Can't reapply for 1 year ?!?

Puppuller 57 · Aug 8, 2017

buddyd157 said: ↑

i too "see" a future of cost cutting and profits rising for the owners of wally's world, by elimination of some things, like thier fleet for instance. i personally see the fleet as not a profit maker.

with "some" of the big wrecks they have had in the past and the payouts, it takes a longtime for a business entity to recoup those loses. wally's world drivers are not always as courteous as some want you to believe they are. i have had personal experiences on my night time job, to be nearly pushed out of my lane, as i am approaching an exit on ramp to the highway.

i have had a few wally's world drivers try to pass me in a construction zone, as i am doing the speed limit thru them.

they are clearly to me, not god's gift to highway safety, yet so many drivers brag about wanting to be one of 'em......

been at this game for over 35 years, seen many stupid drivers form what are sometimes called, "the best of the best".....what a bunch of horse puckey that is....
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The best of the best is no longer true. They are hiring much less experienced drivers than in the past.

haz-matguru · Aug 8, 2017

BackIsSore · Aug 8, 2017

haz-matguru said: ↑

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Is that you? We need to get littleguytrucker here to make videos of driving at Walmart.

haz-matguru · Aug 8, 2017

BackIsSore said: ↑

Is that you? We need to get littleguytrucker here to make videos of driving at Walmart.
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I'm suprised he's even doing this. And littleguytrucker was one of those youtube job hoppers I was talking about. How can one give advise to new comers if they ain't been any where long???

Puppuller 57 · Aug 8, 2017

BackIsSore said: ↑

Is that you? We need to get littleguytrucker here to make videos of driving at Walmart.
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Hopkinsville driver.

BackIsSore · Aug 8, 2017

I'm surprised also. I don't think he'll get into trouble though in today's wm as long as he doesn't violate our cell policy.

foggy · Aug 8, 2017

haz-matguru said: ↑

Typo, but yea dave's western star is a 3 mill gift. And no its a fine knife I tell you. I've skinned a many of deer with it! They also gave other gifts and said I had to pay taxes on them. I've never had that happen at any outfit I've been with. But it's just the right thing to do. So know worries
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Did you note the taxes you paid on the knife??

windsmith · Aug 8, 2017

Radman said: ↑

You can make more at Saia or Old Dominion doing Linehaul and be home a lot. Walmart you have days off during the week when you start until you build seniority. Friend went to Walmart his days off are during the week. I have friends that are off on the weekends now on a schedule only took a year of extraboard at Old Dominion. Making 90k-100k+ home everyday weekends off.
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Yeah, but what's his start time?

Radman · Aug 8, 2017

windsmith said: ↑

Yeah, but what's his start time?
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9pm-12am senior drivers of course do the day shift. Forgot people on this forum don't drive nights.

Chewey2 · Aug 11, 2017

x1Heavy said: ↑

Ok. I will offer a little bit of information. Crossing a yellow line is a sign of either nervous like you stated or poor management of a 18 wheeler. There is a level of precision that is demanded of drivers of big trucks.

I tell you two to forget walmart. let it go. You will run into companies who will tell you not to come back again for a while if ever.

With that said... anyone who is new to trucking faces a dangerous time. I have said over and over that the first year at a minimum is really a problem for new hires to the industry. Preventable damages etc generally get many dismissed and then reported to the DAC reports which is used by the majority of the industry to weed out anything from say... unauthorized use all the way to ESPECIALLY theft and drunken, assault etc. Some ban drivers 5 years at a minimum. For some of that used to be ban for LIFE from trucking but recent years DAC has loosened a little bit.

Not anyone is going to hand anyone a 150,000 dollar tractor, a 50,000 and up trailer hauling god knows how many tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cargo if not outright million plus. Not without a careful check.

Now that I got that spiel out of the way, I say this. Any company that stuffy to toss anyone trying to work and tell you not to come back for a year like walmart did... they are hurting themselves. The reason they can do this is because for every driver on the road, there is 50 to 100 more filling applications every day. As long that pool of potential hires seek employment in large numbers, companies can choose the cream of the milk and toss the rest.

Let it go. There are thousands upon thousands of companies out there.

Finally the money. It is way better to have a bird in hand rather than buying feed for two in the bush with money you don't have. The trucking industry and the life style you will be doing for weeks and months at a time is a form of expenses management. You can literally eat yourself out of house and home or spend it all in 1 hour at the casino in vegas. Things like that. Nothing in trucking is a sure thing.

So, if you and yours are working a stable work, whatever the money income is... it is stable. Trucking IS NOT stable. You can run ragged one week, spend the three days off sleeping too tired to spend the pile of money, burn through that in the following week waiting on a 1000 mile haul that requires a day to load and another half day to unload for a pittance. It pays nothing hardly. And let's not get into the holidays where the United States dries up and everyone literally goes home. Nothing moves for a while.

If you cannot sustain a life style you want on the money you have earned this year, you must consider leaving and living somewhere else easier on the finances (Cheaper.) People do that all the time. I did. Maryland is ungodly expensive for anyone stuck in minimum wage or other types of work that vaporized in the 90's Arkansas, I can and did have a house and a few acres of land on hardly nothing each month once paid off. Thank god. It's not that bad.

Good luck.
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You nailed it brother...you are exactly right

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