Pros
-Little micromanagement -Get to meet a lot of different people -Decent variety and quality of products to sell -Good benefits -plenty of overtime -Seeing how nasty many restaurants are -On your own most of the day -relatively flexible schedule
Cons
-Plenty of overtime (50-70 hour weeks. Add 10-20 hours if on call) -On call -Poor technical training -No pay raises -Expect good paying routes to be chopped up to subsidize the lesser ones, all for the sake of paying new employees more because they can’t keep people. -Next promotion for an SSR is to a Route Manager which essentially is ‘utility’ guy and SSR with more paperwork, hours, and headaches. The job description is rarely what the job actually is because the branches are constantly losing drivers whose routes need covered. -Cumbersome executive management limits both the branch managers and regionals abilities to service customers properly. -boasts a mission statement desiring to be the best service company, but there pay structure promotes sales above service. -SSRs have no motivation to help cover other routes. Most are busy enough and they don’t get paid off any of the sales. -When a branch needs a new vehicle it can take more than a year. -DOT regulations along with the demands of the job can make it easy for a strict inspector to slap a $10,000 fine on an SSR.