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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.
Certain jobs yes, tanker, belly dumps, bulk, ABF, shuttle runs. No waiting at docks for hours, if you cross scales it’s the same ones daily less hassle from local DOT they usually pay more attention to the out of town OTR trucks at least they do in New Mexico. Don’t think you could pay me enough to sleep in a truck again, I like being home too much enjoying the life my money is buying for my family and myself. And I work 10-11 hours a day and off 3 days a week it’s rough being home that much and eating home cooked meals and spending time with the wife and kids, but someone’s got to do it. I figured after 3 million + miles I’ve paid my dues so real trucking or not I’ll keep my in town gig as for the “real” trucking, been there done that. Oh yeah, get paid for every minute being in the truck, not like unpaid 10 and 34 hour resets at customer docks, rest areas, or truck stops…
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.
@@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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
@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.
@@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 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.
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
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!!
@@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.
“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
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
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
@@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.
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!!
@@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
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!!!
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.
😂 15k would be easy I used to do 32k on a particular night and I would finish in about 10-11 hours. Easy sailing it was floor stacked and running up and down the ramp.
Its not a life! Your state of mind is exhausted, not relaxed at all. This is back breaking, you don't live for anybody but really the company.I find the people that work these jobs aren't very family or even really home period.
@@bisdaktruckerusa697 What is your point? did you read what I said? I work as a trucker, and one of the problems in trucking is guys like you..I am sure you are a good worker, and you let job become you,but its not a balanced normal life.Do you know trucking has one of the highest suicide rates as a profession.Honestly most guys can't even talk and have a 5 minute conversation,I'll include the packers and shipper/receivers all just trying to make it through the day.Half the truckers are divorced,medicated or on pot/vaping constantly its gross.Maybe before speaking ,consider listening,take care.
I’ve been at Sysco for nearly four years, there are no 16 hour days. Your DOT clock is 14 hours long anyway. Not that there haven’t been times when I’ve worked the whole 14 hours - and then some. I’m not defending Sysco, it’s a sh!t company and a sh!t job in so many ways, but a more average day for me is around 10 hours.
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. 💯
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.
@@jonf2009it’s true, nearly every warehouse eff up filters down to the driver and affects his own performance measure. Middle management is low quality and inattentive unless it’s to cover their butts about something. And top management is all lip service about appreciation for all the hard work.
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.
Who told him to have 7 kids, people like that make it sound like they had no choice and it was thrust upon them. You created this situation, deal with it.
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.
"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
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 have been driving since 2012. I started out OTR, and switched to local in 2014. I am in the Columbus Ohio area where there are thousands of jobs for drivers on any given day. I have literally quit a job and had another before I walked the 100 yards to my car. But I have a clean record and work hard to keep my CDL clean. In my experience the smaller the company the better you are treated. Food service is a young mans job for sure. Back breaking work period. Local driving in my opinion is better than OTR for the lifestyle I want. Right now I work LTL and do about 6 to 10 stops in a day. Tight in and out a lot of times . But I don't touch the freight anymore. My last job was hospital delivery which was crazy stuff. Taking a tractor trailer into hospital docks that are designed for box trucks. Then finger printing the freight all over the hospital. I did it for 6 years. I live in the country and drive a hour to work everyday do 10 to 14 and drive a hour home. Turning 62 in a couple months and switching to farm work. Hauling milk and grain 15 minutes from the house. Number one thing is keep your CDL clean and know the laws that are there to protect you and don't be afraid to use them. Keep your personal debt load down so changing jobs doesn't put you in a bind. Anything that is food service, beverage, hospital, etc. is going to be physical plus require good driving skills. A steering wheel holder won't make it. They will tear stuff up. Better to refuse a stop on a safety call and have to get another job than have a accident and put a mark on your CDL. You have to be easy to insure to have a lot of options. OTR or Local ? That depends on the individual and what they are capable of in driving skills and physically. " A man has to know his limitations" .
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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'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 😅
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
@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!; ; )
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 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.
@@Vagabond_Etranger 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.
