Wal-Mart Asks Suppliers to Give Up Control of Their Deliveries

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.

 

There is a big difference between "free enterprise and capitalism" and the bullying form of trade WallMart engages in.

 

It is their right as a corporation to protect their investors money and make a profit.

Are you know begrudging them that?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl1k5vLIApQ

 

Don't put words in my mouth.

 

Another unsubstantiated Union lie.
MOST people who work at Walmart ENJOY their jobs, their wages are commensurate with other similar local jobs.

 

For those interested,....Here is a great link...



http://walmartwatch.com/

 

Thank you walleye, very good!!!

 

LOL, nice biased source that promotes lies and false information. Nice try though Walleye, how about one that's not biased, doesn't receive funding from the Unions and isn't backed by the Unions. Your link is kinda like using Public Citizen, CRASH, or P.A.T.T. as a reputable unbiased source of information about the trucking industry.

 

Of course it's a biased source,...There purpose and is to help walmart employees take on the corporate giant and to post information for the public,..