Triumph Foods — Local services in Saint Joseph

The plant should be shut down and thoroughly sanitized for public health safety reasons. There's a lot of mold in between many conveyors the meat is running on. There's also cracks in the cement floor which leftover meat flows into and begins to mold and rot. The USDA inspects the plant but skips over these health risks in order to be on time with production. When the meat jams up on the conveyors, maintenance workers are allowed to touch the meat with their hands or foreign objects that are not confirmed to have been sanitized. This contaminated meat once freed from the jam is immediately packaged and shipped to recipients and grocery stores. There're many conveyor bearings that leak grease which come in contact directly with the meat, or drip into containers holding the meat that are later transported to a cooler. This is concerning as the conveyor belts are sprayed with water and bleach foam right before production begins which has caused condensation issues on the production floor with water dropping down on the meat before it is packaged. Another concern is many hard-to-reach areas and inclined conveyors are not thoroughly cleaned or inspected which leads to cross-contamination and mold build up. The production floor is only inspected randomly 1-2 times per week by the USDA which is alarming because this does not guarantee contact food areas are clean by the USDA's standards daily. Another call for concern is leftover bits of meat get trapped underneath the conveyor belts and sprockets which build up and fester in a continuous cycle over the work period. Numerous conveyor belts are not cleaned underneath leading to cross-contamination when the meat running comes in contact with the remnants. Only certain conveyor belts are cleaned from underneath every day. A majority of the belts are not cleaned from underneath properly at all, and a small portion are propped up and cleaned only once a week. There has been recorded instances of maintenance employees stepping on conveyor belts to perform repairs and leaving them contaminated only for the residue to be discovered after production has already begun. Overall, these issues should have been addressed years ago, but it is clear the company is more focused on profit, than the quality of meat being sold...

Very tedious here. I washed my trailer out before arriving. Got there. Guard shack was pretty patient and polite, I precooled my trailer as alwasy arriving to a place that needs reefer because it takes awhile to cool them when the inside is 100 degrees. Reefer was at the 3/4 mark but they refused trailer until fueled. Went to loves grabbed fuel. Went back to shipper dropped trailer. Appt was a window from 8 am-9 pm dropped trailer off at 4 pm(I was finishing a load in the am). Now, I do trailer checks for my company to ensure our trailers are DOT approved. I got permission from the office to do my trailer checks. (Btw she was very unpleasant to speak with but I explained everything it terms of speaking to a 4 year old and finally she understand I was just trying to check lights, tires, lines, empties insides and such) left the yard to go to the yard she directed me too. Was told by a guard dog I couldn’t be there explained I was just checking the trailer and that the office gave me permission and I should be out the yard in 20 minutes max( I just had to send in the pictures and macro for the trailers). He said okay well just finish up and head out I said yes sir and he left. a security guy came over in a truck and started yelling and cursing because it was private property I told him the same thing I was given permission and just checking and reporting on damaged trailers. He tried to say I was lying so I pulled up my Qualcomm and I showed him I was filling everything out and the pictures of the trailer. Well let me just say that he was really set off them. So I left the yard. Now, it has been well over 8 hours since I dropped off the trailer, got to the loves and no call for the trailer being done... out of hours for the day. Overall as a reefer driver just...

Overall it wasn't the nightmare that I heard it would be, but I swear one of their trailer washers was trying to pull an insurance scam. We backed in with a single movement, 2 feet away from the next trailer. I get out to see if we're close enough to the dock before dropping the trailer and they start accusing us of hitting the trailer next to us. Zero damage, not even a scratch, and we're 2 feet away minimum. I took a dozen pictures of both trailers and saved the video from our dash camera.

Our truck computer didn't show any rough handling despite being so sensitive that it's going back to the shop to tune it back and the camera shows a smooth backing in a single try. Driver was watching mirror all the way back. Neither of us felt anything at all since we pulled up short of the dock. No report taken so I don't think their safety person thought we collided either, but I will definitely save evidence. My first thought was she was planning on some insurance fraud, but didn't think it through. Or maybe drinking. I don't know and I don't care. I only care about being falsely accused of a colision. She kept insisting that we hit the trailer while she was inside it despite a total lack of evidence.

I hope to God we never come back. Like I said it wasn't as bad as I've heard, but a driver can't afford false accusations that hurt their business. There's thousands of other customers we could be dealing with. It's too bad because the rest of the pick up was really a...