UPS or Cryo-Hauling/ Which Career Is Better?

True. And if someone has their foot in the door they would be first in line when something else like regional opened up. A company is going to take a good internal person before they hire off the street.
Next closest DC is Cocoa which is about 85 miles from Port St Lucie.

 

Cool, thanks.

 

I don't know what they make anywhere else and I don't even know what a "city driver" here is. We have 3 daycab trucks at my DC and those 3 drivers run the exact same loads I do as a "regional" driver. They go home every day and they make $90,000+/-. Technically I don't even drive our region which includes the area of more than a dozen DC's and probably a dozen or more states. I only service stores for my specific DC which is a roughly 250 mile radius of it.

 

It's seniority based at every Walmart DC. You also have to live within 65 miles of the DC to bid on open daycab positions. At some DC's on a good set run you won't see a daycab job with a driver less than 20 years or more seniority at the company. At my DC mostly newer hires are always driving the daycabs - it gets them home every day but it's not set runs and doesn't make near the money they could in a sleeper truck. Honestly all of the loads from our DC could be run with daycabs but sometimes there aren't enough hours to make it back to the DC every day. Every DC doesn't operate how we do. Drivers at general merchandise DC's truly run regional a dozen or more states in their 5 days hitting random stores every week. I hit the same stores all the time about a 100 of them in all.

 

Our navigation in the cab directs you right to the store dock. No guess work. But if you're unsure always double check with Google Street view. Some of our stores are a little tight but nothing too bad. If you've done any trucking in the northeast "tight walmarts" will seem like a piece of cake.