Walmart salary breakdown

From what i understand Walmart pays you the way you should be paid. They pay you for everything you do...dropping a trailer, hooking a trailer, fueling, loading, unloading, spending the night away from home, spending a 34 away from home, pre trip, post trip etc... Everything you do gets you paid. Not like the Mega’s that might, maybe, if they get paid, pay you your detention. Or expect you to inspect, maintain, & fuel their truck for free.

I have never drove for them, but i do know a couple fella’s who have. At walmart it isn’t just how many miles you turn, you make your money in accessorial pay.

Not defending Walmart here, from what i’ve seen/heard/read over the last few years they ain’t worth the head ache. But i think the industry could learn something from their pay structure.

I know when i got my 1st job after leaving the Mega world...they paid us hourly from the minute we pulled onto a customers lot until the minute we pulled off. This was an hourly rate that quite frankly shocked the hell outta me. No b/s about them being paid or anything. This was for all pick ups and delivery’s. Plus we were paid an hour a day at that hourly wage for fueling & pre/post trip inspections. We also got X for every night spent on the road per week. Paid vacations, an attainable yearly saftey bonus, and a basically unattainable fuel bonus.

Imo. The megas just take advantage of you, and you should of them! Get that year, complete your contract & gtho

*ok i know i went way left center. My bad

 

How long are their trips? I guess average is several days if they pay so much for nights away.
Then why is it a bad job if they pay is so well?

 

Walmarts trips? I don’t know. Like i said, i never worked there.

Why is it a bad job? Use the search feature on this forum and you can then draw your own conclusions as to why.
As for me: driver facing cam, micro managed, slip seating, the abuse i’ve taken at there DC’s over the years, etc...

 

Walmart is not the “sweet job” it was 8+ years ago but a lot of that statement is based on how I’ve come to learn in my research and I will supplement that with, I think “old school” Walmart fleet drivers were “spoiled”. They paid them too well [by industry standards] to be able to do that into perpetuity. So they came back to reality. Pissed off a lot of drivers. Trashed their reputation. And made it hard to gain the desire of others.

 

I thought they did away with that .38cpm nonsense a few months back and went back to the old pay scale. A lot of guys quit and a they couldn't get new drivers.

 

I've always wondered, if Walmart is so great a place to work - why are they always hiring new drivers?
They should have a stable and content driver base with near zero turnover.

It's not like there are new Walmart's popping up all over the place any more to require a steady influx of more drivers.
And do they really treat their truck drivers that much better than the store employees?

 

That's only before Wallyworld does it's famous rollback pricing.

 

If they’re rolling back christmas presents and stuff that’s definitely coming out of a drivers check lol. I’ll stick to being independent amd passing those slow ### mega’s

 

I wonder if your paid for all the time you spend documenting all the piecemeal accessory pay.
$9 dollars for this and $12 dollars for that.
I'd rather be paid per mile traveled and hourly for all on duty time.

 

No starting is 46 cents a mile plus 6 of you work all weekend.

Accessorial is roughly $19 a stop for every stop. That is the DC, the store, the vendor, back to DC. It is roughly 9 for arriving, 9 or 11 for leaving. $42 a night for layover.

It is fairly easy to do 86k in your first 365.

Now you will be extra board, you will not have your own truck. You will begin and end every week at your home DC.

Except for peak (November, December) you will have two full days off a week. Peak you will work 5 and a half days.