New Dr Pepper Driver

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Mack37, May 24, 2018.

  1. Mack37

    Mack37 Bobtail Member

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    I recently accepted a local delivery job with Dr Pepper in the Dallas area and I'd like some advice from others who have done this in the past on what I can expect and how to do well.

    The job is 5 days a week, 5am till finish and base pay is $46k a year with the potential for $5k in commission a year (based on per case deliveries). It sounds like a great starter job and I'm excited to get working but I'm concerned that the smaller trucks aren't going to be good experience for moving into larger trucking jobs (with better pay). They do have bulk delivery drivers that operate full-sized 10-speeds and my hopes are that I can get into those and get enough experience to move into intermodal or local gas deliveries.

    Anyone have any thoughts or advice?
     
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  3. jammer910Z

    jammer910Z Road Train Member

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    I hope you are young and have a strong back.
    I did this for Pepsi back in the 80s..
    Working off of a route truck.

    You'll roll up to a store and check your invoice.. offload your product into rollable stacks and wheel them into the store with a 2wheel hand cart.

    The clerk will verify your order, and you'll proceed to stock the shelves and cooler with the new product.

    Keep in mind that the NEW product is dated and must go underneath and behind the product that was already there.
    So, you'll move the old product.. place the new.. replace the old on top.

    Then you'll pick up all damaged and out of date material that SHOULD be sorted beforehand by your pre-salesman... but seldom is.. or they won't give you your invoice so that you can leave.
    So, when you leave out with a 400 case day, plan on touching about 1,000 cases.

    I always gave the advice/example..
    Imagine having a flatbed truck full of cinder blocks.
    Every day you drive around and unload them at various places, but when you do, you have to put the new blocks underneath the blocks you gave them three days before.

    It's a young man's job.
    They burn out fast.
    GOOD LUCK. It is a good job, though.
     
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  4. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    Not only that, you better catch all your stops! They raise cane if you don't. Then you have to do all the aforementioned work at each store basically in 20-30 min or less.
     
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    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    You'll get yourself in phenomenal shape though
     
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  6. Mack37

    Mack37 Bobtail Member

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    They said I go from 5am till whenever I finish, is that really a concern? How many cases a day can I expect?

    One of the reasons I got into it! Like getting paid to work out!
     
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    It all depends on how much your salesman orders. When I work at dr. Pepper Snapple Group in Nashville, ifif I if I would have 400-500 cases on a busy day. Most of time it was about 300 or so. You want to get finished early because you get a 60 hr work week. Try to get done in less than 12 hrs so you can be able to work all 5 days
     
  9. Baty Dispatch

    Baty Dispatch Light Load Member

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    Get the experience and move up into a bigger truck later.
     
  10. 1badtruckdriver

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    Im 55 and hoping to land a gig like this.
    I work out daily, weights, and hell if I can get paid...
    However that said, I want to do potato chips
     
  11. 1badtruckdriver

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    Good luck with the gig by the way.
     
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