Just wanted to give anybody interested some insight on how it was pulling Walmart trailers.
I guess a whole bunch of us got sent down there to the walmart dc in southern CA and got put on this dedicated walmart account.
We all got there with our tractors. They then sat us down in this orientation room. We watched a bunch of videos. They had the operations mngr do a class on safety/rules/procedures etc. We were assigned temporary driver id's, a load board and dispatcher.
Operations was a joke. There was 6 dispatchers and planners handling the entire dc. Treatment was ok (not great) and the right hand never knew what the left hand was doing there.Like, the BIG grocery store trying to be a full fledged trucking company. But even the slang was off. Like multiple stop loads are called "two stoppers" at walmart, and a drop yard a "center point" i was like huh?? The paperwork was confusing. The runs were short haul (most of the time) ...like 50-250 miles.
Were got payed salary.
$175 per day regardless of what you did. Could of been 1 load or 3 loads in one day. whatever.
All in all, it was cool. We got the kind of respect any truck driver would get. Like "we need you".
Walmart trailers are in really, really good shape. They even have a self inflating tire system.
Walmart drivers were conceded and try to "punk" outside drivers around. Most of them were older folk (no offense, my dad is older too) They even tried to school me on how to park a bobtail. ?
The yard dogs were actually the nicest ones there at every distribution center. really cool guys and very, very helpful.
Anyway, happy trails.
Knight Transport pulling 4 Walmart.
Discussion in 'Knight' started by Professional-Trucker, Apr 10, 2013.
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