By the looks of these paystubs I think we can all conclude that foodservice drivers out here are getting PAID.

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Appalachias-Hero@reddit

Can confirm. But will my back be the same in 10 years. Probably not. The only thing that somewhat helps is our discounts with chiropractors. I will say, the money is great, but man oh man does taking a dolly up or down steps, get tiring.

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East_Indication_7816@reddit

I thought i was strong and fit as I run marathons and lift weights at the gym. 2 months later it injured my back and been waking up with a tight back every day. Once this happens either you permanently injure your back or you will get fired.

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Simple-Delivery6320@reddit

That back pain seriously is a one and done kind of thing.

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Timmy98789@reddit

Chiropractor? Hard pass

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skatez456@reddit

I went to a chiropractor just because and it was great, felt amazing after..

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expendable117@reddit

Dude just crack your back twisting in your truck seat. Waste of money amd cracks the lower back portion where its hard to Crack otherwise. Coke guy here.

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Appalachias-Hero@reddit

Wait till they get your neck and thighs. Holy hell, if my chiropractor wasn’t a dude, I would have nutted.

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Agamemnon323@reddit

Hospitals have an injury category for chiropractor induced neck injuries.

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Appalachias-Hero@reddit

They also have a category for when hospital devices and systems fail and cause injury. Also a category for medication errors (administering the wrong drug/dosage)

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After-Rain-2643@reddit

EXACTLY. Reddit acting like 1 out of every 2 patients that visit a chiropractor suffer a catastrophic injury 😂

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Timmy98789@reddit

Quack ass chiropractors, but it's your life.

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skatez456@reddit

Nah they do more than just the back, a bunch of shit I can’t do on my own… totally worth the $55 on Groupon lol

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Riiakess@reddit

Is Groupon still around?! I haven't used those in years, and never thought they'd still be kicking. Lol

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Appalachias-Hero@reddit

I mean to each their own. But a session once a month on a Saturday, I can tell you I have no discomfort at 29. I’ve been in the food/beverage industry for about 7 years now. Started off with warehouse work, went to beer delivery for 2 years, and have been doing food service for a year and a half now.

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Timmy98789@reddit

You shouldn't have discomfort at 29, young buck!

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Unusual-Associate174@reddit

If you spent 7 years in food service you'd know thats simply untrue

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Appalachias-Hero@reddit

I wish that were the case, but I’ve definitely had my fair shares of not lifting with my knees. 3 years in a Coca-Cola warehouse humbled me at a young age.

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Timmy98789@reddit

I implore you research the history of chiropractors and injuries from their quack science.

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Appalachias-Hero@reddit

My researched has concluded that there is 1 serious adverse event per 2 million manipulations. There have been more cases of wrongly administered drugs than people who have had serious injuries from chiropractors.

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Timmy98789@reddit

Keep digging and reading up on the iffy pseudoscience. It's amazing what basic stretching, walking, body weight exercises, good sleep, and proper hydration do for you.

Do what you want, but I'm not a fan to give quacks money when I can just take care of myself.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18280103/

https://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(07)00783-X/fulltext

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After-Rain-2643@reddit

😂

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Prestigious_Cup_5265@reddit

Glorified selector. No thanks.

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truckeredditor@reddit

Food service is definitely a young man's game. Get your bag while you can.

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daemonescanem@reddit

Every driver should get an inversion table.

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FlatbedtruckingCA@reddit

This is on my to do list..

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daemonescanem@reddit

Buy a good one, Ive had same one for last 13 years, only now starting to show some wear & tear.

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audioslave1991@reddit

Link to your inversion table??

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daemonescanem@reddit

https://a.co/d/08im5HKL

Model closest to mine.

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droptozro@reddit

I'm 40 and still doing okay with convenience food store delivery(RTs) and have to handle all the paper product boxes topped. If I ever want to duck out though, it's good to know that other food service jobs will be there paying the same or more. I'm mainly golden-handcuffed cause I live 5 minutes from my DC and I can get up at the very last minute to grab my truck, my load and leave---and then be home by usually 2pm most days.

