Walmart bad and good

Well I delivered to Tomah Wi DC yesterday 11-28-10 and it only took them 4 hours, and they all do have some kind of a attitude problem especially the guards in the guardshack. Now I've been sitting here in Sterling Il at the DC for 3 1/2 hours so far and the guards have a better attitude but the shipping clerks are apparently all suffering premenstral systems this morning.lol

 

I Must say over the past 5 years wal mart has gotten a ton better with drivers and unloading.

 

i only do the dc's but i have to say i love them. even when its a live unload, they are very effecient and quick. only issue i ever had is the one down in bentonville didnt have an empty ready for me, so i had to leave and come back the next morning and they wouldnt let me park there.

 

I used to run wal-mart all the time at my previous job. It usually took them around 6 hours to get me unloaded. I didn't mind though it gave me time to get a really good nap in before I had to bust tail end again. The company I am with now we usually just drop and hook so I am in and out in 15 to 30 minutes. But when I have had to do a live unload it has still been 6 hours waiting. You just learn not to get into a hurry when you get unloaded...Lol

 

I have something GOOD to say about the Walmart DC's in Cleburne & Temple Texas. At both of these DC's all the people that worked there were very nice and polite to me. They also got me out in a very timely manner in under 2 hours at each location. So IMO all the DC's aren't bad.

 

A little polite-ness will usually help soften attitudes I encounter on the docks. Most of the time. I am fortunate enough to have an electric pallet jack with me on most of my runs so I don't have to pay and wait for the lumpers. There are some DC's that will not allow us on the dock so you're forced to use thier lumper service. $50 unload fee sounds like a pretty good deal to me. The most I've had to pay is $325 to unload 18 pallets, only 4 of them were partial breakdowns. Only took them 2.5 hours to do the job.

 

In most WallyWorld DCs, if ya stay any longer you'll have to file a "Change of Address" form with the USPS...

 

Whoever told you this was a Walmart dreamer. Not even a portion of that money goes to Walmart employees. That $50- definitely goes back to the broker or whomever is handling the load, who in turn is supposed to reimburse the driver for having put the cash out. If the driver unloads, then no cash is reimbursed, or if the company chooses, it may pay the driver for the unload. That's the lumper business, silly as it is.

 

We do A LOT of wal-marts(60% or better) and they are pretty consistant. We have a one hour window either side of our appt. we go in,call for the fifty and sit. most times it's under 2 hours,but sometimes as much as 4hrs. It's made me late to my next one more than once, but that's truck driving and more a schedueling problem at the shipper than anything to do with wal-mart. All in all, not too bad.

 

only one time was good because i flirted with this girl with crooked teeth and she broke down 10 of my pallets with one of those clamp forklifts for me. in olny il

thursday i waited over an hour in line at the gaurd shack