Hello Again. It's Been A While But I'm Back!

Hello everyone. I'm sure some of the veterans of the forum will remember me but I'm HeavyC. I was an active member here for a little while before I decided to take a break from socials and the Internet. I'm what you would call a career local/day can driver and for the last year I've been able to call Walmart home. I'll hopefully be becoming a Walmart Mentor here soon. A lot has changed since the last time I was here but I hope I can start again contributing to the conversation about this industry and just be helpful in whatever way I can.

Cheers

Hey brutha! How are ya?

It's great to hear from you. One of our other longtime members, "Turtle," is working for Walmart also.

It's always fun when one of our old friends just randomly shows up. I know it sounds silly, but a grin appeared on my face when I saw your name pop up on the forum.

Well I'm glad I could at least bring a grin to your face lol. I'm glad to see your still here fighting the good fight.

I've been doing great! Just taking care of the family and trying to keep the rubber to the road. I've really been loving my time at Walmart. Actually I'm kinda mad I didn't make the jump sooner.

Welcome back man! I’ve always wondered about the local side of Walmart. At one point whenever I’ve seen a Walmart day cab I assumed it was a senior driver. But now I’ve seen ads for local spots out of the Chicagoland area.

How does it work for you guys? Same as the road guys just local?

How's it's going Bird-One. So I work out of 7014 Lewiston, ME. We are a grocery DC and our coverage area is basically just New England. I have 5-2 schedule 10am start time Thursday out. Meaning my week starts Thursday. Really we do the same thing in a day cab as an OTR driver would. Only difference is they don't send us quite as far for our first trips of the day because can't sleep in the truck. So the really difference is miles. While an OTR guy may get between 550-600 miles a day I'm getting closer to 450-500. Now I've had bigger days but depends on how many trips are available and how I'm doing on time. The other difference is the OTR guys get paid $46 just to sleep in the truck every night. But I get to sleep in my bed next to my wife every night. So depends on what you want more.

As far as day cab positions being senior spots. That's definitely not the case. At least not here in Lewiston. OTR makes more money generally so they tend to stick to those positions. Again that's not always the case because it depends on how hard you want to run. Some guys like to do just one trip and shut it down or just go slower. Then you've got guys like me trying to fill my 70 every week.

If you got any more questions about Walmart I'll happily answer them.

Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying that for me. So you’re getting 2 days off every week than sounds like?

Yeah 5/2 is 5 on 2 off. We have many other programs like 5/2 5/3 which will alternate your days off because every other week you get a third day off. There 6/3 and also the rare 5/5. These are the most common. What's available will depend on the operational need of the DC you run out of. You're also not locked in for any certain amount of time. New schedules get posted all the time and if something opens up that you like more then you can sign up for it. It goes by seniority of course.

Great to see you. I'm glad you're doing well.

Welcome back, Heavy C!

I've been extremely quiet in here lately also, but always lurking in the background.

Congrats on getting in at Lewiston. I'm up that way at least a few times a month. One of the guys I onboarded with in Bentonville is there too. He also runs a home-daily daycab. Yeah, it's a little less pay, but you're home every night. There's a value to that for sure.

Maybe we'll cross paths and swap lies sometime.