Brundidge, AL parking (or lack of it)

that one is a little unique. the little truckstop is a dump too. I ended up sick with the flu when I showed up there one time and the ### running the truckstop refused to sell me a whole box of dayquill tablets would only sell them by the individual packet at a huge markup.

then I checked in at the gate 20 minutes early and ended up 8th in line at the receiving desk still on time. the girl could see me standing there clearly before my appointment time but was 2 minutes past by the time I got to the window. she put a big red LATE stamp on my bills. argued with her about it and she said if I had a problem with it I could just leave.

I hope before the day I die I see malwart taken down a notch or two by someone. somewhere.

 

Then, I guess you did not buy some of the candy for her kid's fund-raising project. Those receiving people are some of the SLOWEST office workers you'll see anywhere. And you're in trouble if they get involved talking amongst each other behind the window because most can not multi-task it seems, and the conversation has priority.

 

lol I didn't. screw their fund raising

I have an even more jaded view of them than most because in a previous life I spent 7 years working for them as a training supervisor at then DC6015 in laurens, sc. think they renumbered them and it's 6815 now. I know firsthand how screwed up they are and their views and disdain on the world outside of malwart. granted when I worked there was years ago. I started when mr sam was still alive. it was a different company then but i was also there when he died and saw the immediate change in their corporate culture and and attitude towards their customers and vendors as his kids fought each other tooth and nail for control. it literally changed overnight. we treated drivers like valued assets and partners when sam was alive but not after he died. I only do deliveries there now because I have no choice as a company driver. thankfully we have a lot less of them at my current company than I did my previous one.

new Albany, ms is a bad one for the behind the window conversations lol get there in the middle of one of those you may wait 30 minutes before they realize you're there and they have a job to do.

i'll still go across town to shop anywhere other than malwart even all these years later.

 

No clue where your next load is coming from?

 

Since you brought it up, yeah it shouldn't be on anyone's top 10 list. There's a QT with truck pumps just before Lawrenceville off GA-316, so I don't even use that crappy place next door to WM to top off reefer fuel before parking back home 30 miles away. If I get there at the right time I can satisfy my QT roller taquito addiction while I'm there. They did drop the apple iced tea from their fountain drink choices, so one less reason to stop there now.

Well, while I agree WM has their warts, this isn't unique to them really. Monroe GA does have one of the less friendly and no sense of urgency receiving windows in the system. On the other hand, at Harrisonville MO, Terrell TX, and Pottsville PA the folks were prompt and had great attitudes. Just depends, I guess.

 

This^

I remember when they first got into groceries, they were the best place to deliver to, nothing like the other grocery warehouses. No lumper fees, in and out, friendly. I went to pulling tanks for a decade, and I was in shock when I went back to one of their DC's for the first time. They made Associated Grocers seem like a dream receiver!