Walmart Or Miller Transporters?

I've gotten 2 offers one from Walmart as a company driver @ $82,000/yr gross and another from Miller Transporters, family owned tanker business out of Jackson, MS, as an O/O @ $175,000 gross w/ potential up to $225,000. Seen stubs to verify Miller, but as for Walmart this is just from their website. I'm 52 y/o and would like this to be my last job before retirement. How should I go about making my decision? Miller is 35 mi from my house, which should be no problem as an O/O, I could drive my truck home, but Walmart job is 200 mi away.

I would take the Walmart Job and retire from there

Ken C.

I would take the Walmart Job and retire from there

Oh for sure. A whole lot of people would be happy to do just that.

I agree whole heartedly with Brett and Ken. WM treats their drivers like gold, great equipment, impeccably maintained, great benefits, and you get paid very well. Granted I am biased, but not many trucking jobs offer a driver what WM can.

I would jump on walmart personally. I have been pulling a tanker for the last 7 mo. I have talked to alot of Miller drivers. We go many of the same places. They all have described the lease purchase program and all have agreed to make the numbers you listed you will never be home. You will also probably get 2 maybe 3 loads a week because of all the waiting time involved in tanks for the cleaning process. Monday morning I got to the wash before they even opened in PA and it still took 7.5 hrs before I was ready to roll.

Without getting into the overhead of being an O/O - another thing thing doesn't provide is BENEFITS.

Health, dental, 401K/retirement - these are all out of pocket - and despite them being write-offs, they still come off your personal net.

Faced with your scenario - I'd take the WM Corp gig.

If you're that set on O/O - go lease somewhere for awhile (one of the walk-aways) to get a feel for the "business side" of the business, which can be very time consuming ON TOP OF the time spent behind the wheel.

Rick