The Walmart skinny

Look, we get it. You HATE Walmart. $.38cpm, driver facing cameras, slip seating, just like Werner or another training company.

You're wrong.

Starting pay is $.46cpm. We get a $.06cpm bump on the weekends. We are paid on actual miles driven. Not pc miler city center to city center crap. 99.5% of our moves are drop/hooks of which we get paid $9.75 to drop and $8.50 to hook (or $18.25 for the whole evolution). In the rare circumstances that we have to live load or unload, we get paid $11.50 for the process + $14/hr starting after 45 minutes. If we break down, we immediately start getting paid $14/hr up to when our 14 is up. Then we get our $42 layover pay, and then after 10 hours, the $14/hr starts back up. Oh yeah, we get $42/night when we stay in the truck.

No, we don't have driver facing cameras.

The benefits are phenomenal and start on day 1. 401K, stock purchase plans, free life insurance, continuing education scholarships, discounts on EVERYTHING.

Yes, the slip seating can be tedious, but you learn to pack lightly. You are only going to be away from home for 5...maybe 6 days at the most. So there's no reason to bring 6 tubs worth of belongings with you. I have not run into any issues with filthy trucks.

The bottom line is that Walmart's private fleet is not like any other trucking company out there. I've run for more than a few of them. The way they dispatch is different, the computer flow is different, the logging system is different. The interaction with the office is different. I know a lot of the old-timers are complaining that it isn't the way it used to be. And it's not. No company is the way that it used to be. Freymiller used to blow your doors off with their large cars. Liberal and Dodge City used to look like truck shows with all the National Carriers trucks there. JB Hunt used to be an oilfield outfit. JCT used to have a company side. Walmart is no different. The times have changed, and Walmart's private fleet has had to change right along with it. And when you are as big and (what a lot of people fail to realize) as visible as Walmart is, you're going to have growing pains. Hopefully, this will clear up some of the misunderstandings.