Walmart Detention

Walmart workers are told they have 4 hours to unload your trailer. If you have an agreement with your carrier or the broker then you can collect detention. Walmart does not pay the detention. They are too big to care. I hold stock in Walmart but I don't shop there.

 

Next time you go to a Walmart store, get in the express line and take two hours to put your twenty items in front of the cashier. Then fish in your wallet for another two hours getting your credit card.

 

When the lumping dude tells you how much, agree, but loudly state, in front of everybody that after 2 hours you are deducting 50 bucks an hour temp storage fee and if they don't have their junk off your truck in 4 hours, it belongs to you. If they don't release you from the dock, call police and state that you are being held against your will.

Works every time.

 

I'm curious. I live in NH. When a truck pulls in no matter what time they come over the loudspeaker and call for all hands on deck to unload it. Is it the same everywhere else?

 

In my i case I 'screw them' by not picking up their loads! I'm an owner-operator, I can pick and choose my lads, I choose not to deal with companies that don't care about my time!

 

Luckily my loads come FROM the DC and go to the stores. I feel your pain when I drive by as you're unhooked from the trailer and it's gonna be a while...

 

I've driven for 2 small carriers in the past 12 years and they both refused to take grocery loads from brokers,(dry van). some have slipped in, not told accurate info on the loads, then all hell breaks loose,lol.
also been banned from 3 Wally World DC's in the past,YEA!!!!!!!!!. one was, disagreement on whose time was right on my arrival., guy set his clock ahead 5 minutes. I set the brakes and took the keys out. refused to leave and make new appointment. got unloaded, sloooooowly, but got done.

 

A couple of years ago I had to go into a Wal Mart DC in Illinois, Mon morning.
Tornadoes had blown through Sunday night.
The DC had no power until noon on Monday.
Zilch
No lights, computers, nothing.
I thought I'd died and gone to hell.