Wal Mart...Shame On You!

What's going to happen with this is that Wal-Mart is going to take over the logistics of getting the freight from their customers dock to their DC's. It may be on a Wal-Mart truck, or it may be on the same truck that hauled it before, only now that truck is being hired by Wal-Mart to deliver the load, not the shipper.

 

I have worked for a paving company before and they will pave the car lot thinner and less binder than the back of the store at many places.

Good point! That's the way I usually approach a store is from the back dock area and park on the side.

 

I still don't think they are going to have that much impact. Their private fleet isn't even big enough to do it's store loads. They pull trucks in from other carriers all the time.

 

Walmart in Aurora, CO has an area set aside for truck parking...and it's not bad if you can keep the RV's in their own parking spot. I have taken my 10 a few times at that one in Rochester, NY but I park back by the docks as close to the side as I can get so the delivery trucks can get in and out. Bradenton, FL does not like trucks to park on the lot, but they've never given me any trouble for parking while I'm bobtail. I think they just don't want loaded trailers in the lot...or trailers at all. There are a lot of tree islands in that lot.

Speaking of RV's...did anyone else notice the RV sitting comfortably in that lot on the other side of that truck bar in the photo?

 

simple solution:

Drive a truck that will clear a 12'6" obstacle. Then those 12'6" bars won't matter.

 

one thing to consider, is that the pavement may not be up to the task of an 18 wheeler, they may be sick of the more scummy drivers leaving trash everywhere ( pee bottles mainly ) they may have had damage done to customers cars by big rigs..


While i agree that provisions being made would be ideal, it bears investigation as to why the actions have been done, rather than just jumping up and down..

there may be perfect justification for anger, but there may be reasonable grounds also.

 

Probably not the right Wal Mart to go off on. Red X is where the picture was taken and red squares = truck parking.

 

The city of Dayton has been like that for some time now.... I know as far back as 2002.... If your not there to make a del or p/u then keep out.... The cops there will be all over you.

 

Then SOMEONE needs to recieve a nasty gram about it. There is no excuse for discriminating against truckers.

What the hell kind of ####### wrecker operator hooks to a truck with someone sitting inside it? Hell, they dont even hook to my truck when i call them until they wake me up by knockin on the sleeper. He could just hook up and shake the #### out of the truck until I get up, but they dont....

I agree. Scum is everywhere. I've met scum in several forms: White people, Black people, mexicans, african americans, africans, americans, mexicans, canadians, puerto ricans, detroiters, "FIPS" (michigan slang for ##### illinois people), people from benton harbor MI, people from baroda MI, wisconsin people, new york people, new jersey people, delaware people, loaders, unloaders, lumpers, walmart employees, walmart customers, walmat managers, truck drivers, 4 wheelers, the other kind of 4 wheelers, 2 wheelers, 3 wheelers, 42 wheelers, chinese, japanese, spanish, cubans, british, quebecois people, .............

the list, of course, goes on to pretty much infinity. Yes. SCUM IS EVERYWHERE. I've also met quite a few people I liked of every of the above listed folks. Even new york people, yes.