Walmart offers $110,000 to new drivers amid shortage
https://nypost.com/2022/04/07/walmart-offering-as-much-as-110000-to-drive-its-trucks/
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Walmart offers $110,000 to new drivers amid shortage
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https://nypost.com/2022/04/07/walmart-offering-as-much-as-110000-to-drive-its-trucks/
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Meanwhile I'm on a hiring committee at the University where I work that is trying to fill a staff administrative position, bachelor's required, starting at $40,000. 
Meanwhile I'm on a hiring committee at the University where I work that is trying to fill a staff administrative position, bachelor's required, starting at $40,000.
That's good money. For West Virginia.
Are they hiring employees or are they hiring contractors that either already need their own truck or get bound to some absolutely awful lease to own scheme? $110,000/yr isn't much when you have to buy your own fuel and maintain a rig.
In CT if you still have student loans and a small car payment I doubt you could even qualify to rent an apartment anywhere on $40k/year.
Folks, this is what happens when certain cheerleaders for the technology say that self-driving trucks will be the norm in a few years and drivers will have to find other work. Now nobody wants to be a driver. Imagine that. Would you want to enter or stay in the field?
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Maybe some of you have never noticed how professional Walmart truckers are. And their equipment is top notch also.
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Well if get the Job please use that rig to drop off some M1 all flavors to the Walmarts in Long Island NY
Well, maybe if truckers were not treated so badly they wouldn't move to a better profession...
When they feel underappreciated and underpaid, truck drivers currently in the industry, are leaving their jobs to look for something that offers better pay, benefits and working conditions. Low wages. There was a time when truck drivers made decent money for their hard work.
This is only part of it.
I'm 31, when I graduated high school all the counselors were saying "go get a college degree or you won't find a job". I have a degree, I've worked hard, and currently work in IT at a University with a decent salary. I have friends working in trades who never went to college that make the same or more than I do. In my state there are companies begging for high school kids to fill positions when they graduate from the tech schools, and starting them at $60k a year.
Yup, it's also a result of companies laying off higher paid seasoned truckers in favor of cheap minimum wage contracting companies that hire steering wheel holders. It's not just trucking, I see it in all sorts of fields.
Lol, try to fill law enforcement positions right now. With the last 2/3 years and raises stuck in the county commissioners 'we'll get around to it someday' agenda, it is nigh on impossible to get people.Meanwhile I'm on a hiring committee at the University where I work that is trying to fill a staff administrative position, bachelor's required, starting at $40,000.
Then the same commissioners come to us and tell us we work too much overtime.
You won't fill it for that. If you can't fill an opening-the pay isn't high enough. The can't afford to pay the students loans the took out to get that degree at $40,000.00Meanwhile I'm on a hiring committee at the University where I work that is trying to fill a staff administrative position, bachelor's required, starting at $40,000.
Exactly what my argument has been this whole time I've been on the committee. They are having a hard time finding qualified applicants.
1. We are competing in a nationwide market now, these people can take their qualifications to somewhere like Alabama where the same $40k salary goes much further.
2. Why are we insisting people have degrees specific for the position? A degree of some kind and relative experience/being competent at completing tasks should take priority since this isn't a rocket science position.
3. The people setting these salaries make $250k+ and are out of touch with reality.
That's a whole other debate, but we are all living the results from years of kids being told that a degree is the only way forward in life.
I'm curious, did your high school offer technological studies? Examples would be auto mechanics, wood working, hospitality/tourism and horticulture.
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You are not competitive...you can't fill it. If they are going to a neighboring state-then you need to pay them $50,000.00 to stay in YOUR STATE. Maybe mention that to those degree laden guys who make $250,000.00
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Walmart has their own fleet of trucks.
https://corporate.walmart.com/newsr...nd-launches-private-fleet-development-program
Yea, I think CT has a high cost of living compared to the national average.
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