Posted on 01/23/2024 5:39:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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.
I wonder if most took shots? wonder if they will have issues like pilots, and others?
“Walmart has become the largest company in human history...”
By what metric is Walmart the largest company in human history?
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.
Pay people more than going rate if you want to keep them. Treat them well and let them know you appreciate them. Don't give them any excuses for failure to meet top performance expectations. If they fail, make an example of them and let someone else have their opportunity. Things will work out well using this tactic and most people will be very happy. So much so that even the employees will not tolerate sloppiness in others.
The meteorologist for Walmart called the path of Hurricane Katrina and got the company mobilized for what turned out to be a big mess. Oh, and GWB hates black people. /sarc
I know a driver (indie, not for WM) who's at least a year older than me, and making more money than he ever has in his life. He and a couple of other drivers picked up extra rigs and hired additional drivers who couldn't quite swing the cost.
High standards
Better than Amazon on many common things, but lacks the diversity of items, and the items available for free ship to home ($35 min) is inferior to Amazon, as is its cart page and its version of Prime. Amazon Prime costs $14.99 per month + $139 per year. Walmart+ will run you $12.95 per month or $98 per year, but you are expected to tip about 10% for every delivery. But thank God we have such!
No wonder all the low bridges are continually being destroyed, and the curbs run over.
That's SWIFT (Sure Wish I Finished Training) that does all that.
By the number of employees. They’re the largest employer in Arkansas (most states it’s a university or public health system) and they have stores in every town of any size throughout North America.
They also have their own grocery distribution company so you don’t have to pay for the middle man.
Walmart Home+ has an option to pay a bit more and you don’t have to tip. I think I paid about 30.00 a year for this and it’s worth it. I have 99% of my groceries, etc. delivered from Walmart. I only shop at the local grocer for fresh veggies and meat. I’ve saved hundreds by not tipping and using this option.
all i can say is that walmart apparently doesn’t run its trucks on Sundays because their shelves are stripped bare on Mondays and not restocked until Tuesday ... years ago we stopped shopping at walmart on mondays because it was pointless ...
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.
The curbs aren’t being run over because of the trucks.
They’re being run over because the engineers and folks that do the urban planning/road planning, never seem to take into account how many of these trucks will be using them.
With the way they’re slamming up distribution centers and warehouses in Georgia, praying and hoping that the California ports shut down because of their insane electric vehicle mandates, road after road after road after road, in Georgia is going to have to be rebuilt from all the weight.
The weight of the electric trucks...also something the geniuses in California didn’t account for
Schneider and Werner were in the running for that particular accolade.
The company I’ve been working for has had maxed 4 1/2 weeks paid vacation since I started over 26 years ago ... and making that kind of bank isn’t terribly difficult, you just have to put in the effort.
ThaTs nice that they give you that.
Senior drivers at Old Dominion make as much as the Walmart folks and more, and they’re home every night.
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