Right, that's why even the biggest fleets, as well as owner-operators like me, are #####'n about CARB and DOT safety stuff. The really big money...
I'm often amazed at how a lot of ignorant American's trash San Francisco for being a place of weirdos (Yeah, like every truck stop lounge isn't...
All you non-Cali folks just don't understand that Cali don't need you, so stop hating. Right now, there's too many trucker hanging around, so I'd...
Well, just as the Fed has forced modernization on smaller states that used to have no driver's test, and flimsy paper driver's licenses with no...
The carrier business is a marketplace where the prices of freight are like the jagged saw of the Wall Street stock market indices. Bargain for...
I started out as an O/O during the bottom of this recession when I was having trouble finding a decent company driver job. I had just one year of...
Space is definitely at a premium even in my Volvo VNL 780 which has the most spacious sleeper cab one can get without going custom. I trained...
Here's the most unusual answer from a professional driver you're likely to have--one who has a college degree and understands the value of time...
Whoever told you this was a Walmart dreamer. Not even a portion of that money goes to Walmart employees. That $50- definitely goes back to the...
I've noticed that Walmart employees are paid pretty well at the DC and are loyal to their company. The beef I have is with the contracted labor,...
I don't argue with this sentiment, nor with the desire to make a few extra bucks with one's labor. I confess that most of the time, my unloading...
That's good advice for most Walmart loads, but this one didn't require the lumper fee. I'd be giving lumper labor for free. Sometimes I do help...
Ok you pitifully poor drivers defending giant Walmart, let's be mindful of the facts: Most Walmart OTR trucks are driven by fleet drivers with...
I notice that Walmart is good at explaining away their abuse of trucker time. Sort of like a phone company or big bank, they invent some "data...
I don't know, but it's not a distributor's business to put their expenses on their labor as if time was worthless. A lot of supermarket DCs...
Are you saying that a truck delivering 1 pallet could be grouped with a truck delivering 28 pallets, such that the one pallet truck has to wait...
I haul a reefer van. I'm not dependent on Walmart for anything. The point is, if I'm going to be unemployed, I'd rather it be at home than in...
I have yet to find a big fleet company or lease operator who isn't one step away from bankruptcy and the homeless shelter. Even OO don't make it...
I arrived at 12 midnight ready to deliver only to find that the Walmart retail drop of 7 pallets was actually a DC drop scheduled for 10am the...
I have to drop at a produce distributor in the Bunker Hill industrial Park Sunday morn, and rather than leave the city after del, I would like to...
