Walmart Transportation

I met a nice WM driver at the awful Cheektowaga Sams Club last month. He was more down to earth rather than nose in air like most of them are. This store has 5-6 docks but only one is open. Cluster every morning. We had to communicate to get everyone in and out in some orderly fashion. Good dude. He even made the comment that he wasn’t a prick like most other WM drivers. So their own employees even know LOL.

 

Some of their drivers are cool, they’re just trying to get there last year or two in and take the early opt-out package before the company pulls out the rug from underneath them! When WallyWorld started hiring new drivers and giving them runs usually reserved for their senior drivers in order to “save a few bucks”(cheap labor),the writing was on the wall, and those senior drivers are cashing in their chips quicker than a gambler at a Vegas crap table that went cold!!

 

My buddy finished week 1 of orientation. 70 people were in orientation and only 15 made the cut to the next round!!! He almost got sent home because he didn't know how to slide the tandems right. He's been a career skateboard driver and most recently pulled a pneumatic tanker locally. He managed to get in touch with the right person because that guy said that ain't a reason to send nobody home and that saved him. That road test was a 200 mile round trip through some back roads of South Carolina. Tough ones at that. They were really testing him something serious. Then at the same hotel, Tyson was there bringing in the Walmart rejects. The recruiter was there getting those drivers set up in the motel if they were interested and some of them went on stuck around for orientation so I guess for some all wasn't lost. I am curious, though. How long do Walmart drivers have to show for a pretrip and post trip? He told me they have a camera on their hat so that safety could see if they were actually doing a pretrip. I thought he was pulling my leg there lol

 

Like I said, just nuck no. Just NO.

 

Thats tempting.

Just looked up and saw they have nanny cameras.
Nevermind lol.

 

Yeah I get that.
I'm in the truck driving anywhere from 5 to 10 hours a day. Don't really think about those as I don't do anything that's construed as illegal or against company rules. It's their rig and policy so I just abide.

Some like the freedom of the road and the OTR life but after doing the trucking thing near 50 yrs I want more of what life has to offer.

Yesterday we went to the fair and ate and drank too much.

Now we're gonna ride 50 miles downriver to drink beer and barbecue this afternoon.

Monday I'll drive down to Indiana for an Argon pickup while earning 88 bucks an hour..all while being in front of the nanny cam.





That's TX songwriter Kelly Willis.

 

Holy crap!!!! Glad he didn’t get sent home. I agree with the long road test. I always laughed when a company would make me drive around the block and say all was well.

That camera on the hat is borderline crazy.

I wonder since safety is watching store cameras if that is the reason you see WM drivers using truckstops and rest areas for their breaks? I see that more often than I used too.

 

I have many years accident and ticket free driving. Why would a camera need to watch me?

I worked hard all these years to be safe not to have someone in a cubicle watching me while working.

Be sure to moon the camera for me while you're doing that delivery in Indiana.

 

Well, it's whatever you're comfortable with. And I'm not going to harsh on anyone's career decisions.....like I said, it's whatever trips your trigger.

That said, $88 x 40 hrs = $3520 a week, which equals $183,040 a year.
The other dude said his brother in law or whatever was doing $133,000 a year.

I sincerely doubt either is true.
Perhaps you wouldn't mind posting your W2.
Pics, or it didn't happen.
Jus sayin

 

Monday is the holiday so we earn double time and a half=88
Last check week ending 8-21 and have grossed 84K all while being home each night and weekend. I'll do around 134K.
Did OTR for first 12 yrs of my career.
I enjoyed the heck out of it but it was a sacrifice I couldn't make for the rest of my life.