Just done a week on delivering to McDonalds resturants. Feel like i have been run over by a tank. 5 drops and you have to move the whole load around at each drop to get the frozen and chilled out from behind bulkheads at the front and then you get a bollocking when you get back for being one empty return cage short. The cages and the trolley wheels that the buns are on are all knackered and if i ever get asked to push another ton box of coke a cola syrup uphill again, that’s it. All in all a hard way to make a living.
did you get anny big macs for your troubles 
thought iceland and sommerfield were crap with multi loads then i watched a guy doing a drop at mcD s when i was having a 45 , getting run over by a tank sums it up. But its also a case of what youre used to it will get easier ,jobs with multi temperture prouducts/ deliverey points
can be made easier especially if you have stuff to take back.
look at your lines before you move try and plan ahead move stuff about as you go so youre getting to a drop and its just a straight drop.
its all in the preparation Honest
delboytwo:
did you get anny big macs for your troubles
or any free movie tickets?
scania245:
…look at your lines…
Hi scania245, See you; down here, we call them ‘delivery notes.’ 
Lines are what I used get for not doing my homework. 
Good advice though mate, it is all in the planning.
You get offered food at almost every resturant, it’s just the odd franchisee who doesn’t offer. You tend to have a muffin in the morning and something if you are still delivering at lunchtime. Almost without fail you have a drink at every drop, sick to death of there coffee. Hear what you say about planning your drops and it did get easier after the first day but it’s still if it’s in front of that bulkhead, you have got a lot of moving and securing to do. hard graft, particularly as you are starting most days at 1 or 2 in the morning.
been there aswell the boxes of coke syrup r a nightmare even worse when the wheels jam n the box falls off talk about a sticky situation ,havnt been back there for at least three years was u runnin out of basingstoke
I worked at McDonalds for 2 years when i was at school and i had to help out the delivery drivers a few times. Couldnt believe how much stuff even a small store like the one i worked at got on the deliveries! The big inner city stores must get an artic load each! You must have been knackered after doing it all day, i was after a few cages! The drink syrups were mentally heavy.
Another thing that i noticed is the design of the Mcds which were very poorly laid out in regards to getting delivery vehicles in and out. When the artic did turn up it would near enough block most of the car park!
You have any problems with this on your run?
I used to haul a lot of Superdeckers and double deckers for my last firm, 7 years of hard labour. I tell you mate, 2 floors to tip, and if you had two stores on, you had to load the empties after tipping the first store, (but as the superdecker and double deckers have the reefer at the front you have to load the empties behind the cold chain) then when you get to the second you might have to tip the empties to get at the chill, then reload it all again.
The superdeckers aren’t to bad as they have a floating floor, but the old double deckers have an internal lift and you can only get about 5 dollies on it at a time, and then you have to get the dollies off as the store wont help which means climbing down from the top floor every lift. Then on reload all the steel cages need to be pushed onto the lift 5 at a time, going over all the flaps on the internal lift and external tail lift with the wheel all locking up…
Look at it this way, keep you fit!!!
Sounds like a hard slog, but that said, there’s many on this forum who’d jump at the chance just to work, let alone push coke trolleys up to a shop.
A job is a job at the moment and those of us lucky enough to still have one should be grateful and hang on to it for dear life!
dieseldave:
scania245:
…look at your lines…Hi scania245, See you; down here, we call them ‘delivery notes.’
Good advice though mate, it is all in the planning.
well im back on onboard computers again dave (oh hark her)
edited to fix the quote - repton
Ex Haulier:
Almost without fail you have a drink at every drop, sick to death of there coffee.
Can you save me the free coffee tabs?
As said above - it’ll help you get fit!
TC
Almost without fail you have a drink at every drop.
Made me laugh that quote. I did 13 years on with the breweries as a driver drayman, and the second man used to have a jolly old time after every drop . Bloody hard work though, especially in the winter. Remember sitting on a keg in the back of the trailer one winter morning early nineties, trying to get some circulation back into the hands. All of a sudden all the bottles started popping due to the beer and juice freezing up. Can’t mind the exact year, but think it was one of the coldest registered for a while at that time.