@@Vagabond_Etranger I worked for a small oil company called Boncosky Oil company. They have mergerd with a bigger company since I left. I serviced big excavating companies and company's with ground tanks for their fleet. Mostly diesel fuel and the pay was salary plus commission on the gallons dropped. Average driver was around 74k a year and seniority drivers with big drop routes 110k a year. I'm not sure what's the pay as of now. Like I said I left that place and went to a road striping company. Been here 19 years or so. Time goes fast. Worked my way up to a Forman. Hourly wage here is $43.10 to $45.10. That's in the Chicago area. You can find a lot of jobs driving and yes it helps knowing people in the field but it's possible. My brother just started 3 weeks ago hauling material for a company that specializes in bridges. Starting pay for him was $51.20 hour. Keep looking. Pray to God. Have faith and be good to people. The big guy usually comes around. Good luck.
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!!!
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.
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.
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!
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
@@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.
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 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.
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.
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 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. 🤘
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
@@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.
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
"Trucking" wasn't the problem. Unloading a trailer of crap by yourself every day was the problem. I used to work security at a fast food warehouse and the truckers worked themselves to the bone. They would be gone for 1-4 days at a time and they had to unload an entire 53' trailer by hand. Not only that but they had to wheel it into the fast food locations AND put it away on the shelves, freezer, etc. The warehouse workers were slackers that usually didn't finish loading the trailers, so the drivers had to go in the warehouse and finish loading their trailer as well. After watching them come back looking like they were about to die, I decided that the only trucking jobs worth considering are 100% no-touch.
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 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.
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.
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.
It’s a lot easier than being a loader for Pepsi. I worked in the Austin warehouse. No AC. Making and loading pallets, dripping sweat for 12-14 hours a day. Truckers make 28 an hour. We made 20 an hour. Truckers get to drive around in AC. Loaders get to feel AC on their lunch break. You sweat so much in the warehouse, you build up sugar behind your ears from all the sugar in the air. Legs and arms are sticky every day. Every day. You’re still not at the core workers of the company. Every warehouse worker would kill to be a trucker
Not all trucks have AC. I’m a spotter for a train yard. The only thing i do is move trailers park them between trailers parallel on the train track. 12 hours a day. The trucks have no AC. it’s actually cooler outside while it’s 96 in texas mid day than it is inside the truck with the little fan and windows open.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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'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 worked for Sysco for about eight months. The work is backbreaking, and the equipment is garbage. I quit after six breakdowns in two weeks, and you're still obligated to make deliveries after equipment failure. However, up north in the DMV area, you are easily making six figures before taxes, 2300-2500 weekly, but you're working 70 hours a week. No life.
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
Im a daily working for a small steel shop, 24' flatbed with weird awkward loads that don't always fit together, I really want to run USPS B class I will have 2 years in August, it's good to hear that it's a good move
Going to get my CDL A in August, but only going to do trucking until I can get thru coding school. I can see how difficult the profession can be, and I honestly respect the people who plan to do, have done, and are still doing this job. Do what you have to, and keep striving for better.
@Kaio-Ken I would suggest being open to anything that can make your future easier. Tech is a growing industry and will probably be 2nd to the medical field, and quite honestly the high pay is one of the factors for me going into coding. My CDL, to me, is just a temporary situation, but having the CDL will allow me more options. Look into tech, there isn't anything wrong with having more options.
Not a bad idea. A CDL is always a good thing to have in your back pocket because it's almost always a guarenteed 25 dollar an hour job no matter where you go if you're local. And if worst come's to worse and you end up homeless or something it's a guarenteed home if you go OTR.
If u have no kids or family to provide for and your life is pretty subtle on finances. I say do it, and get to see america and make the most of it. Things will eventually turn around and you can go from company driver, to owner operator to possibly having your own Mc. Eventually you wanna atleast own your truck tho
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.
For me to get experience, I accepted a job as food delivery driver. I was doing deliveries to markets, mini markets, gas stations, little Mexican markets, etc. My trainer had no liftgate, no electric pallet jack. I had to break the pallets on the tail of trailer and get boxes or pieces into the stores in hot or rainy days. On top of that my truck had no A/C., It was really hard but in a sense it helped me to appreciate the better job I have now. I quit after 9 months and all because they were sending me to Palms Springs, CA. area with no A/ C on my truck on summer time, where temperatures hit average 112 degrees.
I did food service when I started my cdl career in 2008 at the age of 21. made around $55 k the first year and made up to $75 k the 4th year and worked only 4 days a week. Yes it is very labor intensive and when going up and down that ramp with about 350lbs on a dolly it's a lot of ware and tear on your lower joints but I loved it. It was a good start for my trucking career.
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!
