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You know it sucks I think I may have made a mistake leaving the beer truck company I was working for the whole thing I felt very neutral over delivering beer I didn't love it, but didn't hate it either it did nothing for me. I went over to what I thought was and does have a good reputation as far as companies go in the broad line food service world, but our yard is a totally different story and it's not all bad, but there's some aspects I don't like. I'll be brutally honest we have some stops that require you to back into a parking garage off of a busy city street down town and then ally dock to try and hit the dock and that's not easy even for drivers who are way better then me. I've had great trouble with that stop and it's not cool. Also I don't care for driving tractor trailers underneath buildings in the parking garages and wiggling around throwing the freezer section out of the side door then repositioning and backing back into the dock. Then once you get there all the invoices with this number go here and all the invoices with that number go there, I don't like that either.

I never had that delivering beer and all of that is becoming a deal breaker for me. We make good money delivering food, but it's a pain and I'm not happy and to me being happy is more important, the cement truck company won't pay as much as what I made doing food I know this, but the money it pays probably is probably greater then or equal to what I made delivering beer and that I can live with. Plus it had benefits, so I'm kind of like why not?

I haven't really worked in the construction industry, but the driving part wouldn't be as bad, I mean I can shift gears better now then I used to be able to ha-ha! (If the trucks were autos that would be even better, but I won't hold my breath ha-ha as long as it's a auto or 10 speed though were good ha-ha!)

I don't know what cement trucks are transmission wise probably like every heavy truck it's everything under the sun considering the entire industry is in change over mode like or not my Class B is real rusty, but I welcome the change being out side and not having to worry about this product or a credit here or credit there or any other BS that comes along. Most of the time I've seen cement trucks usually just run back and fourth to the same job site all day. I bet there hours very as well probably long days one day and shorter days the next. We start early in the morning delivering food and probably the cement trucks start early too, but not as early as us I bet.

I also wonder if you know cement trucks get to a job site and there's a delay or something and you're just sitting there chilling getting paid while the construction crew tries to figure out what they want to do.


I did apply for a job working at Dayton Freight, I want a job that I can live with, I mean I could have stayed doing beer it was okay, but it was a grind and doing food god bless the people who do it for years on end, but it's even more of a grind and it pays good, but that being said it doesn't pay any better then like LTL linehaul jobs actually front load garbage truck drivers make as much as food service drivers so to me it's kind of why am I staying here?

Don't get me wrong cleaning out the chute and lifting a heavy thing here or there, that's fine

Ya just to remember a few things:

The product is a hell of a lot heavy then food or beer put together, it's liquid rock.

And very perishable(4 to 8 hours max)

Keep the drum turning and the product slightly damp.

Hose down any thing the cement touches on the truck after every delivery.

Keep the water tank full.

If the product gets hard... your going to have a very long and bad day.. or your going to get fired.

Clean out the drum very well with lots of water,
Any left over cement will go hard as a rock and is very impossible to remove unless your the one crawing in the drum a jackhammer

Check your breaks multi times a day,
Cement is very heavy and can a major problems if your parked on a hill and the are not adjusted correctly.

A run-a-way cement mixer is not what you ever want on your hands, in any way or form.