We picked up a Wally contract for a while as they're refreshing some stores. (Final mile coolers, refers, and kitchens for their bakery) I'm actually surprised that a certain Wally in mid Jersey has become very truck friendly. (Or at least the ban hammer hasn't swung yet.) my company brings in two trailers a night, plus Walmart's internal fleet coming & going. But I've counted as many as 15 units in the area. Now, there's an adjacent big box sporting goods place that went under and they share a pretty large lot. There's also a Lowes further down and they share the service road to the docks. So drivers are pretty creative about not being seen from the street. Also there's 3-5 restaurants there so people might only be on their 30's and not their 10s. Also, has anyone noticed that most Walmarts have resorted to using dropped containers for extra storage? I thought it was a holiday or a construction thing but a few receivers I've talked to said they're so jammed in the back room they just started spreading to the connexes. Some of these boxes are so randomly placed I think they're in violation of the fire code. (Fire trucks need access.) a truck can be moved, a container on their ground? So that's a problem Wally's bringing on themselves.
From the article: Find out where this guy lives. Park your rig at his house. Bring a copy of the FEDERAL HOS rules. Tell him to take it up with the Feds.
Yeah, I got carried away. (Besides, we have moving trucks. I can go anywhere. Most rigs can't get into residential neighborhoods. I've put them in driveways!) Also, this is one store, AFAIK it's not national policy.
Stopping in a bobtail for 15-20 minutes to grab a few things is one thing, but turning a Walmart parking lot into a truckstop is a whole different scenario. Face it, a lot of truckers are downright pigs these. ####ting and pissing between their drive tires, dumping out piss jugs, garbage etc. I don't blame Walmart one bit.
I would pay 5 bucks or make an equivalent purchase, and not a penny more, to park for a 10-12hr rest break at a walmart IF they provided painted lines, some trash cans, and had enuff turning radius to get in and out like they do at the walmart in scranton, PA. If on the other hand, it's like the wally's in CT I park at... you can park but no clear spot to park, can barely squeeze in and out between the rvs... I ain't paying for that! I park, sometimes buy stuff, not always tho... then leave the next day.
Boy, did you swallow the Koolaid? Sit up straight and spit out the rest. Sam got his start with his Daddy throwing families off their farms during the Depression. As with the 2008 “crisis” (manufactured) 10-MILLION Americans has homes foreclosed. Both times it was to allow banks to buy improved property for pennies. It was NEVER necessary to save the banks. WalMart has driven tens of thousands of American businesses out of existence. Sam Walton paved his road with the blood and sweat of your fellows. And helped reduce rural America to slave wages and welfare. WalMart has NEVER paid its own way. Welfare for white working boys is WM and Dollar G. Real wages have been cut more than 50% since the 1970s. You (we) can’t afford anything else. Wake up. .
Does it happen to be in Middlesex county? If so I know the one you’re talking about. Don’t mention the name of the city don’t want even more people parking here. Locals use that Wally World to park 1-2 days while they’re home. We respect that Wally World and never drop trailers there and make sure to let the manager know if we’re going to park more than 2 days. It only takes a few idiots dropping their trailer and leaving it there for weeks to ruin it for all of us.
The city I used to live in had a dispute with Wal Mart over land acquisition when they wanted to build a super center. Wal Mart was on the edge of town and they checked into buying land one mile down the road in the county. The city did not want to have the lose of revenue, made a deal with Wal Mart and they stayed in the city limits.
you assume life for rural americans was rosy pre-depression. that was a long time ago. people still died from simple infections, kids got paralyzed from polio, we had little electrification... clothes were washed by hand, no car to get to town quickly... sure life might have been simpler for rural folks back then, but was it really so glorious and so much better? maybe for the tenant farmer who owned his land, but what about the masses of farmhands who didn't own squat and had to work for low pay? I imagine their descendants populate the walmart checkouts now... I think a good bulk of the people has always struggled to get by, and I'd wager that those people do better now, live longer, and slightly healthier, than they did before. hell, I know my grandparents grew up dirty poor... WWI for my dads folks in east europe, and the virginia sticks for my moms folks... no way josé can you blame walmart for so many of america's woes. and I gotta put this out there: in my experience, "small businesses" don't pay great wages either!!! minimum wage, buddy! but then again, a grown adult is not supposed to work minimum for a living... they, in theory should go to college, go to trade school, and trucking counts as a trade for that, do anything other than dawdle along at minimum for decades on end! ok ok that's enuff ranting...
