Great benefits and a steady paycheck that's about it.
Pros
1. Health Insurance - dirt cheap 2. Pension after 5 years 3. Two weeks of vacation after your first year 4. Stable job if you can hack it or even want to hack it.
Cons
Some other reviewer said it best, it's like working at an assembly line...seriously the job requires repetitive movement at a fast pace which will make your ankles and knees sore like no other. Most DSL (managers) will not come out and help because the nature of the job is tough, that's one reason why they took the office job to begin with. The biggest let down for me is that they don't cross train you on a new route as a RSA and wonder why you are working 16 hours that day. Right after training, if they had time to give you a DOT certification you'll be sent out on a small route which you have never been. Get your own GPS and make sure it doesn't need a charger because a lot of these step vans (bread trucks) don't have a cigarette lighter to hook up your GPS. Don't spend too much time making the rack too nice (try to keep it under an hour checking in, merchandising, and ordering) and you'll be fine. I started on a Memorial Day push week and ended with on a 4th of July Push week during my 6 week training. We had a 14 day heat wave and high humidity in my area. Btw you'll be lucky to have a fan, but some don't (only bulk trucks have AC). 1) long hours 2) heat/cold 3) sore body 4) trouble sleeping 5) no life My route was working from 2am to 2pm on an average. So you might come home by 4pm then what? take a nap, but don't eat and sleep cuz it'll get you bad. Expect to sleep on and off like an hour nap after work then watch tv or excercise for another two hour then go back to sleep then wake up by 1am.... then it's all again. My area's pay was about $18/hour and about $5/hr overtime. My advice is to try it out, this job is not made for a lot of people hence a high turn over rate for newly hires.
