So today I had my final interview at the beer company and they said they would give me a shot.
The beer company has all kinds of equipment from side loaders, to pup trailers to road trucks.
There fleet is a mixture of manuals and automatics. I think the road trucks are manuals and the newer city trucks that pull the pup trailers or side loaders are automatics which would make sense.
What they have me doing is starting off slow, with another person and gaining experience that way and then eventually working my way up to being on my own. No weigh scales, no log books, off on weekends and major holidays.
This company has it's own shuttle so if I wanted in time I could eventually be a shuttle driver and drive the road trucks to drop lots or to other company warehouses or stay as a route driver, they said there route drivers do just fine and some make around $60,000 a year. I'll stay there as long as I can, and get the most out of it as I can.
I did ask because I was curious and this particular company does not own any B trucks. I think they had a handful at one point, but they got older and they aged out of the fleet.
Any how this sounds like a fine place to work, so I took my drug test and the HR man said call us in a couple days and will get a start date figured out.
I have a new pair of steel toe boots ready to go, so I'll break those in when it's time to start. It takes the drug testing lab 2-3 business days to get it all sorted out anyhow, how probably Monday or Tuesday I'll call HR and will get a start date going.
I don't mind the hard work or anything else a little apprehensive about driving mainly because road experience in school I though could have been better, I scored an 81 in road when I was in school and a 90 in yard. I don't know though it's tit or tat because my road test for the actual CDL test was just fine and that was a bigger trailer combination then what beer trucks pull so it's 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other.
However I hope that in time, I can do it all for them so if they need to send me to Quicken Loans Arena or Ceder Point I can go and make it happen there no problem. Or if they need me to take a road truck down to the warehouse in Columbus instead of running a side loader that would be fine too. The beer company is like a cousin to the food companies. There are differences like your route in a beer truck does not involve as much driving the stops are a lot more dense. You might have 4 stops on the same block.
I told the man, I'll show up to work on time, do the best I can and just work really hard.
The man said "Well I have no problem hiring you, I like your work ethic I like what you have to say."
So pretty soon I'll get it all going and will see what happens.
The beer company has all kinds of equipment from side loaders, to pup trailers to road trucks.
There fleet is a mixture of manuals and automatics. I think the road trucks are manuals and the newer city trucks that pull the pup trailers or side loaders are automatics which would make sense.
What they have me doing is starting off slow, with another person and gaining experience that way and then eventually working my way up to being on my own. No weigh scales, no log books, off on weekends and major holidays.
This company has it's own shuttle so if I wanted in time I could eventually be a shuttle driver and drive the road trucks to drop lots or to other company warehouses or stay as a route driver, they said there route drivers do just fine and some make around $60,000 a year. I'll stay there as long as I can, and get the most out of it as I can.
I did ask because I was curious and this particular company does not own any B trucks. I think they had a handful at one point, but they got older and they aged out of the fleet.
Any how this sounds like a fine place to work, so I took my drug test and the HR man said call us in a couple days and will get a start date figured out.
I have a new pair of steel toe boots ready to go, so I'll break those in when it's time to start. It takes the drug testing lab 2-3 business days to get it all sorted out anyhow, how probably Monday or Tuesday I'll call HR and will get a start date going.
I don't mind the hard work or anything else a little apprehensive about driving mainly because road experience in school I though could have been better, I scored an 81 in road when I was in school and a 90 in yard. I don't know though it's tit or tat because my road test for the actual CDL test was just fine and that was a bigger trailer combination then what beer trucks pull so it's 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other.
However I hope that in time, I can do it all for them so if they need to send me to Quicken Loans Arena or Ceder Point I can go and make it happen there no problem. Or if they need me to take a road truck down to the warehouse in Columbus instead of running a side loader that would be fine too. The beer company is like a cousin to the food companies. There are differences like your route in a beer truck does not involve as much driving the stops are a lot more dense. You might have 4 stops on the same block.
I told the man, I'll show up to work on time, do the best I can and just work really hard.
The man said "Well I have no problem hiring you, I like your work ethic I like what you have to say."
So pretty soon I'll get it all going and will see what happens.