How come everyone isn't driving for Walmart?

The company asks three things.

Be safe
Be legal
Be professional

You can't do that?

 

Those three things don't seem to complicated.

If your directing your question at me, Yes I can... I have no desire to go shopping at Wal-Mart or working for Wal-Mart

 

Be safe be legal ppfftt Tell it to Tracy Morgan. Thanks for the post thou I'm glad to hear I am making more then wal mart drivers. Wal mart van driver a step down indeed, some of us don't fancy going down the ladder that should answer your question.

 

Walmart pays good. That's it. That's where it stops. I used to think they were the premier company to drive for, but the insane micromanagement and back stabbing, you can get that at any other mega carrier. If it were strictly about money, then yes, go to Walmart. If you're looking for quality of life as well, look elsewhere, because you're not getting it there.

People seem to think because they're the biggest and they have one of the better pay packages, you'll be treated as the professional that you are. This is not the case with Walmart Transportation, as many ex Walmart drivers will attest to. When it comes down to it, you're just like any other "associate" with Walmart stores. You're controlled, you live, breathe and sleep Walmart. No thanks.

 

Don't take this the wrong way... but after 14 years you have been fully assimilated into the collective. Not sure any amount of therapy can bring you back to reality now.

 

You'll note from my posts I've never said we're the best, or the most highly paid. You are right it's not for everyone. My boss might disagree about me being " assimilated". I push back harder on issues than most. But I go in with logic and reason, they listen, and sometimes I win, sometimes they do.

 

And is that driver working for WalMart anymore?Did the company take responsibility for the accident?

 

What did the company do wrong? They allowed drivers to live anywhere they wanted, as long as they reported to work rested and prepared for a full days work. The driver wasn't " on call" , he knew which day and at what time his week started. What he did, driving his personal car from Georgia to Delaware may have been legal, but it was neither safe or professional. Now, drivers must live within 250 miles of their work location.

 

Some of you Internet experts make me laugh... I heard this, I heard that... I never shop there, blah, blah.... there is no more back stabbing amongst drivers than there is anywhere else. Some of you must have great jobs to woof the crap I have read in this thread. Then again, it is easy to be know-it-all when you are a screen name. Yep, believe everything you have heard.

 

They ran radio ads in DFW area for about the past two years.

Ad said 96k per year and home four nights a week.

Must have 3 years drive exp, and spot free record to qualify.

Used to hear that ad at least 3 times a night on my commute home from work. It's what made me finally get in gear, and find a place to get trained and saddle up to get my time collecting.

That along with random signs all over town with ads for 60-80k home every day, with 2-3 years exp etc.