Award Winning Owner of TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Sacramento Discusses Life As a Buggy Pusher

(I-Newswire) October 7, 2010 - Sacramento, CA. After his Duckpin Setting Career ended abruptly, Mark Snyir needed to find a new job in his hometown of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Times were tough. The Steel Mills had been closed, the local economy was terrible and jobs were scarce, unless in you wanted to spend your summer working at Kennywood Amusement Park there were really no options.

So Mark Snyir got a job working at Shop N’ Save Grocery Store. At the time, it was the biggest of its kind in his area. It had recently opened and had a bank, and a snack shop in it. His official job was “bag boy” with a starting pay of $4.35 an hour. Since Mark was still under 18, he could only work 4 hour shifts, and one of those hours was spent pushing carts that customers left in the parking lot. He was assigned the task of going to the stalls and throughout the parking lot and retrieving the carts and bringing them back to the front of the store. May seem simple, but, most people do not bring their carts to the stall. Instead, they leave them right where their car is. So once the cart man patrols the parking lot, they may end up with 15 to 20 carts that they are pushing at one time. Pushing them is not a problem, but steering can be a bit difficult.

As time grew on, just like a rite of passage for some, it became a contest to see how many carts they could push at one time. Obviously managers and supervisors did not appreciate this passage, so it was all done under the radar.

“To look back on it now, is hilarious. We would stand their talking for the better part of the hour, or go inside for multiple drink breaks, empty the trash or properly arrange carts in the stalls” says Mark Snyir of the Award Winning Movers, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK. “Then with 10 minutes left in your shift, you would start to line up the carts down the center aisle. We had to be very careful at this point not to block in customers’ cars. Upset customers would draw attention to us”.

Once the long line of carts were properly placed, the pushing of carts began. At any given time, a cart man could be pushing 50 or 60 carts. For the record, Mark once pushed 76 carts. Not that he was bragging. Pushing these carts would take time, and as everyone knows, the front street of the store is a high traffic area, so you had to be “full steam ahead” when you got to this point in your push. To make matters harder on the cart men, the parking lot was on a slope, so they had to push these carts uphill.

When the carts were across the street, then the cart man had to make a virtual 90 degree turn with this parade of carts in order to miss to the store front’s concrete beams and steer them down the cart return shoot. While this entire time, the cart man had to ensure the front cart never separated from the pack of carts or that could mean trouble. A runaway cart could hit into a person, or worse, a car.

When they steered the carts in the cart return, the proper turn was never executed properly, and was always met with a loud thud. This would then result in a stoppage of the carts going down the cart return. In turn, this would block the front doors to the store. So now customers would be trapped inside, until the cart man, or until a bag boy that had just witnessed what happened would come to the aid of the cart man and assist him in the executing the final turn of the carts.

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TWO MEN AND A TRUCK
Mark Snyir
8167 Belvedere Avenue
Suite D
95826
Phone : 916-852-7411