Walmart bad and good

I've always had mixed results with Wal-Mart. My first exp. with them was the Loveland DC back in '97, 9 hr unload and that was with driver assist after 7.5 hrs. Normally it's 2 to 3 hrs, Sam's unloads are usually 90 minutes or less.

 

I've only done about 15 with Walmart. Never longer than 2 hours, and usually less than one.

 

Huh? And you went with it?

Can't say I really blame them...

Sounds to me that you're complaint is with Kraft!

Never had a problem with Walmart - not like every other POS grocery warehouse in the country. Don't get raped for hundreds of dollars in loafers - er, lumpers charges; and they are actually fairly efficient.

 

I frequent Walmarts alot. They are above average. Like many others, Walmart is a place of procedures. Follow them and everything is okay. Do something out of place and you have problems.

It's been long time ago, I hauled 3 identical loads of peaches and plums from CA to AL in a row. I forget which DC. Seems it was NW AL, not the SE ones. Anyways, it was before the $50 unload days. The first two trips they charged me $100 to unload. The third time I was short on cash and put $100 back.

I get there and they wanted $120 to unload. I was like ??? I didn't want to get a cash advance because as soon as I got unloaded I was getting paid back at the yard.

So out of the norm, I said I would unload. M I S T A K E!

Them pallets weighed about 2500 lbs each and it wasn't fun pulling them uphill in a reefer with a pallet jack. Then I had to break them down in half. I worked up a good sweat as I got about 3/4 of it off and broke down. It was about 2 hrs later, the supervisor says we're rejecting your load and started to put the freight back on my truck. I was Whoa! You ain't putting that back on my truck and stood in front of my trailer. He said I was taking too long. They made me pay $120 to get the remaining five pallets off. I was furious but had no choice but to get a comcheck and that work was for free.

They don't want you on their docks. I understand time frames but I would of been done in about 2.5 hrs. I been on Walmart docks 7 hrs before.

I haven't touched any freight since then and always follow procedures.

 

I'll unload WMDC load's if the load is multistop to multipul DC's and it's anything other than chicken of beef. Pocket the $50 for each unload plus stop pay for each stop other than the first and the last and got out of the dock in half the normal time. That was one of the best run's and paycheck's I ever saw.

 

Another driver told me the other day that all the money Wal-Mart collects for unloading ($50) goes straight into a pot for that DC's annual employee party. I found that hard to believe. Imagine how many trucks each DC unloads a day, times $50, times 365 days a year and that adds up to one heck of a party! Yup, still don't believe it. Maybe a portion of the money....but not all of it.

 

My favorite part about walmart is that that load better not be in the gate more than 10 seconds late, but it better not be there more than 2 hours early yet. So, you show up exactly 2 hours late, but you wait in line 3 hours. Now it's rejected. What the hell? Why do we put up with that ####e?

Thats bull. Also, supposedly it goes to a charity now. BULL. If it did, why charge it? BULLLL.

 

They will only call the police on me 1 time because Im not doing another thing for them!

 

The money goes to Relay For Life which Walmart heavily advertises to make them out to be angels. They say nothing that it comes from truckers and trucking companies. Either way it gets billed back to the shipper so they are doing the donating.

You could go even further and say the shipper increases the prices and it comes from the consumer. Then the customer stands at the Walmart check out and says how nice Walmart is for donating that $$$ being nonchalant that it's them doing it.