Dollar General Private Fleet?

We are hiring experienced Class A CDL Drivers to join our team. We have a fleet of brand-new 2016 Cascadia Freightliners. As part of Dollar General's trucking operation, you will deliver product from our distribution center to our stores where we fulfill our mission of serving others every day.


Driving Jobs at Dollar General

 

34cpm to hand unload at tight crappy little locations????? Not a chance!!!!!!

 

News about The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun

 

I could not do dollar general for a million dollars.

The ones in our area either get robbed while unloading or you have to back across a 4 lane divided into a parking lot flowing with cars coming and going on both sides of you while you are blind siding that side dock. It's impossible. But they have done it.

And when you do unload the thing and leave have you actually seen that space behind the dock the length of the store? Piles everywhere higher than a man. Disorganized for days. It's a wonder the store has anything on the shelf in a timely manner with a mutinous staff of maybe two.

 

I was a safety rep for one of the DC's for a large carrier... had from 150 - 250 drivers on the account at various times.. the first three months I was there, I trained / evaluated over 250 drivers...I stopped counting after that. The summer turnover is well over 100% a month. the job itself is brutal. For experienced hands who can drive well and know where all the corners on their trucks are at ALL times, it can be profitable.. for the average driver or the new driver, its almost always a bad deal and very damaging if not fatal to a career.. The accident rate there for my fleet was abysmal! A good month JUST for my account was 15 -16 accidents a month. I had months there with over 30 a month. Not many "real" accidents. mostly equipment and property damage.. A LOT of property damage! The DCs' do a very poor job at loading the trailers with freight on and on top of the rolltainers properly, the stores are usually cheap places that have been turned into stores that are on the cheaper/older side of towns. There are new stores that were built as dollar generals, but even they are laid out pretty poorly for truck access. pushing these rolltainers off onto the liftgates can be dangerous! If the rolltainers are loaded full of bottled water or bleach, they are way over a thousand pounds. Add some steep ramps or gravel.. and its terrible. The liftgates and the trailers are all pretty beaten up. The equipment is rather poorly maintained. You will have normally three stops in a trailer, after unloading the store's freight, you are normally required to load the empty rolltainers and dunnage that were left during the last delivery, Lots of strapping and load securement to work out. Can you make money with them? Sure.. I had some darned good people there.. but the account ATE a lot of well meaning people who just went into the meat grinder. Be wary.. be very very wary.

 

This article makes it seem as though yo ull only find these types of stores out in the downtrodden, backwoods areas.......nope.......they exist everywhere.....

 

Including downtrodden, backwoods areas.. the facts are that the vast majority of the Dollar Generals are in poor areas and are almost always in the older areas of town where they can get properties cheap. These areas are rarely truck friendly.