It seems as if there's no love lost for quite a few drivers/ex-drivers of goods going to Wal-Mart. What caught most of my attention is what will happen to the mom-and-pop size carriers that have a fleet of maybe 20 or 50 trucks and don't drive for Wal-Mart but drive for shippers of products going to a Wal-Mart DC. With those loads lost, it's going to be much harder for those types of companies to operate in this kind of economy, despite how much drivers hate Wal-Mart and its procedures.
Just to relate from experience, I don't drive a truck, but worked graveyards once unloading trailers at a Wal-Mart store. It's tough work because they don't palletize freight (or at least they didn't back then) and we'd spend 2-3 hours of the shift running boxes down a conveyor system (all human powered of course) and sort boxes from there. Dog food was the worst, as inevitably it would end up all over the place, but they didn't care. Whatever didn't make it one night was shipped again the next.
Wal-Mart Asks Suppliers to Give Up Control of Their Deliveries
Discussion in 'Truckers News' started by zfei, May 21, 2010.
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