Interesting conversation

I will say I've never seen a smiling wally driver.

 

Um, "more to the story" is the key there. A "Swift" driver going to Walmart, sounds kind of iffy to begin with. Walmart is KING today in the retail world, plain and simple, and you'd be a fool NOT to drive for them. If I was looking for a stable company job again, Walmart is the 1st place I'd go, followed by a food store driver.

 

What king makes you slip seat sleeper units.

 

Since Walmart is always hiring it would seem they also have a driver retention issue.

 

I don't claim they are a good company or a company I would work for.. Just that they are not as bad as they get a rap for. Fairly good working conditions. The pay is above the other mega carriers. Huge terminal network, that you can park at instead of truckstops , with free showers and laundry and most I've seen have food as well. There's worse companies to work for.

 

Oh I believe you brother, I can not contribute to that. I can only offer my perspective. Good for revenues, slow pay and sheeeet to vendors.

Plus I have hauled one contracted load for them. It was a sheet show from the beginning and still slow paid, numerous emails and phone calls into the 60 day range. I will tell anyone that!

 

Gods never thought id be saying this and cringe as i do so.......But honestly playing the devils advocate here...... as much as its fun to rag on swift. In general they arent a horible company to work for. The reason they are so visible when they have wrecks is how #### many of them there are. IIRC they have something around 30 or 40,000 trucks if you include O/Os and double that for short term onesie twosie loads. The next biggest carrier is i think JB with around 15k or so. Of course thats disregarding places like XPO who use a ton of smaller carriers instead of many of their own rigs.

When you consider just how many swift trucks and trailers there are compared to everyone else by such a stupidly huge margin your going to see a lot more of them. And with that many you see a LOT more angry drivers. Take someplace like say the company im leased to for example. We have around 25 company drivers and about the same in O/Os. Lets say that an average number is 1 in 10 drivers feel pissed off no matter the company per year and leave bad reviews just as a point of discussion.

For the one im at thats 5 drivers for the year. For swift thats 4,000 drivers. Which one is going to garner more attention? It makes swift look like a horrible company when in reality their about standard for a mega and at worst maybe only slightly below average.

Now that ive played devils advoate ima go throw up behind my truck.

 

I bet he got fired and went back to swift.

 

About a month ago Swift offered me a regional position where I would run five days one week with two days off and four days the next week with three days off. Repeat that rotation. $.80 per mile. 2400 miles per week, give or take a bit . Bonuses on top of that. Worked out to be about 97,000 a year plus.

There are quite a few old time drivers out there that Have been driving for them for years. If you get the right gig and they leave you alone, it’s not too bad. Of course you’re always gonna wear that stigma of people thinking you’re a brand new driver ready to bash into something.

 

Swift only changed it's rep when even the military was afraid to park by them.





Just a joke Swift drivers, don't go all Will Smith on me.

I agree with @Arctic_fox and his post. When your that big, and seen, your ####ups are much harder to not notice.

Far as the OP...I'm guessing dude that quit, didn't like the rules/way Walmart does things. What is the saying..."The Walmart Way". Think I've seen them use that term in the walmart threads. 1 week at a job tells me you didn't like something, or you ####ed up royally.

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