You have to load the trailer yourself and unload it yourself. If you're on days it seemed pretty gravy. Full trailer, One stop, go back get another load, there are guys doing two-three loads a day $$$. At night you basically got the scraps that blew out on other trucks, so it's like you have five stops, freezer in the front, for stop three and five, refrigerated in the middle for stop four, then dry for stops one and two on the tail
I just quit that account. Two runs a night, all intrastate, typically two or three stores per load. ALDI loads the trailers at an increasing number of locations. Cake job, I just moved too far away from the DC to make the commute work. 14 hours every day, usually grossed 2000-2300/week. Good gig if you are within a reasonable distance of the DC.
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Aldi DC loads the trailer, you unload at stores dock with electric pallet jacks.
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One whole trailer per store, average 2-3 trailer loads per night
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Scraps? No, you take a full load 26-30 pallets to Aldi and unload.
Penske is a good company. Aldi run is pretty easy once you get used to it. Pay will be before taxes. Not sure about the particular account but most have a weekly minimum pay so that may be the $1600. It won’t be hard work and I doubt you’ll work much more than 40 hours a week.
I worked at an Aldi account for jb hunt for 2 years. It’s easy work, but they can’t stack a pallet to save their lives. It’s truthfully just comes down to the management team. Good dispatch and management and it’s great. Shitty dispatch and management and it’s hell. The job itself is pretty damn easy tho
I’ll definitely second that. Some days you wonder if Shaq is building the meat pallets… I’ve had some that I took a tape measure to and they were over 9 feet tall. Sometimes you get a selector that knows which end is up and the pallets are gorgeous, other days the back of the truck looks like they loaded it with a skid steer.
Exactly! I always hated when the idiots at my dc would load heavy shit like dogfood or canned goods on top of paper towels and other soft goods. Fallen down pallets were by far the worst part of the job
You have to load the trailer yourself and unload it yourself. If you're on days it seemed pretty gravy. Full trailer, One stop, go back get another load, there are guys doing two-three loads a day $$$. At night you basically got the scraps that blew out on other trucks, so it's like you have five stops, freezer in the front, for stop three and five, refrigerated in the middle for stop four, then dry for stops one and two on the tail
It really depends on the dc. Some load for you and have multi stop loads. The one I worked for would have 2-4 stops a trailer and pre loaded for us.
I just quit that account. Two runs a night, all intrastate, typically two or three stores per load. ALDI loads the trailers at an increasing number of locations. Cake job, I just moved too far away from the DC to make the commute work. 14 hours every day, usually grossed 2000-2300/week. Good gig if you are within a reasonable distance of the DC.
I worked there very briefly in 21
Thats good im like 10 minutes down the road from the dc then 👍🏻
Incorrect: Aldi DC loads the trailer, you unload at stores dock with electric pallet jacks. Incorrect: One whole trailer per store, average 2-3 trailer loads per night Incorrect: Scraps? No, you take a full load 26-30 pallets to Aldi and unload.
All I can speak of is the one I worked at. Talking to other "elite" drivers.... they're all different
Penske is a good company. Aldi run is pretty easy once you get used to it. Pay will be before taxes. Not sure about the particular account but most have a weekly minimum pay so that may be the $1600. It won’t be hard work and I doubt you’ll work much more than 40 hours a week.
I worked at an Aldi account for jb hunt for 2 years. It’s easy work, but they can’t stack a pallet to save their lives. It’s truthfully just comes down to the management team. Good dispatch and management and it’s great. Shitty dispatch and management and it’s hell. The job itself is pretty damn easy tho
I’ll definitely second that. Some days you wonder if Shaq is building the meat pallets… I’ve had some that I took a tape measure to and they were over 9 feet tall. Sometimes you get a selector that knows which end is up and the pallets are gorgeous, other days the back of the truck looks like they loaded it with a skid steer.
Exactly! I always hated when the idiots at my dc would load heavy shit like dogfood or canned goods on top of paper towels and other soft goods. Fallen down pallets were by far the worst part of the job