip then back on a legal elog! Lol
I could never do it!
Insane expectations!
I worked a bit over a year and found OTR not good for my health. Now I work local in San Diego doing these types of deliveries, also union. For me, this transition saved my trucking career.
I was an OTR driver for many years, and I almost never was home. And when I was, I was or was sleeping or fixing the truck. Since 2019, I am local and I am so happy that I quit the OTR.
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.
@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.
@@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.
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.
@@robslams2324 You have no idea what you are talking about.
@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.