Walmart OTR Regional Commute

@rollin coal

 

160 miles (one way) sounds like an awful lotta work....just to get to (& from) work.

If you are in the Sioux Falls area....& already have a hazmat endorsement -- here's another idea, in case Wallyworld doesn't pan out:



-- L

 

No that’s not how Walmart works. You report to theDC to start your week and return to the Dc at the end of your week to go home.

 

Yeah the truck stays at the DC you can't drive it home. I'd say the money is definitely worth it because I know several drivers who commute 3 and 4 hours to the job. Walmart is a steady money making machine. While everybody else in trucking is contending with cut hours, scarce freight and talking about a freight downturn (ever since early 2022) we're busy all day every day.

 

You know Walmart started that when they had a driver living in North Carolina I think and he was driving to work at DC that was in NJ or NY. He was driving all day from home. Then got in Walmart truck driving all night basically.

He fell asleep on NJ turnpike and hit stopped traffic. He hit a van that Tracy Morgan and Jimmy Mack was in. Jimmy Mack was kill. Tracy Morgan was severely injured and almost killed.

It took them a while to figure out want happed because the Walmart truck was 100% legal. Walmart put a stop to that by saying you have to live within 250 miles of the DC. To stop drivers making the same mistake again.

 

that driver actually lived in Georgia and drove from Georgia all the way to Smyrna, Delaware

 

You are exactly right. I drive 165 miles to go to work. I stay busy every day and make great money.