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If you have driven for any of these companies as a "Bay delivery Driver" or know anyone who has can you please post what your experiences were like with these types of compaines. Please include if you were paid by mile or hour!!
I'm going to School in 2 weeks to get a Class A CDL, and I am thinking of going with one of these types of compaines based on 2 factors, home time and hourly pay (fed ex says $15.50 hour Coke says around $17 an hour, haven't found much on beer companies and such).
If anyone has any advice good, bad or other about them please let me know ASAP.
P.S. I looked into line haul and LTL, I found a few that looked appealing BUT they say you have to be 22, 23...
(looking for something in las vegas for 21 years old, that will take recent driving school grad.)
Thank you very much for your help!

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I only have experience as a retail mgr. With tha I can tell you the delivery people take alot of abuse. You are more of a retail delivery and POS setup person than a truck driver. They are required too do all setup of displays and promotions as well as resetting of coolers be it beer or soda. The big plus is most are always hiring because of a large turn over. It isn't easy. You start in the morning and finish when you are done, no set time usually. My experience working with them is in Az and Fl so it may be different there. I like driving and retail delivery is to much like work for me.
By the way POS means "point of sale"

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Ok, you say there is no set time, when your done your done? Are you saying that in your experience that the drivers don't get at least 8 hours a day most of the time or not, because one company says 8-10 hours a day 5 days a week, with over time calculated (before taxes) that would be around 42K, is that number way off in your opinion, (or fact)?
I mean 42K what abuse? lol

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Your right the money isn't bad and the works not to hard.

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That sounds like decent money. This is work for younger guys. It's tough on the bod. Don't expect to be able to retire from jobs like this unless it's from a disability / worker's comp standpoint. Not a whole lot of driving but plenty of lumping, walking. Probably beats OTR until the body starts to go down. I'd rather not have to choose either one.______
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8-10 hours? On a slow day, ya. I worked for coke for a summer and it is a hard job if you drive sideload. Alot of little stores and YOU put the product on the self. Most was 11-12 hour days. Check the pay FIRST!!! Are they paying hourly plus commision? If so, now you have to be a sales man also because you make extra off every case you sale, and then they pay you an low hourly rate(around here that is how it works). Since you are young, a physical job like that you may enjoy. I do foodservice local and regional, and it is VERY PHYSICAL. Any driving job that involes retail delivery is physical and no quiten time, you get done when all your stops are off, but A) you are home every night(or every other night regional) B) $$$$.
Good luck. If you can get in now, you will avoid haveing to do a year dwelling around the country to get experience( I wonder what that is like?)SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND
FREEDOM WITH THIER EXCEPTION"
Metallica "Eye of the Beholder"


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"Special Notes: 8-10 hours a day, typical start time is between 3am and 4am, MUST HAVE A CLASS A CDL, starting salary is $16.39"
So $16.39 an hour and no commission I guess?
"Delivers product to stores over an established route or via dispatch to regular customers, including Convenience and Gas stores, small supermarkets, drug stores, etc. Drives the delivery vehicle and brings product into the store as it is sold. Responsible for ongoing rotation and stocking of product on store shelves and displays, and in coolers and vending equipment. Builds small displays and sets up promotional materials such as pricing signs and banners. Generates invoices and is responsible for daily settlement of cash and charges. Has frequent interaction with store management. Requires a Class A CDL.
PRIMARY JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:
•Deliver product and execute all promotions
•Service all scheduled customers by the end of shift
•Merchandise all accounts to local standards
•Establish positive working relationships with primary contact at each account "

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One other thing to consider. It's easier going from an OTR job to local, than the other way around.
If you decide to switch from local to OTR, most OTR companies will NOT consider you as an experienced driver. BOL

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Yup, and OTR jobs are paying $80,000 to start
Try it and let me know how long your days are. I have been doing retail delivers for over 3 years(and driving for seven). 8-10 hours is an AVERAGE.

Get stuck at a dock, got to wait, customer too busy to check order in, got to wait, no deliveries between this time and that time, now what? Got to wait or move to the next one and come back. Some customers will not let you deliver doing lunch or you have a cut off time that you have to be there by. They make the rules,NOT THE COMPANY Just don't count on EVERY DAY being 8-10 hours.
Good luck on applying for it, and if you do get in, you got it made. Local, home every night.
I don't mean to sound like a smarta$$ or anything by posting this but I am just trying to let you know how it is. It not easy work but can be fun and VERY REWARDING SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND
FREEDOM WITH THIER EXCEPTION"
Metallica "Eye of the Beholder"


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I currently work for coca cola I get paid commison
plus a base rate I work 4 days a week I get paid
$118.50 a day plus .12 cents a case. Last year I
made $39000 working 4 days a week I used to work
for Schneider on there Walmart dedicated account
but I didn't like being away from home I take home
at least $1000 every two weeks some of the days
are long but never more than 12 hours you get paid
commision so when your truck is empty you are done
so how long you work is up to how fast you can empty your truck.
Yeah is harder work than otr but I average at least $16 an hour with otr
you dont average that with all the hours you are away from home
and you sleep in your own bed at night and like I said I only
work 4 days a week so a 12 hour day is only 48 hours a week with
three 3 off

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Finally, the truth is spoken! SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND
FREEDOM WITH THIER EXCEPTION"
Metallica "Eye of the Beholder"


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More information I work for cce which is Coca cola Enterprises
the distributor for Coke they have a website that that list
there openings its https://cce.recruitmax.com/ENG/candidates/
for anybody that is interested . Its hard work but you get use to it
and you wont see any overweight sideload drivers.
My schedule is monday tuesday wednesday and saturday I
have thursday friday and sunday off .[/url]

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And makers of Coke. 100% seperate company and the biggest Coke bottler in the world(worked for them for a summer). Excellent company to get into .SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND
FREEDOM WITH THIER EXCEPTION"
Metallica "Eye of the Beholder"


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It friggin' sux, that's what it's like. Tonight I'm stuck out of hours in a nasty, garbage strewn dropyard near the north side of Dayton, Ohio - which if it ain't the a$$hole of the world, then it's a good farting distance close. Can't get any sleep because I keep getting woken up by police sirens. Tomorrow a run to a Wal-Mart store in Kentucky where I get to lump my 53' trailer full of peat moss into the lawn & garden section.
Company handload policy is as follows: $12.00 per hour after the first hour.

I worked in the FedEx Ground organization for awhile (which includes FedEx Home Delivery). Stay away from them you won't make any money there. FedEx Express and Freight are pretty good. Whatever you choose, don't go OTR or you'll regret it big time.
Looks like your on the right track going the local, hourly route. Best o' luck to ya'
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Now that is BS!
Nowhere except in trucking would this happen. Nobody else in the labor force has to work their first hour for free. I wouldn't touch a piece of freight on that trailer with a policy like that. Of course, I probably wouldn't be working there long either.