I was talking to a former Sysco driver today, he worked there for two months but we both work at Pepsi now, and he had a very different opinion. He says having to break the food pallets down onto a hand truck and walk up his truck's ramp hundreds of times a day at Sysco was WAY more tiring than the unloading and merchandising process at Pepsi. He says the merchandising is annoying but in terms of physical labor the Pepsi job is way less stressful. He also said Pepsi treats the drivers better.
I worked at a Sysco location that was literally next door neighbors with Coke. Guess where we got 95% of our drivers? Back in those days the transportation manager did the entire hiring process. No involvement from HR. One week we had just hired three new drivers, all Coke drivers. I was messing with that supervisor and said, I bet that Coke Transportation Supervisor must f*cking hate you! He laughed and agreed. He went on to say they all pretty much had a good grasp on what they were getting used to, were excited to make almost double the money in some cases, and they literally had almost no turn over when they hired a Coke guy. Once we hired a Coke driver they stayed for the long term.
This is all facts I delivered beer for over a year, and now I work for US foods not having to merchandise that product changes everything. Nd you get paid more to do drop and roll I love it.
Ive done both food and beverage service, theres pros and cons for both, short answer food pays way more, but beverage is abit more easy on the body, its really boils down to what you feel you can handle, ill say this, i almost went back to food service, this year, but found another beverage company thats pays better then the beverage company im currently at
Beer was killing me man I had to constantly take kratom for pain... I am 150 pounds and was dealing with 180 pound kegs all day.. Back ALWAYS hurt.. probably a good thing I got fired for flipping a pedestrian vehical off, because I wasn't going to quit and might of ended up with health issues.
Soda delivery is good if you can get into the Transport division. It's primarily drop and hook transporting full goods/raw materials to other warehouses for the same company. The only sitting I do is live loads for the raw materials aka the empty plastic bottles or empty cans and take it back so they can fill them with the soda or whatever. You can also pick up hazmat loads/ dunnage and there's even sugar loads in a tanker you can do. You can travel 250 miles maybe more from your home warehouse and home every day. Pay is around 65k-70k for Pepsi I'm not sure about the other companies. In my opinion it's the hidden gem side of soda delivery kind of like the shuttle driving side of food service if you don't want to run a ramp or merchandise.
man i'm nervous. just applied to food service. i'm not physically strong but i can endure hard work. i currently work at 7up but coke and pepsi don't want me it seems lol. if nothing works i have to go regional but here's hoping i could stay local.
Man, I wish I would’ve seen this videos a couple months ago, everything you said was spot on! I work for a local beer delivery company, the checking in process, merchandising, & the really small/tight convenient stores are the worst! only to make 22 an hour & get paid biweekly.
Facts , and key thing is the CUSTOMERS , it’s always a bad time “im busy with my customers” food service, the CUSTOMERS love you and happy when you arrive and help you if they can
It all depends on the market your delivery in. Out here in Dallas Pepsi is paying 29.30/hr. I made 85.5k last year. That was pretty average for my department (worked nights). Those damn coolers though. That’s the reason I left. Absolutely know way to make safe lifts. Getting checked in is whatever. I was hourly and everyone (management) knew it was an issue, so I never stressed over that.
@cudleeman in cincinnati ohio they're paying $22hr at pepsi paid weekly, coca cola pays $23hr bi -weekly pay and they also gives you 10cent per case if it makes it to the shelf without being damaged....
I’m diving into foodservice for the first time I have 10 years experience in beverage though. Most I’ve made is 76k but I do know guys that make over 80 just not no 90-100k unless you can milk the clock for 60-65 hours weekly
@@PatrickPierceBateman my personal experience with Gordon, job was hard at times but doable. Since they get paid by component Pay the bigger the route the more u make. I wasn’t making what I thought was reasonable or rewarding for the job. What they don’t tell you also is your in constant danger. Did disarming and Unloading and servicing that establishment with little to no light around the place. Knowing you could get jacked at any moment. And rough areas to deliver to as well.
