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Originally Posted by YoungZ.W.
Ok foodservice delivery people I have a couple ?'s for ya:
-What is your typical day (or night) like?
-How physically demanding is the job?
-What is the best and worst part of the job?
I work for Sysco. My typical day is starting at 5:30 am. Trailers are shuttled from main terminal to my location. Hook up to trailer, do pre trip. Load my ramp and hand cart, (this can be hard because sometimes there's no room for it since the trailer is stuffed to the back). Drive to customers location and offload freight. The trick here is that all stops are numbered, and they have a certain amount of pieces via cooler, dry, and frozen counts. One all pieces are in the customers building. The customer should be checking them in as you deliver, and you should be ok to get signed invoice and get out.
Now the reasons that this typical delivery would be challenging.
#1. The cases you need, are always on the bottom, or somewhere "else" in the trailer. In other words, this is no smooth process. At least ten times a day, I'm completely tearing down a pallet to get to that one case of beef that weighs 80 pounds at the bottom of the pallet in the back.
#2. Customers location is f#%ing horrible to get to/deliver. I have about two customers every day that are a nightmare to deliver to. One that comes to mind is a Burger King on a very busy street that has a very small parking lot. Then the kitchen is a mess with grease on the floor, and boxes/trash everywhere.
#3. Customers are a$#holes. Some customers are very hard to deal with. That's life in general I suppose.
#4. Reefer breaks down. Yeah that really sucks, especially in the summer. Happens more that you would think. It's funny how Sysco is a multi billion dollar company recording gargantuan profits every year, and they have some units that are older than me it seems.
#5. 15 stops, 25,000 pounds. Yep, that's all you. And they want it all off fast! My favorite are Chinese restaurants with nothing but tons of flour, sugar, lard, rice, and chicken! And those kitchens are usually the most disgusting.
#6. Advil addiction. I eat Advil like it's candy. I need something stronger. My back, hips, feet, knees, elbows, and fingers feel like they're on fire.
#7 Kiss all your fun weekend activities goodbye. You like being home right? Well you'll love NOT being able to play with your kids, going fishing, camping. hiking, hunting, horseshoes, working on the house, getting it on with the ol lady, etc. Because you'll be living on the couch drinking large quantities of alcohol, (I call it liquid pain killers), to deal with the pain.