Wal Mart for the most part,when you haul to the distribution center its through a broker.Also lots of people wont haul to Wal Mart because of their attitude.They act like they own you and the driver is a kindergartener.You can set there hours and hours.They are still better than Fleming who they put out of business in my opinion.When you get a "broker"load,its between the truck company and the broker to negotiate the price.For the last 3 or 4 years the "brokers"have been trying to get the pay lower and lower.Now Wal Mart has good brokers getting loads for them,but they see the bad brokers who rip off people getting away with it and try to do it themselves.Wal Mart is ok loads,but nothing to brag about by the time you blow half a day getting it unloaded.Actually they usually get you unloaded when you back in the door,it can take them a couple of hours to check you in,and another hour up to 4 to get you paperwork. If it werent for unions,nobody would be making the pay they are in this country.Now whenever I worked for a union,I worked hard,more than 40 hours,and had benefits.Somehow,the post hippie generation of union workers got this idea of not having to work.These people,even when the handwriting was on the wall,to work or they were going to close the warehouse,wouldnt.They tried to scam drivers worse until they just became so disgusting,the company went out of business rather than try and work with them any more.Fleming is who I am talking about but there are lots of them just like that.That attitude and Wal Marts attitude of not having unions is the reason we are where we are now,with lots of Wal Marts.Is it better,a little,but its not better for the workers.There are only about 1/4 the people working on the Wal Mart dock that "worked"on a Fleming dock. The trucking industry needs a lot of improvement.There is no excuse for the condition the trucking industry is in other than greed and stupidity.These companies will run the owner operators into the ground,then they will cry they cant handle the freight.They are too inefficient to handle the freight because they have sub standard drivers,truck stops are full of them every day to where people that work driving a truck cant even get in a truck stop when they need it.Shelves empty at Wal Mart,there are your "cheap,non union"drivers that would rather play video games than drive the truck.Soon as somebody says something to them,they quit and go work for another company,usually after tearing up a bunch of stuff.You get sub standard drivers when you break the owner operators.This is just the start,in another year,if things dont change to where owner operators are still hauling freight,it will be lots worse.You wont get things delivered anywhere on time any more,and it will cost a fortune to get anything hauled.Wal Mart will be in sad shape,maybe broke by then.While that could be good,you need somebody standing there ready to take up the slack.Wal Mart is the bottom of the barrel.Nobody is waiting to take their place.Next is the National Guard to deliver your groceries.I doubt thats going to work very well.
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