Thoughts on PFG shuttle driver pos.

It sounds like a very easy job, and you probably won’t make as much starting out at FedEx. But you’d be working overnights indefinitely and having to cover delivery routes is a bit of a red flag. You’ll want to find out how often that might happen, and ask what happens if a more senior driver decides he wants to do your job instead of a delivery route.

This is coming from someone who worked at a competitor, so no direct info on PFG, but those are still relevant things to think about.

 

Minus the ins and outs of the food service microcosm, I'd suggest that any one getting into that industry segment take a long hard look at the risk exposure that food service has with regard to COVID and how government is quick to slash restaurant dining capacities at the increase of infection rates. Like it or not, COVID is not going away any time soon, nor is its impact with regard to state and local regulation of it.

 

Also you have to think about what will happen if someone gets hurt. Someone blows out a knee and ends up on light duty your running his route while he is doing your shuttle gig.

 

My last gig, out of a driver corp of 65, there was not a single week of 52 in the year where SOMEONE was not on vacation. If you're going to be tasked with delivery routes when someone's on vacation, you'll wind up on shuttle a day or two a week, and the rest will be covering routes, if you're lucky. My hunch is that it's a bait and switch to get you in the door, but I'm cynical.

 

They probably have the other shuttle guys pull turn and a halfs or even two full turns if they can do it legally.

 

Or do a reverse turn from the main DC.