Thought I was going to die delivering for Family Dollar.

Some guys brag that they're home every night, no highway crazies and DOT problems.

I did this kind of hand trucking for a very short time once. Some days the truck had no ramp and I had to carey the boxes to the rear and climb down and pick them up again to load them on the hand truck and climb 6 flights of stairs.

I salute the people who do this work, because it means I don't have to! I will gladly stay away from home and put up with OTR challenges not to be doing that work. Oh, and my 16 hours days were being paid a whopping $11/hr to hand bomb 30,000lbs per day.

 

Before I started driving I used to unload trucks for Walmart. A store. Not a DC. Anyhow. The trailers would be floor loaded and we would use rollers to get the freight out.

I was paid $8.40 an hour to do such a job and it would take a team of four or five of us two hours to completely unload a 53' trailer.

Everytime I drive by a family dollar or dollar tree and see a driver out there I feel for him. When I used to "throw" the truck at Walmart I had a team of co-workers there to help me. I can't even imagine having to do that all by yourself.

Whichever accounts use the roll tainers... That's where I'd try to get on if I had to do this kind of work.

I'd go back to beverage delivery with my trusty hand cart before I went back to unloading floor to ceiling loaded freight on rollers.

unloader

 

Family Dollar, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Dollar Store............

You haul a lot of Dollars but make none yourself

 

So 200 per trailer and 46 cpm is no money?

 

It's a figure of speech but if you feel like your time and well being is worth that little then more power to you.

 

Throw in 5k sign on bonus paid out over 1 year, $100 month for my school loan while employed, and within 2 days of home in an emergency... I guess so. I don't like just sitting in a truck. I need to be out moving. Work is work is work my friend.

 

@BostonTanker good point !

 

Try doing 3000 a day at 45 years old and having the young guys telling others that the old fat guy was trying to kill them...LOL

 

Wow, a 5k bonus or $13.70 extra a day for a year. Makes no sense to me?
I believe that if a company has to offer sign on bonus, they are not worth their weight in salt. Think about it. If a company was that good, they wouldn't have to pay drivers to work for them. They would have a stack of applications by word of mouth alone. The reason they offer a sign on bonus is because they can't keep drivers.
This is really not that hard of a concept. Look in any truck magazine and see who always has an ad in them. I'll bet that most have some type of sign on bonus. That's a huge red flag to warn drivers to stay away from them.

 

That's a insult pay, $100 enticing you a month is not worth it, Plus the 5k lol...killing yourself brother for peanuts. Want to be active, Go do LTL or Food / Beverage.
Your'e very welcome to be a part of the LTL / Local Section.
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