I drove 48 states over the road for a year and decided to try settling down. So I got a local job for Budweiser and quit after two months of working there. The constant bending up and down, and risky parking/roads weren't cutting it for me, so I prefer over the road all dayyyy.
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. 😂
I have been food service about a year. When you first start it's rough. As time passes, you pick up tips from the veteran drivers. You also get more familiar with people and places you deliver to.Product recognition plays a big part. It's is more mental then physical.
It's like when you do intermodal. At first it's hell. You have to learn all the tricks which do change at the different yards as far as getting in and getting out. As far as knowing how to get a trailer list, Knowing the yards in regards to where the trailers are parked, And just so much different information. Knowing how to get to these various places. Knowing you're going to be facing the usual problems of wiring issues, a lot of tire issues, landing gear issues, boxes not sitting right, light issues, pigtail issues, and holes in floor, roof, sides. After awhile though you get better, and faster
It definitely ain’t for everybody. I worked for US Foods in NC , but our pay rate was minimum $300/day plus incentives. Only reason I quit was for school, and because I’m older lol. I understand him quitting…
I used to manually unload box by box in a Family Dollar account out of Rome,NY for JB Hunt. They paid me 150 dollars for emptying out the trailer, 25 dollars per stop, and 58 cents per mile. Wasn’t worth the money for the labor. The problem with Sysco and accounts where you do manual unloading is they don’t pay enough, local or home weekly, and in order to make a sustainable living doing that for your family, you have no work/ home life balance. It’s a shame, but as long as guys keep taking those jobs, the companies will continue to exploit them. Guys need to rally together or unionize. That’s what saved me from quitting trucking. I kept moving around until I landed a union job. Now I work Monday to Friday, 11 hours a day on average but I’m home every night and off two days. And I don’t manually unload my truck box by box.
I worked out of Houston local. Hauling sand. 2 to 3 loads a day,home every holiday, paid by the load which avg about $100 to $125 Depending on the weight Load and off load. Job paid over 70k a yr. Not all local work is slave work. I know another driver who works local loading and Delivers local tankers. 1 load a day, 12hrs a day , by the hr at $25. Easy work. Clock in, drive, sit alot all day at customers. Easy money. You just have to find the right local job that don't make u work to death. We all know USPS ALWAYS on the run. That's hard local work with no AC
I run local for a concrete company in Houston myself hauling cement (dry bulk) from the port of Houston to Baytown. I average about 3-4 loads a day working from anywhere from 12-13 hrs a day M-Sat. I'm almost a year in now and I love the job. Very easy job and laid back, exactly the job I needed after leaving from 18 yrs of doing asphalt work (laborer,traffic control & equipment operator) 🥵🥵 Almost a year in and I cleared about 85k already. You gotta do what works for you!
I been in food service for a few months and I think it’s great if you’re not scared of the work, I’m 24 and making the most money I have in trucking, 8 hour days are my average and I gross 1800 a week at Gordon
Foodservice delivery is one of the hardest trucking jobs there is. I myself used to do it early in my career. It was the first local job I tried to get after starting out in OTR. All I knew at the time was backing up to a warehouse dock, and moaning about the occasional hand unload. Doing foodservice was a complete change from OTR. Of course, now every delivery is a hand unload. In fact, you spend more time on the ground than in the cab. What really stressed me was the fight for space to unload. Most of the mom and pop places were not set up for a 48 ft. trailer. Access into the store was often a 100 ft schlepp over curbs and thru tight passage ways. I could fill pages about the madness that was my job. After two weeks I gave notice and did a few more years of OTR. My most recent experience is still local logistics, but it is overnight - which is really the only time this type of work should be done - and the circumstances and nature of the work is something I can easily handle. A man has to know his limits (quoth Dirty Harry). It's better to know them, than to find out the hardest way.
Worked for Mclane for about 4 years and never had multiple days off. Always overnight working sun, mon, tues, and Friday. Thursday was my only full day off. Left there in September and now at QCD delivering to Starbucks and dispatch times between 2pm-5pm and work 4 days on and have 3 days off. So much better and make more money too. Just gotta find the right Foodservice job that works for you!
