Moneyman01
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I've slipped down the ramp on my back doing food service. That hurts. But when you fall off the top of a car hauler your falling a little further then falling off a side loader which I've done to
fwiw, both times i screwed my knee up, i was only exiting the cab. sometimes that 3 point hold doesnt mean anything, if your yard is a skating rink.
i have slipped on ramps though, with product on a wheeler, and i would much rather load cars. when you are climbing around that carhauler, you dont have 400lbs of mozzarella trying to kill you, you just have your own weight.
Thats the reason we don't have lift gates, to many dummies dropped the electric jack off and broke it, now the old man, ( me), gets to be broken because of others not paying attention! I still wouldn't trade it, I'm passing on shuttle, my customers get me out of bed, I make a difference for them and that drives me.Or 300 pounds of beer getting ready to drag you down a customers rickety stair case. My route that I have, has a lot of stairs and some of those kitchens and stair cases have slick floors and getting drug down the stairs and sending 2 1/2 barrels down the steps would not be good. Me climbing up a trailer is not as big of a deal versus like you said 400 lbs of mozzarella dragging you off the side of a trailer.
Saw it a food service driver here in Cleveland when I worked at the pizza shop drive a power jack and a pallet full of pizza dough right off the back of the lift gate.
Thats the reason we don't have lift gates, to many dummies dropped the electric jack off and broke it, now the old man, ( me), gets to be broken because of others not paying attention! I still wouldn't trade it, I'm passing on shuttle, my customers get me out of bed, I make a difference for them and that drives me.
Mike if your going to stay in the customer service end of trucking, you need to get into foodservice, I have formed relationships years ago that I am still in contact with, the friends I have made in this business are priceless. If I were homeless and out of money, I would eat, and eat well I promise you that.It would be nice if I was able to say that I make a difference for my customers, but because we are not anyone's main distributor or choice vendor, I feel as though I am nothing more then just another annoyance for them to deal with.
Not all that often do I hear oh thank goodness Coors is here. It's more of "Hey some beer guy is here and he needs a check." Then someone gives a long sigh and drudges off to pay my invoice.
The big differences in our business is I'm bringing them a small not insignificant but big picture wise I am bringing them a very small portion of the entire show I am not the most important person in there life far from it. Where as like GT brings them there whole business he's got all the food, all the janitorial supplies, all the napkins and dry goods everything they need to operate he has. Me I just have the drinks and the way alcohol is divided by counties and licenses there are several other companies servicing the same account doing exactly what I do. I'm basically just an annoyance to the customer a necessary evil I guess.
Mike did you ever hear from Jack Cooper?
Mike if your going to stay in the customer service end of trucking, you need to get into foodservice, I have formed relationships years ago that I am still in contact with, the friends I have made in this business are priceless. If I were homeless and out of money, I would eat, and eat well I promise you that.
We work hard Double R will tell you that, but the rewards can be and usually are many!
You know after a while I think you're body get's tired of the work and then you're mind get's tired of the BS. If I had the energy I would write a long diatribe about how I got screwed over today on an otherwise decent day, but I'll save it.Might make some good friends but your body will hurt after awhile. Just ask everyone that's done it awhile. Ask GT how he feels and so on. It's tough on the body. It really is
Might make some good friends but your body will hurt after awhile. Just ask everyone that's done it awhile. Ask GT how he feels and so on. It's tough on the body. It really is
10-15 year plan So far I've got 8-9 months of that accomplished ha-ha!I'm trying to figure out how I can retire.....