Walmart

Massive amounts of retirements coming up. The Walmart fleet has always been an older fleet due to the requirements to get hired. Thus, they are now running into difficulty getting enough qualified appllicants to fill the large numbers of openings either existing or coming up.

There is a large segment of the truck driving population that know very little about Walmart Transportation short of myths. Just look at some of the silly stuff that is posted on this site about them. Thus, there is a large pool of qualified drivers that they just have never reached. There are a lot of great drivers who would love to work for a company for good pay, little stress, and great treatment.................... they just didn't know it.

I know at my husbands DC (Buckeye, AZ) they have had quite a few retirements with more to come. That is why the GTM was looking at getting incoming transfers and if that didn't work, doing a general hiring. Buckeye rarely hires, and the hiring they did 2 years ago that my husband got hired on was their first in 6 years.

 

They been running that 75+K add for over a year.Something doesn't add up. Sure the webb pumpers will be along and say how great of a job it is.But it still doesn't make sense.Good companies never have to advertise for qualified drivers.

 

I agree with you but I think that qualified drivers are becoming harder and harder to find.

 

People that don't work for Walmart Transportation, or never have, have a hard time believing what a good job it is. Also, until folks start working there, they really don't believe it themselves. Drivers are so used to being treated like stupid garbage that it is almost unbelievable that a company would treat them as valued employees who deserve nothing but respect.

The doubters can write off everything good said as internet fluff, but the reality is we have no reason to lie. What, as the wife of a Walmart driver, would I have to gain by lying?? What we are trying to do is help to alleviate the mistruths and myths that have been associated with the company.

Is it the perfect job?? No, as there is no such thing. Is it one of the closest you will get in the trucking industry?? I can honestly say yes. My husband is going on 2 years in, and still can't believe he is working there. He is relaxed and happy. He has become the man he was before his X job sucked all of the life out of him.

Now do understand, this is our opinion. You will always find the grumblers and complainers who just can't get over the fact that things do change. The reality being, most of them have forgotten where they came from. Everyone in my husbands hiring "class" feels the same way.

Fuzzy, yes, good qualified drivers are harder and harder to find and Walmart is needing more and more of them. Some from growth, but a lot from retirements. Walmart Transportation's actual turnover sits at about 4%.

 

I will also add that there where hundreds of applications submitted recently to the DC I work out of. By the time the interviews,road test and back ground checks where done 6 where offered jobs. Three of them started orientation today the rest soon as they still had some paperwork holding them up.

 

What are walmarts requirements?

 

I was told ar Hopkinsville DC 3 years/150,000 miles clean. Anyone know about thd mysterious road test l have read here that so many don't pass? Thanks!

 

I was told at the Hopkinsville KY DC doing a drop & hook there you need 3 years/150,000 miles clean. Anyone know details about this mysterious road test l have read here that so many don't pass? Thanks!

 

Even for non-driving positions at the distributions centers (DCs), the hiring process is extremely competitive, to say the least. Walmart employees all get first dibs to be hired internally for any position before it even gets advertised to the general public. When it is, the hiring process is vigorous and includes multiple interviews, background and criminal background checks, credit check, reference checks, a personality assessment, and a physical ability test, which includes sit-ups and measuring upper body strength, as well as the ability to move weighted containers up to 55 pounds across a room and stack them on platforms of different heights.

Folks who get ordinary DC positions are squeaky clean and thoroughly vetted.

Keeping that in mind, can you imagine the selection process for drivers?
All of that, minus the physical assessment (most likely) probably knocks most drivers out of the competitive process, never mind the necessary spotless driving record, non-job-hopping, not flaky, out of shape, or any of the thousand things that can sink a driver for a job.

It's not just three years, a clean driving record and 150,000 miles, there's much more to working for
Walmart than meets the eye. Much more.