Is walmart the holy grail of company driving?

NO

Maybe it is the holy grail of the bottom feeding driver mills though.

 

There is no perfect job. Some are just better than others. It's what you make out of it.

 

Some guys say the "Holy Grail" is driving for Walmart, some say it is Old Dominion, and others say it is UPS. I quit an $80,000 a year non union driving job to take a $70,000 a year union driving job. Why? Because I think it is a better job. rather then pound out 2000-3000 miles a week I am lucky to get 800-1200 a week. I am working A LOT less for a little less money.

 

This is very true.

 

I've heard you have to be a Jedi to even be considered at Wal Mart !

 

A company that will fire you for using a headset is not the holy grail of anything. Also 63 mph trucks, being away from home? Bah, they better be paying way over six figures for me to even consider putting up with that.

 

Is the grail itself holey? In that case I don't think it holds water.

 

Back when Sam was alive, that may have been a good gig. But you can bet the squeezing Walmart applies to vendors nowadays is also applied to the in-house vendors, i.e., trucking. And trucking under the thumb of a pencil pusher leaves much to be desired.

 

No, they are the king of micro management and arrogance. To a driver who has worked at a low paying mega carrier job, yes, it looks great. More and more managers hired by Walmart Transportation have been hired from other mega carriers with the high turnover culture, so it is no surprise they are seeing the turnover rise to historically high numbers. To me, the amount of income is not as big a factor as job satisfaction. Walmart Transportation is the only employer in my 30 years of working in which I had to file a change against to the EEOC for violating the law.