Apart from a pay increase, Walmart also uses technology that allows for more reliable schedules compared to other companies. While some in the trucking industry are away for weeks at a time, Walmart gives its drivers consecutive days off of work and assigns them regional delivery territories to allow them to be home every week, a Walmart spokesperson told Fortune.
The federal government has lost its trucking mind. So says the state's trucking industry trade group, which is demanding that the Federal Highway Administration abandon its objection to the 34th Street busway - a red flag speciously thrown up by Administrator Sean McMaster on the false premise that truckers would not be able to access the crosstown corridor because of the city Department of Transportation's plan to put down red paint.