I’m only 6 months in with my CDL. I’ve done OTR Port Containers to Amazon Relay. I’ve also done local dry van routes and one thing I learned in my short time in this industry is that it’s all about networking and connections. You aren’t going to come into this industry as a new driver making 80k+ a year unless you have the funds to become a owner op and are willing to bust your ass in your truck. I’m currently in the process of working for Pepsi in NJ and they’re starting at $31/hour Local, being that I’m considered a new driver and I’m only 23 I can’t complain with that. My advice from the OGs is work for a big industry, get your experience up, learn the business, then decide how you want your career to play out, wether it’s becoming a owner op, dispatch, broker ect. It’s hard to get into certain companies as a newbie but companies like US Foods or swift would hire you quick. A lot of work for shitty pay but if you don’t have the knowledge you can’t demand your way to the top. Knowledge & experience will always outweigh the pay. Once you have that then you can move up the food chain.
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.
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 work for Sysco, it’s my first trucking job. It’s not easy but it’s good. You make good money, depending on your union you get good benefits. It’s all about mindfulness and the more you do it the better you get at it. Understanding how to read the load map helps a lot. It’s my first cdl job and I’m happy I’m in it.
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!
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!
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...
When I was in school, our training route was in an industrial area. It was all kinds of now hiring signs for 100k plus. No experience. Our trainer said “it sounds good until you start working and have no life” He told us about going in and out the trailers. Going from hot to cold over and over getting you sick. He also said it’s a “young man’s job” And if you start at 20, your body will be broke down by 40
@@scottlucy1887 Dude, I was an OTR driver for 2 years. After my first year I started having back pains. I'm 23, I should not be having back pains, but the doctor says it's because I'm a trucker and I'm sitting for 10 or more hours a day. Sure I could try and do some basic exercises and I did, but it did very little to help. Trucking kills you too, just in a less obvious manner.
I delivered milk with a local dairy. 28 stops a day. I lost 60 pounds doing it. 14 to 16 hours a day. Plus 45 minutes drive home each way. It sucked badly. No life
Companies like Cisco has thousands and thousands of applicants who are willing to break their backs any day, to choose from. However the worker himself or herself only has one spine that they cannot afford to break. So yeah, I do not look down on this guy for quitting that thankless and spine breaking job. Heck! I would have quitted too
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
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.
Certain jobs yes, tanker, belly dumps, bulk, ABF, shuttle runs. No waiting at docks for hours, if you cross scales it’s the same ones daily less hassle from local DOT they usually pay more attention to the out of town OTR trucks at least they do in New Mexico. Don’t think you could pay me enough to sleep in a truck again, I like being home too much enjoying the life my money is buying for my family and myself.
And I work 10-11 hours a day and off 3 days a week it’s rough being home that much and eating home cooked meals and spending time with the wife and kids, but someone’s got to do it. I figured after 3 million + miles I’ve paid my dues so real trucking or not I’ll keep my in town gig as for the “real” trucking, been there done that.
Oh yeah, get paid for every minute being in the truck, not like unpaid 10 and 34 hour resets at customer docks, rest areas, or truck stops…
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...
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.
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
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.
A stoic mindset is priceless
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.
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
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 helped out Sysco a few times running some routes. That shit is hardcore. Those guys deserve the big bucks.
Real Talk
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!
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 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...
That must have been soda pressing
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
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!!
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You are a good man. I am from a blue collar background and I have nothing but respect for men like you sir.
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
“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
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
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True. Sumtimes u just can't do it n it's ok to admit it
It's not even truck driving sysco aint shit
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.
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
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.
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.
😂 15k would be easy I used to do 32k on a particular night and I would finish in about 10-11 hours. Easy sailing it was floor stacked and running up and down the ramp.
Its not a life! Your state of mind is exhausted, not relaxed at all. This is back breaking, you don't live for anybody but really the company.I find the people that work these jobs aren't very family or even really home period.
@davidrynberk1533 says by the guy who never work at sysco 😂😂😂😂. Just go enjoy flipping burgers at McDonald's and enjoy your $15/hr Goodluck.
@@bisdaktruckerusa697 What is your point? did you read what I said? I work as a trucker, and one of the problems in trucking is guys like you..I am sure you are a good worker, and you let job become you,but its not a balanced normal life.Do you know trucking has one of the highest suicide rates as a profession.Honestly most guys can't even talk and have a 5 minute conversation,I'll include the packers and shipper/receivers all just trying to make it through the day.Half the truckers are divorced,medicated or on pot/vaping constantly its gross.Maybe before speaking ,consider listening,take care.
