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The only reason they're paying a hundred grand a year is they can't get anybody to drive for ninety grand a year. If the Waltons could figure out how to outsource their transportation jobs to China, they would have already done it.
 
Walmart used to pay their drivers really well. A few years ago they decided it would be cheaper to phase out their own fleet and pay other companies to haul for them. It did end up being cheaper but not as reliable. They didn't have the pull they had when the drivers weren't Walmart employees. They've been desperate ever since trying to hire back their own fleet. With the driver shortage and other shortages Walmart is trying to pump out as much volume as they can. I have 5 relatives that work for one of their warehouses and they've been working mandatory overtime for going on 6 years. The big reason is manpower. They can't get people to come to work or if they do they hide out in the bathroom. The past couple years have been a major issue. Many people hate on Walmart and for good reason sometimes but they also forget in some areas they have some of the highest paid employees. In this area there aren't to many jobs around and the ones that are only pay minimum wage.
 
Yaeh then go to appointments and be told park over there and we will call you when we are ready for you. Then get to dock 2-4 hours later and be told it has to be on this wood or we will not take it. After all that you have to do it or pay a lumper to do it. Sometimes the companies will not pay for them so you do or unload it your self. I used to do the taking a couple tiers off the top. If it had to have the whole load rearranged then I let the lumper do it. The reason for not pulling anything but a step deck trailer or a dump box if it has to have side. And then all the while you are there your treated like a third class citizen. I always liked the story about the walking floor trailer and having to unload. He supposedly engaged it and started running it out on the floor for them.
 
John,
I respect what truckers do. They are an essential part of our economy.
I retired 19 years ago and made 2.5x less than a Walmart driver earns today. I had to have a Masters degree, 5 years of college to do my job..
I never made 6 figures in my life.
A teacher needs 4 years of college. They still make about 2X less than a first year Walmart truck driver.
There is also a lack of teachers. Schools have done a work around to put people in classrooms without degrees..

Supply and demand. There is a need for 80,000 more drivers.
Sooner or later drivers will be replaced with robots..
 
There's two sides of any argument. Appointment drivers get taken in immediately if they arrive in their scheduled time. If they're late or arrive a day or two early, yes that happens often, then the schedule is completely thrown off. A driver arriving when not scheduled will have to wait until the other drivers who are also appointment drivers are unloaded. Also as I said before the unloading dock is often working under staffed. I can't testify to lumpers because this particular warehouse doesn't have them. In reality a trailer only gets one person unloading it. Drivers bring in thousand case floor loads and expect to have them done in 2 hours. That's not happening. That's why a driver who is late is asked what type of load he has. If on pallets and is easily done quickly he'll be taken in right away. If it's something that will take longer he'll have to wait until someone is available. Probably not fair but that's the way it is.
 
At least driving for WalMart, you only have to deal with outside warehouse around 25 percent of the time. It would always be drop and hook at the DC. At the store its their freight on their truck so I cant imagine them jerking the driver around. Unlike the nightmare of being an outside driver delivering to their distribution centers.

My favorite place to deliver when I drove was a printing outfit in Dixon, Illinois. Never any other trucks in line, from the time you touched the dock, it was less than 15 minutes, the light turned green, signed papers were on the back of the trailer. 7 rolls of paper, 46000 lbs.
 
(quoted from post at 03:46:14 04/15/22) $27.50 per hour and gone from home for a week at a time.
Sure glad some of you feel that is great pay with all we deal with out here.
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I am genuinely curious to your formula used to come up with $27.50 an hour.
 
Something to consider.

As a driver, that big money sounds great at first. There are other things to consider, though. First thing is time away from home. This is not a good career for a family man. Sometimes gone for weeks at a time, sometimes home every night, and most of the time too worn out to take care of things at home.
Next thing is food. consider that nearly every meal is restaurant food. A steady diet of restaurant food will do two things for you: make you fat and give you high blood pressure.
Next thing is how you spend your money and how much you get to keep. A trucker ends up paying for everything he does out on the road. It costs you to eat, sleep, park, shower, do laundry, and the list goes on. These things that we take for granted in a house like having a washing machine, stove, refrigerator/freezer, and parking are all things that the trucker has to continually shell out for.

As a result of all of this, $100,000 on the road is worth maybe $40,000 in a local job because of road expenses and tax inflation. So, after all, is that really such good pay?
 
Guess it's time for some of the retired 62 year olds to quit spending their day complaining that people won't work because they can make more money sitting at home, while they don't work for the same reason, and go back to work. With money like that, they can't say that anymore.
 
[b:654c4848f0]I am genuinely curious to your formula used to come up with $27.50 an hour.[/b:654c4848f0]

$27.50 x 70 hrs a week = $1925
$1925 x 52 = 100,100.00 a year

That is the problem.
You guys are looking at 100k and comparing it to a 50k teacher that works 8am to 3 pm.
That is why over the road drivers are complaining about E-Logs.
Because they can not do the work they use to do with lying paper logs in the allotted 70 hours a week E-Log allows you to
work.

