Domino's Pizza

It's very hard work. Long hours and little sleep.

 

It's not for the typical trucker. You need to be young and in shape.. or a general tough hombre to do it everyday.

You can pile 200#, 300#, or more lbs on the hand cart and hump load after load up and down the ramp, thru the door and inventory against the invoice.

Don't forget.. while at 2 and 3am you're all alone behind those strip malls and the less than desirable elements of society are out there with you.

You will run into them.

 

Try PaPa Johns, that's if there's one near you. Palletized liftgate loads. 2 days out. Also get paid around $75k.

 

Domino's uses lift gates as well. I saw a Domino's truck today. You'll be in a sleeper cab with a 48' trailer and since they put Domino's Pizza's pretty much anywhere you will have stops where you'll be throwing on the four ways and "running it in off the street" as we say. The lift gates swing out from under neath the side of the trailer because the pizza dough and stuff is meant to come out of the side. Big heavy trays full of pizza dough. Then of course you'll be hand trucking the stuff in. I know Domino's is swing door and dry is probably run out of the back down a ramp.

Look at the picture in the link the cold stuff comes out of the side. Cheese, Sauce, Dough and probably a lot of frozen because all the topping are frozen.

http://hankstruckforum.com/htforum/index.php?topic=71047.0

 

I worked with a guy that said it is hard work, but he pulled down like 90K a year.

 

I used to work for Dominoes and its very hard work. The pay is decent most of it is at night. Usually between 11pm and 6am. Most nights you will start out at 10pm for your run. Its different than most foodservice because the truck is basically a warehouse on wheels. You select your own product to deliver to the customer. So you get a bill and everything is loaded in bulk on your truck. So you pick what you need from the invoice and take it in the store. In Denver it was lift gates. I do believe most if not all the dominoes are going to or have already gone to lift gates. You will make around 80k a year and usually work between 4 and 5 days a week.

 

Domino's and the Papa are pretty much 24/7 365 days a week operations same with the Ceasar. I don't really live near a Domino's Warehouse, I've thought about Domino's or the Papa, but when you don't live near the warehouse, it kind of puts the kabosh on that, although I think Domino's for diner right now is sounding awful good.

When you're in a sleeper cab operation like that, it's usually 2 guys and it's go go go go go. The way it works is this, at the warehouse they figure they cover what every Domino's in a 400 mile radius maybe more. Now I don't know how many Domino's stores they can fit on a truck because I don't know there cube situation. I don't know if Domino's is palatalized or floor loaded. Figure floor loaded they can probably do 1600-1700 cube in a truck. Now we would have to figure, what's the average cube of a typical Domino's store and how many times a week do they get delivery?

Remember places like Domino's and Papa John's are not really supposed to run to the grocery store if there short on ingredients like you own a family restaurant and you run out of something you can go get more at the store chain and franchise places don't work like that, not really, you buy everything through the company warehouse. It's all tracked by computer as well. So the way it normally works at Domino's is you're a team and I don't know say each warehouse has 30 trucks well you and you're team member go out for 2 days or so I don't know how many stops that is because see routes can be funny like that, you might do 2-3 Dominos in Cleveland and then go and drive to Canton hit 2 or 3 and then go further down to say Steubenville and then switch off and go to the next one. Routes can be funny like that. Anyhow you go out for you're 2 days then when you get back to the warehouse you're get out of you're truck and the trailer is disconnected from the truck and then next team gets in and starts running. It's pretty much all day and all night you don't stop till you're done.

https://jobs.dominos.com/dominos-careers/jobs/10525BR/class-b-scc-driver

I've never seen a Domino's Class B truck they must be using them for local routes and stores that are in close proximity to the warehouse.

Pizza Pizza is a Canadian Pizza Chain up in Toronto and if you're interested in getting into the pizza business this while Undercover Boss isn't the best show ever I find it way to mushy, but if you can get past all the TV fluff you do get to see a little bit of the operation and to see how the pizza business works.

 

No sleep, co-driver that found the rumble strips every 2 miles,18-34 hour routes, crappy loaded trailers, key drops in bad neighborhoods at 1 in the morning, play not even close to what they claim, spend your days off catching up on sleep. Never again. Worst 6 months I ever spent delivering food(2008) and I have been delivering food for 13 years now.