I can’t lie I work for COKE and have my own route. I live in Louisville, kentucky I think it’s different for city to city. Out of 10 stops 7-8 are drops for me I barely even sweat and some stores that are not drops the customers still works it for me.. I’m only working 45 hours a week.
Sound like you are just a bulk driver. Not the driver that they hire with no experience. I never heard of anybody new to a beverage company getting this type of route. It’s usually seniority. But salute. Someone likes you big time if you came in and got that route off the rip
I left Coca Cola for GFS. Best decision I ever made. Been here almost 1 year. Only working 45 hours a week compared to 60+ at Coca Cola. Plus I’m now making twice as much.
I’m at Pepsi bro and I swear I quit every time I merchandise a store smh. Im honestly thinking about switching over to GFS. Wish you made this a year ago man lol
Broo pepsi be like fill the lows and outs you walk into an account with 5 employees and no one touched the cooler and expects you to do it. That and getting checked in scanned in and waiting is bullshit. Most of the time i brinf it in “uhh yup its all there”
@@firesfrixtionknow how you feel.. then the store clerks always want you to fill cooler to the brim or they threaten to call in on you, like you don't have a hundred other deliveries
Agreed. I just left Coca-Cola & I start US Foods Monday. What did it for me was the Merchandising. I'm not feeling putting it on the shelves and in coolers. I'm good, looking forward to it.
Shits sucks doesn’t it!! Pepsi it’s worse. Least coke over in my area gets a lift gate… yesterday I unloaded 700 cases by myself on my two wheeler… and merched almost every stop! 😑
@@exavion3364 i'm at 7up..they are timing us now with threats of written warnings and termination. last friday one stop had 50 drop off cases needed to be completed in 20 mins, 99 merchandizing cases at bucees in 45 mins. my 2nd stop was walgreens and they told me to wait an hour because my next stop was 20 miles away. i fell off from a lift gate trying to rush..then i realized i don't give a shit anymore. i'll work one more week and i'm going to wait and see if other ppl quit in mass. maybe this is a sign to quit and move on. i see new drivers almost every week because we already have a high turnover rate, i don't know what they are smoking now to make this reckless decision. no one's going to work for them if they keep this up lol. i met a coke guy at a dollar general and he told me he had no time limit..as long as he complete his route. i know pepsi and coke ppl have more cases than us but damn this is ridiculous.
@@tifi4220 Wow! Yeah, no time limit but there’s unrealistic time windows listed on the manifest for hypothetical ideal completion of stops! Like it’ll say arrive at this Walgreens by 12:45pm and then list a departure time as 1:15pm! Like yeahhh right… there’s 95 cases going in here with 60 being 12-packs.. there’s no way!! It takes that time alone to simply down stack and gain entry into the building with all the product!! It’s unbelievable and unrealistic expectations with poor compensation all around.
not a driver but a union, us foods warehouse guy. Your gonna make more money in food service warehouses vs amazon or other companies, like you said its hard work but the pay and benefits are there
I left food service 7 months ago and I'm about to go back. I miss going up and down a ramp even though it beats you up. But man delivering food is the equivalent of having your hazmat.
Pepsi overhiring drivers and cutting the hours. A lot of people lying. I compared my checks to a food driver that was training me and he touched 55k while I was at 33k at 6 months already. Food definitely pay better. I prefer food. You avoid checking in and you don’t have to work a store. Faster , less stress and more money. I want to be a delivery truck driver not merchandiser. Then stores treat you like shit and expect you to perfect their coolers while they have the same products you rolled in untouched at the back.
Extremely great great video bro and appreciate your knowledge as always. Crazy my story is a little different. I chose beverage(Milk) over food service to start. I got myself a nice little gig better schedule then if I would’ve started at the companies i interviewed with for food service. Less hours. Great pay and benefits and to add on a 10k sign on. Let’s see why else I chose milk over food service. Ohh yea we deliver less cases then food service and we don’t stock no shelves we drop and go at most stops like hospitals schools mom and pops groceries etc. when we do check in it’s easy in and out the only downside is waiting on a dock if you deliver to a bigger branch supermarket. I gross 1447 for 4 days when I work a 5 day work week I gross 1992. Im loving what I do so far bro but I must say you have motivated the heck out of me for a while now I’m glad I took that leap of faith bro salute
@@shivanclifford3189 I work for hood we deliver milk and very few case items like coffee creamers eggs sour cream cottage cheese yogurts etc mainly milk tho! This company was found 176 years ago and is still family owned even tho it was sold to someone else. Very good company we are corporate we aren’t all over the world but it’s a great company to work for and pay well. Great work life balance etc they don’t over work you it’s a good place I’m enjoying it so far.