Either way, lift properly and eat properly. I used to load trailers in the DC. It took me til my mid-thirties to find out that it was actually modern foods(including those labeled "healthy" like veggies at times) were causing joint and back pains. I mostly eat meat now and rarely have back pains strains after 20 years of DC loading or unloading(now) type work.

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Dry_Source666@reddit

Got to get in an exercise somehow

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k1lok@reddit

This is the current meta. I'm on the Lidl dedicated account through Schneider. Apparently the company's highest paid company driver is on our account lol. Schneider usually doesn't pay newbies well but I'm making six figures on a bad week. Only came in with three months flatbed OTR experience and they've been treating me well. The job isn't even that bad either, it's mostly load/unload with an EPJ and watch your 14 hour clock.

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

Dedicated shine user is current meta or foodservice?

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k1lok@reddit

I'm sorry?

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

What is current meta

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k1lok@reddit

Dedicated food service work? It's the highest paying area of work at my mega carrier. Most food service drivers have to deal with manual jacks or something and I'm sure that's where the horror stories are. Not me, lucky me. But anyways, this is the meta. Maybe the best way to do trucking, in my opinion.

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hearfornews317@reddit

After my training is done ill be making 1000+ a week delivering chips

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

That’s good money yak

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mariamad89@reddit

Team driving, you can make around $150k+ no touch freight . Don’t wear down your body. You only get one.

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valiant607@reddit

100% can confirm… high 80’s my first year and been over 100k every year since. (A little over 140k last year)
And if I ever feel overworked, I just let dispatch know and they’ll either give me easier/lighter runs or ask if I want to do a no touch run… no complaints 👍🏼

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Mike18Wheels@reddit

when your the actual tool that delivers the goods, like all tools, you will ware out, break down. Tip of my hat to all food service drivers. I delivered LTL freight for 32 years. Lots of hand unloading, pulling/pushing pallet jacks, climbing up and down trailer, no docks, job sites, etc etc. Body took a beating, surgeries included: carpel tunnel, both wrist, different years. Torn triceps on job, dislocated toe, and I’m on my 3 torn rotator cuff, will get that shoulder replaced in December, can’t be fixed. Last 8 years, only doing Line haul. Always loved my job, still do, but I’m sure I’m an extreme example of a body falling apart. I always said this is a job you must want to do, love to do, because if you don’t, will……..it can really be tough on you, your head and any relationship. Good luck everyone.

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Read-It_2525@reddit

A lot of them are teamsters. As a delivery driver I think those guys are extremely skilled. You have to fit 53 footers in so.w difficult places and unload the truck.

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NorthP503@reddit

Yeah the pay is legit, but what isn’t shown enough is our unions. I have $6hr pension and amazing benefits. Birth of a child only costing dudes $85. Can’t get fired unless you do something real bad.

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decaboniized@reddit

Yep. Only way people at my work can get fired is failing a drug test. Stealing product. Fighting. Stealing time. Local 439.

You basically fire yourself at our union.

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droptozro@reddit

Unions make me pissed. Had a person stealing for like a year and because the main witness of thievery was another union member, couldn't do crap to her cause the Union would blackball the witness if she talked on record.

Awesome. Tank the company contracts so you can protect the union? No jobs, no union. Makes sense.

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NorthP503@reddit

Shit even that though everybody gets one. We’ve had 4 guys fired since I’ve been here, and they all come back on arbitration

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decaboniized@reddit

I heard we used to get one with the failed drug test but they've since stopped it. Drivers used to get a DUI and the company would just pull them and put them to yard hostling till they've gotten the DUI off but they've since stopped that now it's just let go. You fail the random or fail the breathalyzer it's bye bye..

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NorthP503@reddit

Our union offers one but they make you go to rehab basically.

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Agamemnon323@reddit

Guy at my last union job was driving b-trains at work drunk. Loader operator caught him, not cops. Was off work for a couple months doing rehab but didn’t get fired.

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NorthP503@reddit

Yeah our contract talks about if you come forward before something happens they can’t fire you and have to send you to rehab, but I know two guys have failed randoms and just were taken off the road until they completed the program

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Frito_Penndejo@reddit

You at ups? NoPo represent!

