Family Dollar Account

Wonder job for some, especially in hot humid weather. Helps you to stay in shape. Me, I would rather stay fat and lazy. Glad there are some drivers who are not afraid of "back breaking" work. Not this "old man".

 

They don't really worry about getting new drivers.. they will take ANY drivers.. But you are correct that most experienced drivers will not do it. Its a TON of work and a horrible "threat envelope" for all drivers. It's a meat grinder. I had to advise several drivers to NOT take the account.. only to have some ops person "convince" the the driver to stay. I have nixed dozens of drivers who probably still hate me.. Most of them went to one of the other dollar accounts and were almost instantly damaged and terminated. Drivers do NOT heed warnings and they do so to their own detriment.

 

Yes. I ran Dollar Tree out of Berwick, Pa for USX for almost a year. For a competent driver it’s no big deal. You’ll put some work in on unloading, i recommend getting yourself a 4’ roller. It will save you time!! You can do 6+ stops in a day with a 53. The big difference from what you are saying and what we did, is that we would load out this afternoon & head to our 1st stop, spend the night there & start unloading in the morning.

you’ll still be able to pull it off grabbing your trailer in the morning if your stops are close enough.

as you get better/faster, you find that the store crews actually slow you down. You can stack rollers faster than three people can unload them lol.

i could unload a 53 with 3,500-4,000pcs in 1hr 15min if memory serves.