You work over ten hours in a work day You're working for free!!! they also cheat you on the case count you deliver to stores.. my check was always messed up at coca cola so I left
Trust me, you’re only saying that because you work for GFS, and their warehouse is structured and on point with their pallets but you make a little less…. Every other food service distributor works their warehouse based on performance. The loads are fucking DOG SHIT! You’re digging ALL DAY for what you need! US Foods has a $15k sign-on bonus right now!! There’s a REASON for that! I used to work for Reinhart who is now Performance. Food service is fucking horrible!! I did that shit for 2 1/2 years trying to get my CDL and they were on nothing but bullshit… I switched to a beer distributor and got my CDL in 5 months! We have lift gates and e-jacks. I may have to break down pallets at stores and merch the accounts, but I’ll still take that every day over having to tear apart my truck to get a fucking case of chicken that’s buried under 60 other cases because the load selector didn’t give a fuck and just wanted to make his $35 an hour so he threw the pallet together as fast as possible… I make $27 an hour and $40.50 after 40 hours. I average 50 hours a week sometimes more. Honestly, I’m cool with making $75-80k a year for a year or two while I get my CDL experience up and also get my endorsements and then go into local dedicated and make $90-100k a year bumping docks! I’ll NEVER do food service again!! Ever! That shit legit gave me PTSD from how fucking horrible the loads were and the amount of physical pain I endured dealing with that bullshit every day! Not to mention destroying my knees having to run a ramp with a hand truck with 250-350lbs stacks of food… FUCK THAT!! I’ll stick with beer and deal with the bad days and enjoy the good days especially with that OT money!
I can guarantee that if u choose food service, ur going to have 120% basement and sometimes send the product upstairs ....snow ...rain... Any weather and customer have 120% right even if they treat ublike shi...
Nah..It depends on where you live. I live in FL. I’ve been with GFS almost 6yrs and never been in a basement. Nor had to go upstairs. You will work in any weather condition. I’m a chain delivery driver so I rarely see any customers on my route. All key drops.
Depends where, I only merchandise 4 different store chains. Rest are drop and go. U gotta think everything is palletized per stop and lift gate. Foodservice u dig for almost everything. for the most part food service touches same product multiple times. Alot of beverage sucks though from what I've heard. But idk most foodservice guys I've heard say they work 14 hours everyday so that sounds pretty miserable
Man, beverage was horrible. I’m speaking from experience not what I heard. I use to have product on pallets and also on carts. You still had to break the pallets down & run cases inside c-stores. Having an EJack & lift gate was cool but when you have 7-10 pallets going to liquor stores it still sucked big time. I had 3 liquor stores owned by the same person that required us to also price the cases. 2-3 salesman use to have to help price and run cases in and it still took 3-4hrs to service the customer. No shade either. Breaking down pallets & pricing cases in the sun was NO fun at all. Nobody liked running my route because of those liquor stores lol. I worked 60+hrs every week! I don’t miss it one bit! Now I work 39-43hrs a week/ 4 days doing food service and make twice as much money. Also paid weekly instead of bi weekly. I’m good!
Lift gates are gold to me in my area!! Lol we still have side loaders only 2 lift gates in our entire fleet. Well 4 technically but two are to replace the other 2 in a worse case scenario event! I easily work about 13 hours a day at least 3 days out the 5 day work week on my side loader.. About 6 months in at Pepsi and it still isn’t the best.. just a lot of work and not so good pay.!
Pepsi in Northern California 85k last year and didn't work as much as other drivers here..but..food service is 100k standard here..can't beat the Pepsi schedule, days/weekends/all holidays paid..you have to merch some..maybe 300 cases and the rest pallet jack work..the sacrifice is yours to be made..