I’ve been at Sysco for nearly four years, there are no 16 hour days. Your DOT clock is 14 hours long anyway. Not that there haven’t been times when I’ve worked the whole 14 hours - and then some. I’m not defending Sysco, it’s a sh!t company and a sh!t job in so many ways, but a more average day for me is around 10 hours.
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
@@jonf2009it’s true, nearly every warehouse eff up filters down to the driver and affects his own performance measure. Middle management is low quality and inattentive unless it’s to cover their butts about something. And top management is all lip service about appreciation for all the hard work.
I make 26 an hour and sit in my truck most days. I drive a dump truck. It’s Really chill z
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.
Who told him to have 7 kids, people like that make it sound like they had no choice and it was thrust upon them. You created this situation, deal with it.
@fluffycat6489yay u a fluffy cat. Im a fluffy piggyXD
I run intermodal regional all night and love it. I couldn't work local. Too much work, and I'm too old.
Exactly, you're so RIGHT about that
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
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 have been driving since 2012. I started out OTR, and switched to local in 2014. I am in the Columbus Ohio area where there are thousands of jobs for drivers on any given day. I have literally quit a job and had another before I walked the 100 yards to my car. But I have a clean record and work hard to keep my CDL clean. In my experience the smaller the company the better you are treated. Food service is a young mans job for sure. Back breaking work period. Local driving in my opinion is better than OTR for the lifestyle I want. Right now I work LTL and do about 6 to 10 stops in a day. Tight in and out a lot of times . But I don't touch the freight anymore. My last job was hospital delivery which was crazy stuff. Taking a tractor trailer into hospital docks that are designed for box trucks. Then finger printing the freight all over the hospital. I did it for 6 years. I live in the country and drive a hour to work everyday do 10 to 14 and drive a hour home. Turning 62 in a couple months and switching to farm work. Hauling milk and grain 15 minutes from the house. Number one thing is keep your CDL clean and know the laws that are there to protect you and don't be afraid to use them. Keep your personal debt load down so changing jobs doesn't put you in a bind. Anything that is food service, beverage, hospital, etc. is going to be physical plus require good driving skills. A steering wheel holder won't make it. They will tear stuff up. Better to refuse a stop on a safety call and have to get another job than have a accident and put a mark on your CDL. You have to be easy to insure to have a lot of options. OTR or Local ? That depends on the individual and what they are capable of in driving skills and physically. " A man has to know his limitations" .
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.
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
@@Thecaptain1898 fire wisdom!
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.
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.
Id make that 200 cost them more than they ever imagined 😂
@@WhatsthedealsquirterDamn right!!🎯💯👊
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'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 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. 🤣🤣
I got fired at US Foods as a CDL driver because i asked for a small bag of sunchips because i was hungry and the customer complained and i got fired
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
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. 🤨
"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!
There is a nice balance. Obviously Cisco doesn’t have that balance.
It’s called being desperate to provide for your family. I’m in that boat now. I just accepted a job offer from Sysco
@@spookish4167…Save your money and look into dump trucks…O/O.
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.
May I ask what company you work for & what is the pay per hour? Thinking of applying for a petroleum hauling job.
@@Vagabond_Etranger
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.
@@Vagabond_Etranger I worked for a small oil company called Boncosky Oil company. They have mergerd with a bigger company since I left. I serviced big excavating companies and company's with ground tanks for their fleet. Mostly diesel fuel and the pay was salary plus commission on the gallons dropped. Average driver was around 74k a year and seniority drivers with big drop routes 110k a year. I'm not sure what's the pay as of now. Like I said I left that place and went to a road striping company. Been here 19 years or so. Time goes fast. Worked my way up to a Forman. Hourly wage here is $43.10 to $45.10. That's in the Chicago area. You can find a lot of jobs driving and yes it helps knowing people in the field but it's possible. My brother just started 3 weeks ago hauling material for a company that specializes in bridges. Starting pay for him was $51.20 hour. Keep looking. Pray to God. Have faith and be good to people. The big guy usually comes around. Good luck.
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 worked at Sysco Atlanta, 2yrs. 22 stops 1400 cases is a normal work day. 15 stops on a light day.
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.
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
@@afridgetoofar1818😂😂😂😂
@@afridgetoofar1818omg i died
@@afridgetoofar1818HAHAHAHA
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
@@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.
@@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
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 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 isn’t a Trucking job. It’s a lumping service with some Truck driving. It’s a young man’s gig.
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
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 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.
