Is It Just ME, or .....
 

Is it just me, or have any of you noticed that Wal Mart drivers seem to be getting worse and worse as time goes by. I used to feel comfortable going into a tight highway turn, or constrution zone with a Wal Mart Driver right next to me, but lately they seem to be getting really wild.

Now, I cringe at the sight of a big white wally world truck anywhere near me. They don't seem to be as courteous as they used to be either.

Has anyone else noticed this?

yeah, i couldn't help but notice the same thing on I-75 on friday afternoon, Mr. Wally World driver with 1.5 million miles thought it would be okay to hold everyone up in the middle lane going a whopping 60 mph, had all the room to merge back over to the right but i guess he figured with all those miles behind him, he could do as he pleased, i ended up passing him in the right lane which clearly let him know he was holding up oncoming traffic, and for miles he continued to stay in the center lane with no care in the world. It just burns me up, i don't care if it was Wal-Mart or Swift, all of us out here need to learn how to be courteous, the truck i drive runs 75, but as soon as i make my pass i'm right back in the right lane to allow traffic to continue to move around me. Just me 2 cents.

Re: Is It Just ME, or .....
 

Funny. I was going to ask that same question, Walmart used to have the most courteous and helpful drivers around, seems now that they have more a-holes than good drivers.

Beeeeppp....move over JB, Schnieder, Swift...Wal-Mart coming thru. :roll:

Swift, werner, schnieder all run freight for walmart, as soon as a position is open these drivers just move in, so now there workforce is made up of these drivers, mostly swift drivers fill the spot in a empty walmart truck

I kind of find that hard to believe Walmart is hiring Swift, Werner or Schnieder drivers? Not saying it isn't true just seems odd Walmart would do that?

been to lots of walmart dc,s , talked with lots of drivers both walmart and swift/werner/schnieder..... most walmart drivers i talked to were swift drivers who fell into the open position... most werner drivers i talked with were saying 2 more months and i can drive for walmart.... so i see walmart drivers still have that 3 years behind the wheel but drivers who already haul there freight get first shot at the job.... this is why there trucks seem to be all over the road and not driving kind like years past...

I see, I haven't really noticed the quality of the Walmart drivers? but I have noticed Walmart drivers would always wave to us but now they have there nose in the air like most other OTR drivers do. There has always been a separation between the OTR drivers and drivers who drive day cabs but Walmart was never like that towards us, there are some other OTR drivers that will always give you a "hey driver" but most don't. I will always wave to a driver passing me because I was a OTR not to long ago.

I've noticed the quality of Swift drivers pulling walmart trailers has been lacking, but the Walmart direct drivers seem ok, just super-slow :wink:

Agreed. If you are going slower than the flow of traffic and there is no one merging from the right than you need to move over and let the faster traffic by. Walmart and Fedex seem to be the worst at doing this around the Dfw area.

Re: Is It Just ME, or .....
 

Just in the last while, like the last couple of weeks or so, yes, I have. Wal-Mart drivers in company trucks driving like serious assholes for some reason. I don't know what's up with that, but it's odd. Usually a Wal-Mart truck driving like a real asshole is a contract hauler pulling a Wal-Mart trailer, but apparently not anymore.

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Maybe something IS up with their drivers.

Last week I ran a couple hundred with one and about every mile or so he'd get on the CB and say..."Jusht remeeeember...Wal-Mart doth not dithcriminate" (That's a lisp...not bad spelling) :shock:

I spoke to a Wal-mart direct driver one-year ago at their DC southwest of Chicago.

He said changes were underway where drivers would be driving a bit more than they were used to and would be home a bit less than they were used to. He wasn't thrilled about it but he didn't seem like the type of guy who would allow that misfortune to affect his professional driving habits.

Maybe their dist. centers started treating them like they do us :shock:
I'm always disgruntal (sp) when I leave one of their dist. centers. Or it's because they are not called truckers they are called assosiates of the highway by their powers that be. (sp) :wink: Most I have been around lately have been good,but they are not the same as they used to be when they drove them cabovers. imo

I've never noticed that WalMart Co. drivers are doing anything bad.
I've always found them to be professional and friendly especially when trying to find a well hidden DC :lol:

My only complaint is with Western Express whose drivers can only seem to operate a truck unless there is a cell phone stuck to the side of their head.

And I reckon THAT would explain THAT!!!

Wal-mart is changing
 

I can't speak about Waly World's drivers as I am a neon green rookie, but I left Wal-Mart (store level supervisor position) in Feburary this year to start driving and my wife still works there.

At the stores they are getting very budget minded (cheap). Maybe this attitude is at the wharehouse level as well.

For example at the store: Raises work on a formula. If you change positions your pay very possibly may change, and not always for the better. Learning more than one area doesn't matter to your pay, but expect to also work it. Merit raises have been eliminated. After 3 "unauthorized" absences in a rolling 6 month period you start getting written up. Being sick is not an "authorized" absence, even with a doctors note.

Just a sample of what was going on in the store I left. Some of these things are not at all stores, yet.

I understand about being frugal. But being frugal is about fixing a leaking sink before someone slips in the puddle and breaks a leg. Cheap is hoping an accident does not happen.

Dan Isa Wannabe

I here you there on the store stuff. I was working in a store and saw how bad it is getting in there anymore I refuse to shop there I will spend the extra 2 cents and get my TP at target than at Wally world.

I wish we had a target close to us. I hate shopping at Wally World. We have a Kroger for groceries on the other side of town, then we have a local grocery store that I call the Freak Show. It is for the folks that aren't classy enough to shop at Wal-Mart... :shock:

Ya know, CAD, most grocery stores are getting that way. :?

I know I am a vendor that works a wal-mart !st in bread and now in milk and they think they rule the world they treat you like crape. Like a redheaded step child
WAL-MART SUX !!!!!

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I was only days away from finally getting promoted, as it turned out in retrospect, but I'm a Wally World refugee too, and my wife still works there. I left Mr. Sam's Legacy Land for trucking in 1997. Can't say it was a bad decision.Yeah, that's a crock. I got several of those, because I, unlike most of my peers, was not a sh*t*ss.This is true, but it's not quite as bad as it sounds on the surface. Used to be if you were sick on a weekend, you had to spend $100 to go to the doctor for a sick note. Now it doesn't matter, so just call in anyway, and the hell with it. In actual practice, it hasn't seemed to be a problem for the ol' lady.

The biggest El Cheapass thing that's burning us up at the moment is doing away with uniforms in favor of requiring employees, oh, excuse me, Associates to purchase their own khaki bottoms and navy blue tops. What a crock. Customers, oh, excuse me, marks don't have any idea who works there anymore, and a multi-billion dollar international corporation being so cheap as to demand that people living at the poverty level (ie. Wal-Mart Associates whose spouses don't have real jobs) spend money on their own uniforms is an astonishing slap in the face.

Anyway, salutations brother Wal-Mart Refugee! You sound like a human being, so I assume you didn't go on that magical trip to Bentonville. I knew two guys who were human before they went to Bentonville, and after they came back, they were company men through and through. It was really creepy to see.

Just be careful what you say, friend. China owns the USA, and Wally World owns China, so Wally World owns the USA.

Silvan
My mother worked for walmart for 13 years before she retired in '99.
she worked in the craft dept. and being the avid sewer she is, she loved it ,she was able to take sewing patterns for crafts home and assemble them with supplies and materials given to her for free by walmart, then take the finished item back to walmart to display for a month or two for display then they would give it to her to bring home to keep for free....... She really loved her job................

Then Sam died and she hated every minute till the day she retired.
:shock: and she is not a hateful person :shock: