Don't worry the implant barely itches and the bruising from the hazing goes away in a month or so
You pal going to mentor?
Won't be long now until we have another among our ranks here that likes to drag race at 64.5mph!
Yeah, the twice a year you get north of I40...it's really gonna kill ya!
You guys are already under mandatory extensions?So far that's the plan. Also, I'm told that I get on the truck right away Friday, follow his schedule until Sunday, take his Monday, and Tuesday off, then finish Wednesday, and the rest of the week or whatever...and blaa blaa, then work into my schedule (with mandatory extensions) as allows.
I guess he's got a store ambassador meeting that Friday, so they have to swing him through the DC anyway, and that's when I jump on.
So that's kinda cool, jumping in feet first and all.
You guys are already under mandatory extensions?
You guys are already under mandatory extensions?
Extensions happen when we get busy. Drivers go from 5 days a week to 5 and a half. Some times that is voluntary, and some times they are mandatory.Oh lord, here we go with the secret walmart speak already! Buncha Nerds!
Oh lord, here we go with the secret walmart speak already! Buncha Nerds!
Now we're going to have TWO of them speaking in acronyms & referring to colleagues and supervisors by name as if we all know who they're talking about.Oh lord, here we go with the secret walmart speak already! Buncha Nerds!
Going into peak @Mike trailers get very precious. A lot of times they cut back hauls simply because we can not give up the trailer pool and meet store demands. Some of out busiest stores go from 7-8 trailers a week to 21.
We always end up renting trailers. So any back haul that holds trailers being say a day is out until after peak.
I don't get how it can be moved cheaper with outside carriers. After all, those carriers don't operate to break even. They're for profit.I know all about the trailer renting. You guys seem to rent out half of ours. Our terminals are steadily filling up with trailers full of walmart freight in preparation for Black Friday. We go through this every year.
What I was referring to is Walmart coming in during the annual p&g contract time a month or so ago and basically taking on freight there that they used to farm out.
Walmart simply has a different plan of action that most, and I am curious as to how it will turn out in a few years.
For years now, most operations like Walmart has worked to farm out as much of the transportation as possible because it saved the company money. Even Walmart did this. In the past couple years though, they are reversing course and seem to be doing it at full speed.
They are hauling more and more of their own freight, and have been pushing to increase their driver base for quite some time now.
I'm curious how far this trend will go, if it will succeed, or if there will be a complete reversal of what we are seeing now as time goes on.
They are hauling more and more of their own freight...
I don't get how it can be moved cheaper with outside carriers. After all, those carriers don't operate to break even. They're for profit.
So are expenses for private fleetIt's a 100% write off when using a contractor.
I don't get how it can be moved cheaper with outside carriers. After all, those carriers don't operate to break even. They're for profit.
Anyway, so there's X amount of freight that's going to be moved. If Walmart's own employees haul it, that's more people they employ. And the more Americans they employ, the less damage they can say they do to the US economy by stocking their shelves with the Made in China label and seafood raised in Vietnamese sewers.