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.
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!!!
how can you do 300-600 miles daily when its only 2-3 stops wheres all the mileage coming from
@@mike1691 the stops are most likely great distances apart sir
@@mike1691 easy when the stops are far enough apart.
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.
@@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.
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
"Trucking" wasn't the problem. Unloading a trailer of crap by yourself every day was the problem. I used to work security at a fast food warehouse and the truckers worked themselves to the bone. They would be gone for 1-4 days at a time and they had to unload an entire 53' trailer by hand. Not only that but they had to wheel it into the fast food locations AND put it away on the shelves, freezer, etc. The warehouse workers were slackers that usually didn't finish loading the trailers, so the drivers had to go in the warehouse and finish loading their trailer as well. After watching them come back looking like they were about to die, I decided that the only trucking jobs worth considering are 100% no-touch.
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.
@@Kenwood709 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.
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.
Invest your money into a business
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 🤦🏾♂️
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.
God bless sir
It’s a lot easier than being a loader for Pepsi. I worked in the Austin warehouse. No AC. Making and loading pallets, dripping sweat for 12-14 hours a day. Truckers make 28 an hour. We made 20 an hour. Truckers get to drive around in AC. Loaders get to feel AC on their lunch break. You sweat so much in the warehouse, you build up sugar behind your ears from all the sugar in the air. Legs and arms are sticky every day. Every day. You’re still not at the core workers of the company. Every warehouse worker would kill to be a trucker
Not all trucks have AC. I’m a spotter for a train yard. The only thing i do is move trailers park them between trailers parallel on the train track. 12 hours a day. The trucks have no AC. it’s actually cooler outside while it’s 96 in texas mid day than it is inside the truck with the little fan and windows open.
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.
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”
Truckers are so under appreciated
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.
I deliver beer for 10 years it's a young man's job del food it's a real hard job
beer is harder
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'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.
Interesting. XPO of which state? I'm in TN, been a forklift op for 5 years, want to get a CDL to do Linehaul.
“Home daily” bro you arent home youre sleeping shitting and eating
I worked for Sysco for about eight months. The work is backbreaking, and the equipment is garbage. I quit after six breakdowns in two weeks, and you're still obligated to make deliveries after equipment failure. However, up north in the DMV area, you are easily making six figures before taxes, 2300-2500 weekly, but you're working 70 hours a week. No life.
Sheesh I live in the dmv area I’m looking for a driving job
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
Im a daily working for a small steel shop, 24' flatbed with weird awkward loads that don't always fit together, I really want to run USPS B class
I will have 2 years in August, it's good to hear that it's a good move
Going to get my CDL A in August, but only going to do trucking until I can get thru coding school. I can see how difficult the profession can be, and I honestly respect the people who plan to do, have done, and are still doing this job. Do what you have to, and keep striving for better.
i left entry level finance for trucking currently in school and wondering if I should look into tech as a backup
@Kaio-Ken I would suggest being open to anything that can make your future easier. Tech is a growing industry and will probably be 2nd to the medical field, and quite honestly the high pay is one of the factors for me going into coding. My CDL, to me, is just a temporary situation, but having the CDL will allow me more options. Look into tech, there isn't anything wrong with having more options.
@@BoredAndBrowsing im curious about tech can you recommend a school and what i should study in that school
Not a bad idea. A CDL is always a good thing to have in your back pocket because it's almost always a guarenteed 25 dollar an hour job no matter where you go if you're local. And if worst come's to worse and you end up homeless or something it's a guarenteed home if you go OTR.
If u have no kids or family to provide for and your life is pretty subtle on finances. I say do it, and get to see america and make the most of it. Things will eventually turn around and you can go from company driver, to owner operator to possibly having your own Mc. Eventually you wanna atleast own your truck tho
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.
For me to get experience, I accepted a job as food delivery driver. I was doing deliveries to markets, mini markets, gas stations, little Mexican markets, etc. My trainer had no liftgate, no electric pallet jack. I had to break the pallets on the tail of trailer and get boxes or pieces into the stores in hot or rainy days. On top of that my truck had no A/C., It was really hard but in a sense it helped me to appreciate the better job I have now. I quit after 9 months and all because they were sending me to Palms Springs, CA. area with no A/ C on my truck on summer time, where temperatures hit average 112 degrees.
fuck that noise...