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darklorddoone@reddit

No a $2 pay raise aient worth breaking my back. Ill stay at amazon making $33/hr

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

Smart choice

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Imjusta_pug@reddit

I mean as we should, I’m 35, been doing this since I was 21 almost 22 and have had to get two torn shoulder surgeries the past 2 years. Luckily I have enough seniority now to work nights, but food drivers deserve every penny and more for that work.

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1point3@reddit

Plus you only work 4 days and get weekends off 😄

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edsavage404@reddit

Yall working 4 days and getting weekends off?

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Original_Sonmoney@reddit

What pay stub are we talking about?

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thebillz1@reddit

Been food service last 4 years. Fell into a set route, takes 9 hrs a day to complete. 350 miles driving, overnight start, and I'm clearing 112k a year. No complaints. None of my stops are that hard. Plus don't generally deal with customers.

Guys getting all busted up at least where I work is because they're going too heavy when they shouldn't. If your running the ramp in the rain with 500 lbs on your handcart that's a recipe for disaster.

Anybody that falls into food service just work on being efficient and the speed comes.

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Soggy-Effort365@reddit

Exactly. I see these dudes at my job stacking a dolly full of 50LB bags of flour and wondering why they get hurt. I rather do an extra trip and move fast then a heavy ass load and moving slow

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JOliverScott@reddit

That's a driving job combined with a warehouse job put together. I just climbed out of the cab to take a management job for one and I can sympathize with the heavy lifting involved. I'm currently recruiting more ride-along helpers for delivery assist.

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KalTheo@reddit

Food service was awesome till I nearly broke my neck. Quit the same day.

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Ayyeee_justin@reddit

Full story Details? And what was post recovery like? Glad you’re okay.

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KalTheo@reddit

I was actually fine, but Perfromance Foods out of Rogers MN uses skinny ramps. They do not have proper mounts for these ramps on their trailers because the trailers are leased, and they can't modify them in any way. So...

On a rainy day I put down the ramp in a gravel lot and walked up it just fine, as I'd done hundreds of times prior. First time I came down the ramp with a load of product, the whole thing sank into the wet gravel, and slipped forward, away from the trailer. The "Teeth" holding the ramp onto the truck were less than half a centimeter holding it there (probably like 2mm, but I didn't measure, I just know I was spared horrific injury by a very small amount of steel.) When this happend, I was tossed backwards as the ramp slid away from the trailer and my feet slipped forward. If this had gone deeper into the gravel, where I was on the ramp I would have caused me to fall back and hit my neck on the trailer. Maybe it wasn't as bad as I was picturing, but I'm convinced that if the ramp had come free I'd have landed shoulder or neck on the trailer with 350lbs of product and cart on top of me.

Everyone who trained me had told me of injuries they'd sustained, and I'd been working on rolled ankles for weeks. (Multiple instances of hurting myself or tweaking an already injured ankle.) I'd asked about trailer mounts, I'd asked about just using a tool to put holes in the trailer for safety, and they refused.

The money is insanely good, the exercise is awesome, but the potential to hurt yourself is very high, even in the best conditions. Having spoken to people from US Foods and Sysco at the Mall of America, all food service employees deal with the same issues regarding injuries, with small differences in the cause of such.

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skatez456@reddit

😂😂😂

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Exact_Concern_4795@reddit

Not worth the the dropped Dollie’s of food and heavy ass bags of flour or sugar. That also tear and spill all over the floor leaving trails of pickle juice down store hallways. Not to mention winter time with no de icer or salt at stops yea miss me with that BS.

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PhillyBigSteppa@reddit

Yeah you can make some money in food service. I used to work for Sysco. You gonna make some good money but they’re going to make you work your balls off for every penny.

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

Yeah because of the dumbass times they want you to meet

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trucksarekewl@reddit

Why do foodservice when only driving do trick?

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

Because someone’s gotta do it. This is essential work and shoutout the men out there doing it.

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IWIKNataliePortman@reddit

...and women. Men and women.

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trucksarekewl@reddit

Yea man you're right. Much respect

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

But a lot of people can’t sit in one spot and drive all day and a lot of People like the sometime it comes with

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ButterscotchNo3984@reddit

Yep as others have said, you make some money but the toll on your body is incalculable. It's a young man's game, guys still doing it into their 40's are in pain constantly.

