Schneider?
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First question: which grocery store?
It's common for recruiters to put the hard sell for Dollar Store routes. Truth is, these do pay better, but the work is strenuous.
Sprouts in Arizona, no touch freight. Go in at 1 am every morning.
Making $900 weekly or taking home $900 weekly?
If you're interested in running local, why not check your area first for LTL jobs? Most LTLs I know of pay more than most truckload companies.
LTL:
Less Than Truckload
Refers to carriers that make a lot of smaller pickups and deliveries for multiple customers as opposed to hauling one big load of freight for one customer. This type of hauling is normally done by companies with terminals scattered throughout the country where freight is sorted before being moved on to its destination.
LTL carriers include:
- FedEx Freight
- Con-way
- YRC Freight
- UPS
- Old Dominion
- Estes
- Yellow-Roadway
- ABF Freight
- R+L Carrier
First question: which grocery store?
It's common for recruiters to put the hard sell for Dollar Store routes. Truth is, these do pay better, but the work is strenuous.
What makes the work strenuous?
Lifting something weighing like a bag of cement all day long?
Most things I have seen in dollar stores are light, cheesy plastic stuff.
I am sure they have forklifts, dollies, hand jacks and/or hand trucks.
Most things I have seen in dollar stores are light, cheesy plastic stuff.
I am sure they have forklifts, dollies, hand jacks and/or hand trucks.
Oh it's nice you get to learn this one the easy way. First of all, when it comes to trucking, don't make any assumptions.
I worked the Dollar Tree account for a year and they have tons of heavy food items - cases full of canned foods and glass jars even. They also carry a lot of things like cases of kitty litter and such. And many of the Dollar Store chains require you to hand offload onto a set of rollers, one box at a time. We used to unload 90,000 pounds of goods in a week many times, by hand, each and every box, one at a time.
On top of that, the stores are extremely difficult to find and even worse to get into many times. They're often located in small strip plazas in very busy sections and many of them don't even have loading docks. It's a nightmare maneuvering around the parking lots and then getting the boxes unloaded without a dock is a slow process in a very hot trailer in the summer.
It was by far the toughest trucking job I've ever had, and the toughest one I know of physically.
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Hey guys, I was offered a local gig with Schneider running for a grocery store. They told me guys are making around 900 weekly. I'm wondering if anyone can give me some input off Schneider? Do the trucks have anything inside of them? Is the pay really decent? Not sue if I should make the switch or not.