I did food service when I started my cdl career in 2008 at the age of 21. made around $55 k the first year and made up to $75 k the 4th year and worked only 4 days a week. Yes it is very labor intensive and when going up and down that ramp with about 350lbs on a dolly it's a lot of ware and tear on your lower joints but I loved it. It was a good start for my trucking career.
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 drove 48 states over the road for a year and decided to try settling down. So I got a local job for Budweiser and quit after two months of working there. The constant bending up and down, and risky parking/roads weren't cutting it for me, so I prefer over the road all dayyyy.
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...
I have been food service about a year. When you first start it's rough. As time passes, you pick up tips from the veteran drivers. You also get more familiar with people and places you deliver to.Product recognition plays a big part. It's is more mental then physical.
More mental than physical 😂😂😂😂 you got jokes buddy 😂😂😂 food service is physical my man forget the mental part 😂
It's like when you do intermodal. At first it's hell. You have to learn all the tricks which do change at the different yards as far as getting in and getting out. As far as knowing how to get a trailer list, Knowing the yards in regards to where the trailers are parked, And just so much different information. Knowing how to get to these various places. Knowing you're going to be facing the usual problems of wiring issues, a lot of tire issues, landing gear issues, boxes not sitting right, light issues, pigtail issues, and holes in floor, roof, sides. After awhile though you get better, and faster
@@nicogonzales7955 😂😂😂
@@NolocoLawrence 😂😂😂 the perfect movie
It's really not that hard.
It definitely ain’t for everybody. I worked for US Foods in NC , but our pay rate was minimum $300/day plus incentives. Only reason I quit was for school, and because I’m older lol. I understand him quitting…
I used to manually unload box by box in a Family Dollar account out of Rome,NY for JB Hunt. They paid me 150 dollars for emptying out the trailer, 25 dollars per stop, and 58 cents per mile. Wasn’t worth the money for the labor. The problem with Sysco and accounts where you do manual unloading is they don’t pay enough, local or home weekly, and in order to make a sustainable living doing that for your family, you have no work/ home life balance. It’s a shame, but as long as guys keep taking those jobs, the companies will continue to exploit them. Guys need to rally together or unionize. That’s what saved me from quitting trucking. I kept moving around until I landed a union job. Now I work Monday to Friday, 11 hours a day on average but I’m home every night and off two days. And I don’t manually unload my truck box by box.
I worked out of Houston local. Hauling sand. 2 to 3 loads a day,home every holiday, paid by the load which avg about $100 to $125 Depending on the weight
Load and off load. Job paid over 70k a yr. Not all local work is slave work.
I know another driver who works local loading and Delivers local tankers. 1 load a day, 12hrs a day , by the hr at $25.
Easy work. Clock in, drive, sit alot all day at customers.
Easy money.
You just have to find the right local job that don't make u work to death.
We all know USPS ALWAYS on the run. That's hard local work with no AC
12 hours a day isnt easy work
Seems like every local driver in Houston love doing local.
@@Lasagnakilla what do you mean man? a OTR driver is gonna driver the same amount. alot of local jobs work 7-5. gotta find the right one.
@@Sipppers lmao you have no idea what your talking about, local drivers usually have to work 12-14 hour days
I run local for a concrete company in Houston myself hauling cement (dry bulk) from the port of Houston to Baytown. I average about 3-4 loads a day working from anywhere from 12-13 hrs a day M-Sat. I'm almost a year in now and I love the job. Very easy job and laid back, exactly the job I needed after leaving from 18 yrs of doing asphalt work (laborer,traffic control & equipment operator) 🥵🥵 Almost a year in and I cleared about 85k already. You gotta do what works for you!
I been in food service for a few months and I think it’s great if you’re not scared of the work, I’m 24 and making the most money I have in trucking, 8 hour days are my average and I gross 1800 a week at Gordon
If you could be done in 8 hours not a bad gig then,good for you man
You're young, it's a young man's game.
I want to drive for Gordon
8 hour day in trucking? 1800 a week? For Gordon? I think your candy coating that turd
24? Lets see if you will say the same at 35
I worked for Sysco for 7 months and it was the hardest job I’ve done. The pay is definitely not worth at all
Foodservice delivery is one of the hardest trucking jobs there is. I myself used to do it early in my career. It was the first local job I tried to get after starting out in OTR. All I knew at the time was backing up to a warehouse dock, and moaning about the occasional hand unload.
