Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year

Re:Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year by hollosi on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:48PM (#30953146)

Essentially: no DUI (ever!), no texting while driving (ever!), no tickets in the last 3 years.

Surprisingly low percent of truck drivers can pass this.

Plus, many trucks have a driver-facing camera, no privacy.

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Re:Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year by Ansil849 on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:11AM (#30953259)

> no DUI (ever!)

Why the "ever!" addendum? Are you suggesting it is unreasonable to not have DUIs "ever!"?

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Re:Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year by hollosi on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:55PM (#30960367)

It's just to emphasize that they may be lenient about some other tickets as long as they are way in the past, but they are not lenient about these ones.

These are reasonable conditions, but apparently they are not easy to pass.

I think the texting while driving is the more interesting one: a bunch of states don't care too much (Arizona, Montana, etc.), some others only impose a small $25 fine, so young people may not think about it as a huge obstacle to a high-paying job much later.

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Re:Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year by NikolaNovak on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:03AM (#30955886)

While I am an annoying stickler for safe driving (I gave advanced driving school gift certs for Xmas), one of the thoughts is - if you made an whopsie when you were 16 years old, how much should that cost you when you are e.g. 27 or for rest of your life?

I am cognizant that not everybody makes brilliant decisions when they are young, and not all of them remain awful incorrigible human beings forever.

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