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BriskManeuver@reddit

LTL is almost on par with a lot less work

Its why its so hard to get into but I did linehaul for 3 years and dont regret it. I only recently quit to go back OTR

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Ayyeee_justin@reddit

Why’d you leave LTL? Ik you said otr but could you go in details?

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BriskManeuver@reddit

I just missed it. No crazy reasons. Just missed driving across the country. With linehaul i just got tired of the same routes tbh

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Ayyeee_justin@reddit

LTL has otr routes, but yeah I get your drift

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BriskManeuver@reddit

The most you do for OTR is if you are teams or do terminal to terminal on extraboard if you are with estes and even then its the same routes you do.

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Bagzthehoney@reddit

I’ll let yall boys have it an stick to hauling my gas

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Ayyeee_justin@reddit

And fuel haulers

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fusillijhericurl@reddit

They can keep it. Personally im too old for that shit

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robexib@reddit

Absolutely, but they're not getting that bag for free. Food service is a young man's job.

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Islanderwithwings@reddit

You guys need to stop showing where the gold mine is. If you show the gold mine, don't be surprised that people will show up to the gold mine.

In the late 2000's, garbage trucks in NYC we're making 6 figures. Till someone made a documentary about it, now take a look at their pay, it's crashed. Because a lot of people showed up to undercut the market.

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DoctorZebra@reddit

Nah. Don't gatekeep the gold mines. When the others can't attract talent, they'll have to raise compensation to compete with the gold mines.

There is no positive outcome from workers keeping their compensation private.

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MedievalMatt91@reddit

This!

The only one that benefits from no one talking about how much they get paid is the company. It’s illegal for them to fire you because you spoke about it. But they do everything they can to make you think you can’t/shouldnt.

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

Most people can’t last in foodservice tho

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pianodude01@reddit

The ones that blow me away are walmart. Good money for mostly drop and hook, dry van and reefer work... realistically an easy job, home pretty often....

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restlessinthemidwest@reddit

Eh, used to work at DOT, hubby still works there as a solo driver. Does not hump any pallets, works 5 days on the road. Is home for at least 2. Never had any issues getting time off, pulling in $120,000 minimum a year. He’s been there 7 years. New truck every 2 years. Many other great benefits. Food service is hard work. Money is there. Find the right company.

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ParticularArrival111@reddit

Fuel hackers and food service work too damn hard. 40 for 40 I make more than both of them. Average week i do way less work and only fall off a little bit.

I average 55 hours a week and make a hundo. Foodservice busting their backs but can make s little more. fuel hauler average 70 hours a week to make a hundo.

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Desh282@reddit

Yep that’s me

Make 120,000 a year

Pnw

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Big_Street9464@reddit

A friend worked for US Food for around 12 years. He has had multiple back surgeries because of the work there. He finally left and went to work at FedEx.

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MuphDiesel@reddit

Yeah but they’re working their asses off for it. I’m getting fatter making just slightly less than them 😂

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East_Indication_7816@reddit

Not worth it. You are actually working non stop for 10 hours a day. With drop and hook, dry van you are just listening to music and podcasts all day while getting paid . I actually make more with this because I trade stocks while waiting to be loaded/unloaded . And I just made $11,000 this month alone trading stocks.

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Timmy98789@reddit

Haha, one lucky month of trading. Show your past 3 years, if not GTFO with that nonsense.

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East_Indication_7816@reddit

Nope.I have been consistent with that. for 6 months now.

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Timmy98789@reddit

You're spouting this crap again. Who didn't make money in March? What about April and May? Where is your $11k for each month. The prior months, show your $11k each month for them.

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decaboniized@reddit

Idk if you consider Raleys or Safeway food service but if you do that food service is a fucking cake walk compared to Sysco, us food, pfg drivers. All we do is drop full pallets with an electric pallet jack.

Sysco, us food, pfg type jobs all respect to them becayse yes they earn every single dollar they make breaking down those pallets delivering to locations.

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

Im making the switch soon to align with my goals

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East_Indication_7816@reddit

switch to food service?

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Alone_Meal_6126@reddit (OP)

Nope regional dry ban

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