The Walmart graduates: Workers ditch stores to earn $110K as TRUCKERS For Ronnie Suggs, an Iraq War veteran, his new role as a truck driver for Walmart is more than just an exciting new job - it's going to change his 'entire life'. www.dailymail.co.uk Wally is training their own drivers, 12 weeks and you're truckin' with Wally. Joe H
The ex-military guy in the story already has the right size gut, to be a trucker!
That will make for some youtube material when one bites the dust, another swift.
Good for them to go after a good paying job and bettering their lives.
Known some Wally drivers-Wally promotes a great story but doesn't bare all the fruit.
Knew some Wallys as well same story, run, run ,run where are you? run, run, run where are you? One cat said on several occasions he'd be in the yard backing into the dock and the phone would be ringing, "you're 5 minutes late where are you? At the time they were paying more than most carriers but you were married to the truck. If you like leather assin' it, this could be the job for you. Every company is a Swift/JB now, they kick these kids out of school that can't even drive a truck with a clutch or read a map, heaven forbit their GPS goes down, bedlam ensues.
12 weeks is quite a long time. There are four truck driving schools near me, one can turn out a class B in less than a week if they have prior truck driving experience. 5 week courses are the typical, for absolute new driver to Class A on the road with a 53' van in all the local schools.
The CDL training issue is so common-pretty soon everyone will have one-society just wants to drive truck-it's a me too thing these days. Mandatory training should start at age 9 that way when age 10 the children can drive the wonderful {term} {prime mover}.
My kids would have at one point. We had cable TV that had the same movies on for weeks at a time. They knew the words to Convoy, I had enough of it stuck in my head too. mid 70s? Joe H
I may know more about Walmart then I like to admit. From the place where I was at, the company that was running the actual “Walmart” trucks were all good drivers every single one… not always motivated but all good drivers. If it didn’t come from that warehouse for the love of god stand back. I have seen a pallet of water stacked on top of dog food apparently the driver decided to take a short cut over a couple of sidewalks and bam when I open the doors five or six pallets were destroyed but that dog food one I will never forget, the water was originally on top but the dog food was lighter than the water so it should have been on the top anyways thats not the drivers fault. But that dog food/ water pallet did a full rotation without a single damaged product the water bottles were now upside down and the dog food made it on top it was deemed an act of god but the 20$ of shrink wrap on the pallets probably had something to do with it. Maybe he was actually a good driver those pallets together could barely do a full flip in that trailer because of there height. I’ll try to see if someone has a picture of it. Sadly that’s truck had to be unloaded by hand and resorted took a good 3 hours .