Doing foodservice was a complete change from OTR. Of course, now every delivery is a hand unload. In fact, you spend more time on the ground than in the cab.
What really stressed me was the fight for space to unload. Most of the mom and pop places were not set up for a 48 ft. trailer. Access into the store was often a 100 ft schlepp over curbs and thru tight passage ways.
I could fill pages about the madness that was my job. After two weeks I gave notice and did a few more years of OTR. My most recent experience is still local logistics, but it is overnight - which is really the only time this type of work should be done - and the circumstances and nature of the work is something I can easily handle.
A man has to know his limits (quoth Dirty Harry). It's better to know them, than to find out the hardest way.
Worked for Mclane for about 4 years and never had multiple days off. Always overnight working sun, mon, tues, and Friday. Thursday was my only full day off. Left there in September and now at QCD delivering to Starbucks and dispatch times between 2pm-5pm and work 4 days on and have 3 days off. So much better and make more money too. Just gotta find the right Foodservice job that works for you!
are u working at the one in fontana? or California? I interviewed with their boss years ago. I now live near that area inadertently
I’m only 6 months in with my CDL. I’ve done OTR Port Containers to Amazon Relay. I’ve also done local dry van routes and one thing I learned in my short time in this industry is that it’s all about networking and connections. You aren’t going to come into this industry as a new driver making 80k+ a year unless you have the funds to become a owner op and are willing to bust your ass in your truck. I’m currently in the process of working for Pepsi in NJ and they’re starting at $31/hour Local, being that I’m considered a new driver and I’m only 23 I can’t complain with that. My advice from the OGs is work for a big industry, get your experience up, learn the business, then decide how you want your career to play out, wether it’s becoming a owner op, dispatch, broker ect. It’s hard to get into certain companies as a newbie but companies like US Foods or swift would hire you quick. A lot of work for shitty pay but if you don’t have the knowledge you can’t demand your way to the top. Knowledge & experience will always outweigh the pay. Once you have that then you can move up the food chain.
Don’t blame him. That’s a hard job!!!
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.
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.
Sysco pays crap
They offered me $160 a day regardless if I work 4 hours or 14 hours hell nah I won’t do it
That can't be true.
What state I'm union in Chicago we easily make over 100k a year
@@ralphbeesley6794 facts.
This sounds sus as hell
@@Spicyywafflezz yea it's hard to believe Sysco union hubs are hourly if not you get the abc pay miles cases etc.
I work for Sysco, it’s my first trucking job. It’s not easy but it’s good. You make good money, depending on your union you get good benefits. It’s all about mindfulness and the more you do it the better you get at it. Understanding how to read the load map helps a lot. It’s my first cdl job and I’m happy I’m in it.
What state are you in ?
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!
16 stops a day when I was a milkman I did 30 or over back in the 80 s
🤯🤯🤯
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...
When I was in school, our training route was in an industrial area. It was all kinds of now hiring signs for 100k plus. No experience. Our trainer said “it sounds good until you start working and have no life” He told us about going in and out the trailers. Going from hot to cold over and over getting you sick. He also said it’s a “young man’s job” And if you start at 20, your body will be broke down by 40
Facts!!!
"Young man's job"
9/10 times all that means is "you will shave off a decade or two of your life expectancy working here".
And just sitting all day will kill you just as fast but just silent.
@@scottlucy1887 yes it can. But that’s optional, not mandatory.
@@scottlucy1887 Dude, I was an OTR driver for 2 years. After my first year I started having back pains. I'm 23, I should not be having back pains, but the doctor says it's because I'm a trucker and I'm sitting for 10 or more hours a day. Sure I could try and do some basic exercises and I did, but it did very little to help. Trucking kills you too, just in a less obvious manner.
I delivered milk with a local dairy. 28 stops a day. I lost 60 pounds doing it. 14 to 16 hours a day. Plus 45 minutes drive home each way. It sucked badly. No life
How many hours a week?
Nobody in their right would work for Sisco driving a truck anyway
Crossing the street like that WOW..people already don’t want to stop for us or let us over. I hope he stay safe out there!!
Companies like Cisco has thousands and thousands of applicants who are willing to break their backs any day, to choose from. However the worker himself or herself only has one spine that they cannot afford to break. So yeah, I do not look down on this guy for quitting that thankless and spine breaking job. Heck! I would have quitted too
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
Dawg you can't complain about seniority benefits after working there for one month😂