What I can say is, well I can drive from Cleveland to Lexington without using the bathroom, I really have to put my mind to it, but it can be done.
In the summer time when it's hot and I have a load of beer to deliver I can pretty much go all day without using the bathroom. Not so much though in the cooler weather.
If I had to rate my current job on a 1-10 scale I would give it a 6.5
I don't know if switching to a food company would be any better, I see other food drivers and frankly I really don't know how they do it, because there trucks look like a bomb has gone off in the trailer most of the time. At least my loads are usually nice and neat.
Here I'll show you what I mean. Everything in a side loader is compartmentalized and doesn't really have any place to go. Plus it really doesn't matter how the
stuff comes in as long as it all comes in.
This is one pallet for a single customer.
However that being said I would like to not have to worry about having 20+ stops to make and at the same time rushing against the clock to try and get it done, not that LTL line haul is a fiddle around and do what you want, because it's my job and your guys jobs are all the same pretty much it's a can do attitude no matter what. We fall behind and were late, oh well it happens. Like today I had 21 stops and 582 cases. Actually money wise I made almost $300 today, now they will take money out for taxes and stuff, but there's pros and cons to both.
My job one pro is that I don't drive anywhere, good weather, bad weather it really doesn't matter because so what if it's white out I have 3 sometimes 4 stops on my Friday that I literally don't have to move the truck for at all. However that being said I get beat up a lot taking the beer and kegs down stair cases and in the winter time I'm out side most of the day in slop and trying to get the kegs down the icey stairs and drag the two wheeler around, in the snow not good. Now that being said I'm in town and actually in an emergency situation what ever it maybe, zombie Apocalypse stuff like that I'm no more then 10 miles from my actual house. I'm 25-30 miles from the terminal, but where my route is I'm only 10 minutes from my house. Like I said the most driving I do all day is from the terminal and back to the terminal. I probably only drive maybe 15 miles on my actual route, because my stops are so close and the stop density is really high.