Swift Beats Greatwide for the Walmart account

Let this be a lesson to all. The big carriers like Swift will always underbid to retain customers like Walmart. Sounds like Swift is trying to make the Walmart dedicated look like a regional gig with what DC Cab has said for the company drivers. As for the O/O's it does surprise me. I'd bet money that Swift is making is getting paid around 1.50 a mile if they can afford to pay the o/o's 1.28 a mile.

KH

 

It was sort of like that when I was on Wal*Mart 3 years ago. We were running day cabs through 5 different states. With the addition of the new WM accounts and seeing a lot of single bunk Volvos heading out for them, it does seem like a more regional deal.

 

That is the name of the game these days. Label it as dedicated for O/O's and regional for company. It does not surprise me that Swift is paying for the third stop and onward. It is sad but it is how big companies make their profit.

KH

 

97.5cpm plus FSC, right now it adds up to $1.285/mile. .5cpm additional for longivity up to 99cpm linehaul. FSC is figured from the price of onsite fuel, which usually runs about 35cpg less than truck stops. Stop pay: pickup, return to DC plus one store are included in linehaul. So, a load going to three stores will pay for two stops. $20/stop for L-O/O. Detention pay is still paid after two hours, same as always.

The DCs in Florida and Alabama will be the same concept as here, at least for now: Pick up a load in a Walmart trailer, from the DC, going to one or more stores. When empty, return to the DC with the empty trailer. Despite the trailer being empty, return miles are paid at the same rate as loaded miles, including FSC. Occasionally, there will be backhauls. They are paid as an added stop with whatever extra routed miles go with it.

Since the runs go out to stores and then return to the DC, then, yes, it is regional work. Shorter runs are generally given to the daycab folks, I have no idea what their rate is. I believe it is hourly and the daycab folks here at this DC are very happy with it.

An O/O or L/O who can run a business and keeps his or her foot ot of the fuel injectors can easily make 7.5mpg, especially in an area as flat as Florida, since nearly half of the run will be with an empty trailer...although paid at the higher loaded rate plus FSC. In these hills and mountains up here in the Northwest, I am averaging 7.2mpg and I've been idling a lot due to high pollen counts. With this kind of mpg, a L/O, still making payments and putting away 10cpm can put over $1,000 in his pocket at the end of the week, after running 2,600 miles. Then go home for a day for a reset. If the same driver decides to not put money into a maintenance account, that means $1,260 goes in his pocket. No truck payment because it's owned outright? Another roughly $500, for a total of over $1,700/week.

O/O tractors will have to pass the same inspections as any tractor being leased on to Swift and will have to fit the same criteria: 5 years old or less, or have had an in-frame service done. It can't be a beat-up POS-looking pile of rolling junk. And it has to pass Swift's quarterly inspection.

Generally, trailers can be parked behind whatever Walmart store is in the driver's home area. There are three places I can park my trailer when I go home. I go home in the middle of a load, stay for two nights, get my reset and then deliver the empty trailer to the DC to finish the load. It even worked this way when I recently took six days off.

Again, I have no idea what the company guys are getting paid, but they all seem pretty happy here.



Check my information, Rug. Only check it with someone who actually knows. Not some buddy who is a driver and who is listening to all the rumors at the Liars' Table because he doesn't have anything better to do.

 

Swift doesn't get paid for those stops either. It is standard Walmart contract. I will tell you the same thing I told Rug: When you have actual, real information, feel free to contribute.

 

Ahhhhhh. For L-O/Os, I see. I know you're not worried about company drivers and their pay, but they get stop pay after the 2nd stop.

It isn't hourly. They get paid a flat rate up to a certain total mile. That rate goes up another $50 in the second mileage tier. If there load exceeds that second tier, then it goes to a /mile rate.

I'm assuming your referring to me. I don't go off the hip. I've always been someone who only says something only when I know it. I spent a year on a Wal*Mart account so I'm not just some outsider to it. If I'm mistaken and it's shown to me, I have no problem admitting, but I don't just spout off without knowing. If you're not referring to me, then I apologize.

 

No dog in the fight but I thought Wal-Mart was requiring APU's for outside carriers.

Are they and would it be a requirement for a L/O?

 

I was referring to this:

And it's not that I don't care. It's that I don't know and I'm not going to sit here and talk out my arse.

 

I think we're saying the same thing, just in a different way. The final drop at the DC is counted as the last stop. Therefore, if you drop at three stores and then drop the trailer at the DC, it would pay for two stops.

No. Walmart is not requiring APUs on contracted carrier trucks.

 

Kudos! Lolol.

We may be saying the same thing.