And we have not even started to talk about the $30 to $50 a day you spend on 3 meals a day out on the road; The fact that
you have a special police force (DOT) that only concentrates on big trucks trying to take your check away; or the fact your
wife is chasing the mail man because you are never home; or the fact that more truck drivers die on the job than any other
job.
 
Just my very personal opinion: If they'd pay me double what Walmart is offering i still wouldn't want to drive a truck. It might be nice, almost enjoyable, if you were hauling across flat, green, open, Midwest countryside on a sunny morning in June. But maneuvering in Chicago traffic in a January snowstorm, having to back down narrow alleys to get to loading docks, putting up with the usual overabundance of a-hole road-hog drivers on every road in America, well, not so much fun. I applaud, admire and respect anyone who has the courage and skill and patience to drive a big rig. As said, just my opinion.
 
Overtime??
I never got paid a dime for working weekends, late at night grading papers.. All part of the job..
 
I dont understand the fascination here with what Walmart pays their drivers. They are skilled at what they do like any tradesman and I know plenty who make over 100k a year.

Vito
 
(quoted from post at 15:27:12 04/15/22) Overtime??
I never got paid a dime for working weekends, late at night grading papers.. All part of the job..
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by your choice.

People are tired of being numbered slaves and are waking up to the fact that you might be let go tomorrow.
That goes both ways now and more people are jumping for more pay and benefits.

What are these companies gonna do when the employees that are left get fed up with mandatory overtime, weekends, double shifts, etc. ?
They gonna just let them go? Eventually it will be put up or close the doors.
 
You can't always fuel up every day. But you DO need to sleep every day and park for your 10-hour break. As to showers, you can miss a day here and there.... maybe.
 
"If it was in STEM you would have started at 6 figures. A social science degree doesn't pay much."

A government school marm doesn't make nearly 100K regardless of degree. I agree that social science degrees aren't worth much and STEM "should" be worth more, but in the government schools it is discouraged to excel so their pay is based on things other than subject matter.
 
(quoted from post at 14:42:45 04/16/22) "If it was in STEM you would have started at 6 figures. A social science degree doesn't pay much."

A government school marm doesn't make nearly 100K regardless of degree. I agree that social science degrees aren't worth much and STEM "should" be worth more, but[b:05d98fe97f] in the government schools it is discouraged to excel [/b:05d98fe97f]so their pay is based on things other than subject matter.
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We have just encountered the stupidest thing ever posted on the internet.
 
(quoted from post at 09:36:45 04/16/22)
(quoted from post at 14:42:45 04/16/22) "If it was in STEM you would have started at 6 figures. A social science degree doesn't pay much."

A government school marm doesn't make nearly 100K regardless of degree. I agree that social science degrees aren't worth much and STEM "should" be worth more, but[b:0148a3c6d4] in the government schools it is discouraged to excel [/b:0148a3c6d4]so their pay is based on things other than subject matter.
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We have just encountered the stupidest thing ever posted on the internet.
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Tim, click on his profile and read some more of his posts. You will have second thoughts.
 
(quoted from post at 22:07:51 04/16/22)
(quoted from post at 09:36:45 04/16/22)
(quoted from post at 14:42:45 04/16/22) "If it was in STEM you would have started at 6 figures. A social science degree doesn't pay much."

A government school marm doesn't make nearly 100K regardless of degree. I agree that social science degrees aren't worth much and STEM "should" be worth more, but[b:fa67283156] in the government schools it is discouraged to excel [/b:fa67283156]so their pay is based on things other than subject matter.
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We have just encountered the stupidest thing ever posted on the internet.
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Tim, click on his profile and read some more of his posts. You will have second thoughts.
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I'll take your word for it.
 
I had an uncle that had a load of potatoes the jerks stood around laughing at him as they weren't in hurry they were getting paid to goof off he wasn't.
was not so funny when he pulled around in front of store and started throwing potatoes out the back of the truck didn't take long for a bunch of clowns to help unload him. the next time he went to that store they were ready to unload him before he got truck stopped.
 
Mrs 730 taught school for 30 + years she didn't do it for the money she loved teaching and the kids.
most years she taught summer school also took lots of classes on her own time better to help her teaching skills.
then you had to watch your back because of butt kissing back stabbers
 
They built the grocery warehouse at Pottsville with intentions to have their own drivers. I was one of the first drivers to deliver there, they had an entire fleet of new peterbilt Tupperware torpedoes on site.
I pulled groceries out of Auburn with Schneider for a few years. They were pretty good to us, they fired one of their drivers and a couple assistant managers because they started something with one of us.
We were told we had the top on-time store deliveries most months, and Schneider had the contract at 5 warehouses at the time. Swift bought out Merrit to get several walmart contracts, and their on-time deliveries at some warehouses was about on par with the weatherman's accuracy.

Sometimes our guys would go up to Coldwater to pull general merch, they weren't allowed to average faster than 10 under the speed limit- 45 mph in Michigan. Gave them plenty of time to get to the store, make a pit stop, then find a manager for their drop and hook instructions.
 
It used to be about impossible to get on with them.
I dont know if they are using inward facing cameras, but I wouldn't doubt it. Dont know what their electronics policy is, either. Schneider fired a couple guys who were recording themselves talking while driving, no calls, even with a headset.
 
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