@@MKultra209 bro your lying lol!!! Workin at Pepsi there dba side loaders average like 1,000$ a week after taxes lol.. and Pepsi bulk drivers. The drivers that delivers to big chain stores like Walmart,Costco,samsclub. And stores like that only average about 900$ a week lol where you see 85k a year at lol more like 50k a year but that’s not bad at all!! I’m at US-Foods in Tampa and we average 2000$ or more every week really more like 2,400$ a week!!!
@@adrianpope2132 Adrian..I'm not the one to lie on the internet. Trust me, we got drivers making over 90k at Pepsi. Shoot me your info and I'll send my stub for last year or better yet have Anthony hit me so he can post it..I can it can be hard to believe with all these kids lying on the internet..but trust me..I'm not the one..for what???
@@MKultra209 bro I don’t need to see no fake pay stubs!!! I honestly know for a fact that Pepsi driving deliverying locally doesn’t make no 90k a year!!! Dats cap!! I’m a driver myself! Class A!! I worked in beverage industry!! Wen I worked for Arizona beverages I used to see Pepsi all the time and we talk lol I just had a interview for Pepsi 5/24/22 and he gave me a rundown on all drivers positions and wat the make and it definitely wasn’t 90k a year lol!!!
@@adrianpope2132 i don't understand why your so indenial..you say you know for a fact..your living in a bubble..im here in the bay area where it cost a lot to live therefore wages will account for that somewhat..unless you want to see the stubs..there's nothing I got left to say to you that'll help you or anyone else.
Beer delivery some states don't merch stores. Also some accounts will just do a case count as you walk by with stacks depending on your area or how long you've had relationships with your accounts. But money wise food service seems to make more money also more hours
I work for pepsi i make 28.25 an hour and i worked a lot of saturdays and saturdays with holiday pays and made 85,000 gave up a lot of time off to make that and now gonna work at us foods
Walmart will audit they do it all the time with my company but I just started driving I don't mind it wanted to get some experience to get in to food service
🙃 It’s all fun until you can’t get your door open because the warehouse can’t build a decent pallet and everything tipped over blocking your door from sliding up! 😂
Anthony, what made you decide from us foods and Sysco? I got done applying to us foods, Sysco and Pepsi lol. Trying to get away from this regional bs. Thanks for video.
Where I'm at food service is the worst thing as far as local jobs go. You have to have experience and they pay the lowest. I can't afford to work for Sysco or US Foods. I can afford to work for Pepsi and Coke tho.
Not true..All depends on company, location, and or route. For example Sysco, US FOODS, GFS, & McLane all have trailers with lift gates and E jacks. Some locations have majority lift gates and other locations have majority ramp. Companies like Martin Brower has all lift gates no pallet jacks. There product is on rollers.
Well drivers at Silver Eagle Houston have to count every case to the store with the person in receiving. Also at Silver Eagle Houston you have to wait for a driver position to be open. When I worked there I saw people who were helpers for years before they were drivers and they have to interview for that driver position. That’s why I left honestly it was no point in waiting to be a driver just to get paid salary. 😂
Absolutely not true. I’ve been in the food service industry almost 4yrs and I’m good. Not to mention I’m 41 & still hit the gym 2-3 times a week. There are guy’s much older than me still getting it.
Your original comment was food service will put you in a wheelchair at an early age. Now you’re saying talk to you after year 15. What happened to the wheelchair at early age talk? Some of you guys who comment are hilarious to me..🤦🏾♂️😂
@@imanthonytv I think I already commented on several of your videos, you look like you have an athletic build. I do too, but I'm only 5'9", slender athletic build, always in the mid 150-ish lb range. That said, I also worked out during all the years working at Sysco. I put in 32 years, retired at 55, still work out to this day. I have zero joint or back issues to this day and I'm 63 years old. I will be honest, we did have injuries at Sysco, but it never seemed to be from the more slender, athletically built guys. It always seemed to be the guys that carried some extra lbs. Those extra pounds are tough on knee joints, they also had more back injuries because they normally don't have a strong core.
