Everything else.
The minute that you have to involve Marion in any equasion, expect trouble. From the loading of trucks, to the dreaded Recon department constantly threatening to short your paycheck, everything that involves marion is a nightmare.
Here is an average day as a Pepsi driver now.....
Arrive at 0600. Trailers probably aren't on time. Can arrive as late as 0930. Once you do get started, be prepared to fight the other drivers for a truck that might concievably pass a DOT inspection.
And since you got a late start, all of your customers are mad now, and some of them have cutoff times for deliveries. Heaven help you if you have Wal-Mart on you! And I hope you don't have plans this evening, because getting a 3 hour late start thanks to Marion's incompetance is not a valid excuse to miss an account. Don't bother asking your manager to redispatch it either, because Marion will reprimand both you and your manager for missing said stop.
It is not unusual for a driver to return to the depot as late as 1900....
When you're out on route, depending on your area, your customers will treat you with wildly varying degrees of respect. But they ALL hate Pepsi Midamerica. All of them. Most of them are smart enough to realize that you aren't solely responsible for the poor service. Others... not so much.
Also, your sales rep (the guy who makes the orders that you're delivering), has to reach his sales goals, or he can get fired. So be prepared for some severly overstocked backrooms and angry customers.
Then you have to fill out a stack of paperwork when you get back, and you better pray that everything balances out. They have even started deducting pay for the pallets! And it's really hard to get your PALLET count to balance when -
A) we leave pallets at some customers, and we may not pick up as much as we leave. It's just the nature of the beast.
And B) The start of day load paperwork from Marion has the wrong pallet count. Every day. 100% of the time. Never seen it right since I started, never heard of it being right from anyone else.
And I haven't even mentioned the fact that they routinely short you actual product as well. So you have to catch and fix every piddly mistake that should have been caught and fixed by the loaders. And if you don't, expect a notice from Recon within a day or so.
Don't even get me started on the equipment either.... Of all the trucks on our lot, I'd say only 50% are safe to drive. And the trailers we get from Marion are a joke. The liftgates barely work. Turn signals work when they want to. Some of their brakes are so badly worn that they would be more useful as hood ornaments. And you can write up DVIR slips all you want - if the truck is capable of running, it won't get serviced.
