Walmart Detention

I would rather tarp a load in August in Laredo than work inside a trailer in Phoenix.

 

I spent exactly one evening for a period of 6 hours temping in our Walmart distribution in Searcy ARK about 10 years ago. A load of kiddie strollers come in on one trailer from Indiana and it got broken up into 9 more trailers to individual stores. That took an hour. In the meantime yard jockies were adding and taking away empty long haul trailers from Origin once those loads are broken up into a dozen or so trailers, sometimes less according to store order. Finally the store trailers fill up and wal mart company line haul go get em and go away to the store.

I was a lumper in my day what with the produce, meat, fish and so forth and stayed hard most of my life. But those 6 hours in that Distribution center was my last lumping tour ever. I have never dealt with so many loads in all it's possibilities to so disperse into so many trailers. It's crazy, reminds me of the old transfer docks back home and the reasons I got out of that. That night was a education. Did they say thank you? no, they said go away we are finished with you. Fine. I am too.

A little bit of me dies in life when bad people forget their manners and it's not good.

 

9 o clock is a epoch late in reefer time. Im more accustomed to 2 to 4 am because this is the product that will be out on the lunch menu of the local schools that day or into the butcher for dinner sales.

Dock people drive me crazy sometimes. There is usually one who minds the desk filled with papers for the entire operation and it's maddening to wait on him to shuffle everything and count everything. It's time to GO... but no.. that computer stuff is faster at generating volumes of paper for reading at slow speed.

Drop and hook, or otherwise run for similar to McKesson who ships narcotics one way, reloads directly then and there with bales of cardboard going right back to Memphis. That is where the Gravy lies imho.

 

Keeping the eye on running big mileage is a different issue. Your Carrier will collect extra money for your detention. However their rates will only trickle down to what a driver will receive. With this declaration by yourself...im on your side, feel your pain. The only way to work thru your debt load is to drive big miles to pay it off. Here, your being aggressively restrained. The model that does not promote the hard work ethic is a broken model. Hopefully, during this down time, your able to get sleep, workout and/or read a book.