It’s time to take the masks off

Hammerdowntrucker · Feb 28, 2018

345_Magnum said: ↑

OK, I joined that Facebook page and folks on there are actually quite civilized and not acting like snakes. However, almost all of them, including newer Walmart drivers are feeling quite bewildered and betrayed by the recent changes. Senior guys like me who'll never see a weekend again at my office if we bid a 5/2 and some guys with 15 to 20 years in who will be forced on the 5/2-5/3 and have to share or slip seat. The newer drivers are mostly left with the scraps that nobody else wants, and I'm not including the new hires getting .38 cpm. Not a really happy bunch regarding Walmart, but for the most part are very nice to each other.

And I noticed there are a boat load of drivers on there that I've known for many years, even some from my dispatch office. I spent a large portion of Sunday reading their posts and comments from the past couple of months and guess what? None of them have been forced on leave or disciplined by management for posting their true thoughts. Even the folks who've really trashed our senior Bentonville execs. have received no reprisals because they simply expressed honest opinions and laid out facts. However, the woman who serves as a page administrator did post over month back that she was compiling a personal list of everyone who was posting negative comments about Walmart because they were coming in more and more every day. No one at all seemed to have a problem with her doing that. At least she was up front about it.

When I joined the Facebook page this week, my real name and office was required because they only want actual past or present Walmart drivers and no trolls. That's the reason I know so many folks on that page. The reason I joined the Truckers Report Forums first a couple weeks ago was to find out if other Walmart drivers were as bent out of shape over the recent changes in the fleet as I am. Not to troll!

Bye the way, you are the same guy who started the thread, Walmart Driver Facebook Page!!!! in this section using the handle rambodixon. I know you are because your verbiage and tone are exactly the same. Plus, you only posted one time just to create that thread. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

I'm done.
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Western flyer · Feb 28, 2018

06driver said: ↑

No they do not.

New Wal-Mart driver is $.38 a mile, $9 per AR or HK ($18 for every stop) $11.25 for every live load up to 45 minutes and $42 a night in layover.

In addition they can earn 25 days off through their first year (21 PTO and 4 safety).

But hey you work here so what do we know huh?
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That's a whole lot of nothing.

06driver · Feb 28, 2018

Western flyer said: ↑

That's a whole lot of nothing.
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Okie dokie. Hell of a lot more than a Swift driver makes.

Hound3018 · Mar 2, 2018

Suppose to start walmart on March 19 but getting cold feet is it true your not allowed to eat or drink while driving?

06driver · Mar 2, 2018

No.

Voyager55 · Mar 24, 2018

topcat290 said: ↑

Create yourself a fb account and join be prepared to identify you are an employee. You will then learn who the snakes are at this company.
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Haha, the snakes in this company work behind desks, fly around in corporate jets, and give you a firm handshake and act interested when you have your grass roots meeting s, then go back home to Bentenville and laugh at you while they tighten the screws and kill your jobs!

DSK333 · Mar 24, 2018

Leave FeceBook and other social media sites alone, driver. They are cancer.

foggy · Apr 30, 2018

Coover said: ↑

Ok thanks for the heads up.

So no on swift paying more?

I'll be ok either way, but feel better hearing from you bro
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Pride goes before the fall Coover, in August and beyond you may have trouble just getting your pay straight.

foggy · Apr 30, 2018

06driver said: ↑

No they do not.

New Wal-Mart driver is $.38 a mile, $9 per AR or HK ($18 for every stop) $11.25 for every live load up to 45 minutes and $42 a night in layover.

In addition they can earn 25 days off through their first year (21 PTO and 4 safety).

But hey you work here so what do we know huh?
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You are right...they CAN earn 21 days but you have to run enough to receive them...as an extra board driver, don't count on getting the full 21 days..you are only eligible for them...

foggy · Apr 30, 2018

Western flyer said: ↑

I was all ready to read about another Walmart
Crash and burn story from another one of thier drivers.
I'm really disappointed.

If it you makes you guys feel any better,it's not just
The drivers. Walmart is cleaning house all the way
Down the line.

My next door neighbor is a manager at a Walmart
Supercenter. Been there 17 years.
They had 6 of them, now it's three.
He's been telling me about the cuts coming for
The past year.

There cleaning out all the long tenured employees.
Managers,drivers,cashiers,doesn't matter who.
Thier whacking off the top of the pay scale.
Everyone's on pins and needles at work.
There just looking for a reason to get rid of them.
He's sweating bullets about his job.

We talked last night. He said that all managers at
Walmart now have to be promoted within in 2 years.
If your not promoted in 2 years, you drop back
Down a level.
Doesn't matter if they have a opening for you to
Be promoted to or not.

You either go up or down. No more sitting as store
Manager for 6/8/12 years whatever.
If they have a opening a thousand miles away from
Where you live and you decline it,
Then kiss that easy salary position goodbye.
It's back to unloading trucks for you. Lol.

No more overtime,
Vacation pay cut back,
I've forgotten all the other things he's told me about.
Seems like every time I come home He's got more
Bad news to report.
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They just got rid of 4400 assistant managers company wide. The increase in profits are coming from bareboning cuts...not innovative marketing as they claim.

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