If the industry average is $17.50 per hour no wonder it would pay to work for WalMart.
$17.50 will hardly get you a teenager to work in a fast food restaurant.
That shows you what kind of guys must be driving those trucks.
No wonder all the low bridges are continually being destroyed, and the curbs run over.
It gets you someone from the third world who can’t speak or read English wears flip flops and sweat pants, 💩s though a pipe in the floor of their sleeper (yup. Google it. They do) and just got a CDL.
There are Wal-Mart truckers that make $400,000 per year, including overtime.
I’m going to challenge that number.
I’m betting that they took into account all truck drivers, not the guys going over the road.
If one is willing to go OTR and sleep in the back of one of those things, you can make that money with most of the companies.
As someone that does short haul and started out with Old Dominion(good company, no complaints), one thing they could do is offer something as simple as ‘paid vacation’. Something that isn’t standard in the industry. You want to take off, go ahead, you ain’t getting paid. Hell, even if they offered 2 weeks in the beginning and maxed at 3 or 4, for the senior folks, that would mean a lot. Especially when companies are telling their workers they’re profiting some legit money.
$17.50 is what a regular WalMart “associate” makes, not their, or other, truck drivers.
You have to bribe teenagers to get off the couch. They are lazy, indolent and cannot even give change without a calculator. Total morons. Drive up to a window, the bill is $19.27. You hand then a $20 bill, and $.27 cents. They look like a lizard on a rock in the sun. JUST GIVE ME A BUCK, Jeezus holy glixm.