Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago
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What you mean with the last part of your message ?He's saying Sysco has locations all over the country. In the 2 years he's been there he has run the risk of running out of hours twice. When you're local and you run out of hours, you get laid over in a hotel for your 10 hour break.
Are you busting your ass as much with the last set of jobs FedEx, UPS, XPO, Estes, R&L?There are always good days and bad days, like anywhere else. These jobs are based on seniority and you're likely to be working nights to start, especially in an area like Boston.
Oh, I've ran out of hours on my 14 before - in that case they had someone come from the terminal to drive me and the truck back (Call beforehand at the 12.5-13 hour mark or so to see what they want to do). The two situations were not being able to make it back on my 16 hour exemption and being stuck like 50 miles away.
Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago
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I work for Sysco; they're everywhere. In 2 years there have been potentially TWO days I would not have been home that night.
Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago
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If you transfer your license, make sure you get real ID.
I did that and didn't even know real ID was a thing because my original state did it my default. Now I have one that says "not for federal identification"
Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago
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Another example to add for my motto of: "It's not you that gets you in trouble most of the time, it's the people you know."
Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago
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Doesn't take that long if you do it yourself.
I've unloaded plenty of times myself and it definitely gets done quicker. Unfortunately nearly everywhere I've done it no longer allows us on the dock due to covid. They didnt even need to downstack anything just take the 8 pallets off. Charged me $60. Atleast they didnt charge me over $400 like Sysco last week for a couple pallets.
I can assure you I profited quite nicely from that
Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago
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Its truly amazing the docks some places can come up with. Someone has to look at it and say " yes let's try to cram a truck in there multiple times a day."I find it surprising that they send combo’s to stores like that. Would make sense to have a small box truck division(reefer and dry) for those stores to minimize the chance of an Incident.
Shoot! Don't be surprised at all. Usual response is, "We get big trucks in here all the time." Liars.
Me the sysco guy - what size trucks do you usually get?
Them - oh a full size one
They don't know the difference between a 28 and a 48
Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago
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You say that, but I just got done with a 65 hour week. I'm still getting around 51-52ish in 4 days, and worked 5 this week. At least you get to go home though (Although if things went south yesterday I would have to have spent my sunday morning driving back and getting like 3-4 hours pf time)
Posted: 3 years, 8 months ago
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There's a bridge I often see labled as 13'1. Even with a 13'0 trailer I avoid it because it's easy; if it said 13'5 or so I might go under it.
Posted: 3 years, 8 months ago
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Anger - Not from trucking, it's a personal matter.
Sysco has guard shacks?
Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago
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New HOS rules being implemented next week: Can someone, anyone explain it in simple terms?
This is my favourite part for obvious reasons