It’s no picnic - Class A CDL Delivery Driver Sysco Employee Review

3.0
Apr 15, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Union benefits, willingness to give you “experience”. Management is good most days. Transportation supervisors understand

Cons

Everything else sucks. Equipment is +10 years old, tractors, trailers, pallet jacks. Finding the delivery location, digging through the pallets to look for a case. Pay is alright, OT is basically mandatory, you will spend 14 hours working a day. Don’t plan to see your family much. Days off are spent recovering from touching 600-900 cases each route, weighing around 15,000 pounds daily. I don’t believe there’s much career advancement, for CDL anyway.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

You can make money but it all depends on the orders you get, how fast you can go, how long you can maintain that pace without getting burned out. Definitely a young mans sport, as the do refer to you as "industrial athletes."

Cons

Like many industries the hours can be long. For the ones who don't make much on running above rate then you can make up for it in hours. If you soak the hours and run you can definitely make some big money. The turn over rate is extremely high there, even in management. I used to be proud of the union but the teamsters in Cleveland are completely worthless, I would bet they are getting paid under the table to not fight for contract negotiations. When I was there the contract expired and they barely fought for anything, on voting day they literally said they wont back us up if we don't pass this contract....so consider that when you want to work for this place. Also the equipment is so old and broken that people were taking the scanners home just so they could have a good one for the next night.

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