Schneider-WalMart Wintersville Ohio

Here is all I know about Wintersville.

1. There really is not a road made for trucks that leads to or away from Wintersville.
2. Don not take a shower at the terminal in Wintersville.

Hope this helps.

Raid3r

 

The Dollor General Account out of Zanesville, OH has some real POS trucks too. Some as old as 01-02s with 800+K. When I called about the job awhile back it was like you said it was slip seat, 34-38K a year. All night driving. I think it was 300-400 radius form the DC I beleive, their web site tells you everything about it. If your new to trucking there was some training required.
Hope this helps. It was to far for me so I went with Dollor General.

 

I was at the Washington Court House account. Lasted 2 weeks. Wal-mart dictates when the loads come out, then Green bay gets them, then they do the dispatch. Your DBL will not even know until Green Bay sends them. Get ready for alot at 14-18 hour days. This is from the time that you get up until back to bed again. You might get up at 9 and say that you are ready at 10 and get a load to pick up at 2 and get back to the yard at 4 the next morning. that was washington court house. if we were empty more than 60 miles from the oc after the 14 was up, we were told to stay where we were at and wait for dispatch before driving in. this way, not start the clock.

 

I ran out of there about 2 years ago.Lots of Pa back county running.The trucks aren't the greatest or the cleanest.And like someone said earlier don't take a shower there.You pull reefer and dry.I don't know if Wal-Mart is pulling all the dry yet like other grocery warhouses.You will drive day or night.You may start out on days then end up on nights.And to answer your question about Bedford,Pa is it's because of slip seating.It's the same at all SNI dedicated accounts.Drivers don't care about a slip seat truck.Only drivers that have assighned trucks take care of them.But you have to have 1million miles to get that.Money wise really depends on you how much you want to work.45 to 65k a year.Like I said,I ran out of there about 2 years ago and I hated it.Not the work but the showers there sucked.And running in Pa all back roads just took so much time between stops.30 miles takes about an hour to drive.Of course me not knowing the area contributed also.Now the facilities may be better now if Wal-Mart has their own drivers running dry because they have a little pull to get things done.Like I said its been awhile since I've been there.Hope this helps.

 

I see SNI is offering O/O the dedicated wintersville Walmart account now.

Curious how many miles you average on the wintersville account.

 

I run out of this DC been there for 7 years average miles for company driver are 1500-2000 owner operator probably 2100-2400 maybe 2500 on a good week. The top pay for company driver is 43.5 cents per mile and owner operator is 92 cents per mile with fuel surcharge that changes weekly can vary from 40 cents to 50 cents per mile depending on price of fuel. I would say owner operator is probably making about 1.32 to 1.45 per mile plus you get 15 dollars per stop on multistop loads. Your required to work every holiday weekends and night driving as well. They offer 5 and 2 schedules and 6 and 2 schedules and throughout the year around the holiday's they expect you to do 34 hour restarts and all that fun stuff. Yes even if your an owner operator. The place has lot con's and very little pro's. Management is okay at times but then are times when you just shake your head and say what was that a lot of micro managing going on and trying to run the truck from the bosses desk. Dispatch is done from green bay not locally so a 73 mile too stop load on their computer may say 5 hours but actually takes you 6.5 hours to run. And the place has a revolving door like know other. I usually wait about a year to ask someone thier name because by the time you learn it they are gone.

 

Allright so what's up with the showers, I have to know.

 

The bathrooms are nasty they are falling apart black mold and tiles peeling up not a very sanitary restroom at all. Jail and prisons have better facilities then we do they where suppose to remodeled them last April but I guess they didn't make enough billions to foot the bill.