CR Englend Family Dollar
Posted by StrifeLover@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 37 comments
Got a recruiter from CR England telling me the family dollar guys are making $1500 a week here in Utah.
How big of a grain of salt do I take with that?
Defiant_Network_3069@reddit
šššš I wouldn't trust that
Violet_Apathy@reddit
The 3rd flag is dg
Defiant_Network_3069@reddit
It's actually the Family Dollar account.
It was just announced that Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar to a couple Private Equity Firms. Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management. So I give it 2 years Max before Family Dollar is out of business.
The New Owners will want to "Renegotiate" all the contracts. Including the delivery contract for far less.
Violet_Apathy@reddit
That's not even a red flag. That's a straight up deal breaker.
Scary-Emu-7685@reddit
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jaylew1981@reddit
All while having a inward facing camera. Nope, no thx.
AnnulMe@reddit
Theres a reason the dollar general account is always open.
It's basically food service in a 53. Its not a great route to take out of school
acd2002@reddit
Itās great for learning how to back tho, Iām grateful for my time on DG even tho I hated it.
Few_Interaction1327@reddit
Former store manager for Family Dollar. Yeah, all the drivers i talked to made $1100 to $1800 a week pulling the family dollar account. You'll work your ass off. The stores are notoriously horrible to back into, no docks, just a door with 30 to 60 feet of space for your truck and trailer to fit into. The loads are not loaded right at all, you open the doors and stuff is falling out. Heavy stuff is placed on top of crushable items. Boxes of bleach, laundry soap, soap, water, juices, anything liquid are always damaged and leaking everywhere. You unload at each store one box at a time. So stop 1 gets 1100 cases, your picking up 1100 cases and putting them on the slide to roll into the stores back door. Stop 2 could be 900 cases, stop 3 could be 1400 cases, and stop 4 could be 1800 cases. You'll get managers that complain at you if you're moving too slow, and other managers that comain you're moving too fast.
Thepopethroway@reddit
Hmm so like food service but even shittier pay but you're OTR too.
lol lmao
Row30@reddit
Was in the news last week that āFamily Dollarā was going to close stores. Check it out (google)
Few_Interaction1327@reddit
You're about a year late on your news. And as of 3 days ago, Dollar Tree has found a buyer for Family Dollar, selling them for 1 billion after paying 8 billion for them 10 years ago.
azziptac@reddit
No one tell him... š¤£
OP proceeds to open Family Dollar trailer to a world of pain lol.
chico-dust@reddit
It's 100% real but it's a dollar store so you'd be working your ass off.
Unloading, loading go-backs, stocking, organizing the backroom, securing your box... if you're in your 20s go for it, you have energy to spare and it is a good workout. If you're in your 30s & 40s hard pass unless you're trying to get back into shape.
tonythebutcher13@reddit
That's not worth it, you don't know the bullshit until you're there, like other poor bastards have said, I would suggest getting into LTL
Erindil@reddit
S lakes worth.
CorrugatedSphincter@reddit
I did family dollar for a different company, out of the St. George DC, where you likely will also be. I had good stores and bad ones, maybe CR pays different, but I was not paid hours for unload, so "unload quickly". Fine, I can work hard and do that. Until the store worker is morbidly obese and caused what should have been a 2-3 hour unload take 6 with my rollers stacked all the way the whole time. Then I got heat exhaustion, pushing heat stroke in buckeye az because the trailers are hot. It's good exercise, but the headaches and dealing with slow store workers who do get paid by the hour taking their time and milking it just wasn't worth it.
Gonzotrucker1@reddit
Why not work for Cpc logistics and the Walgreens private fleet? Home every night, and $30 an hour with overtime after 8 hours. Itās the same thing just Walgreens.
StrifeLover@reddit (OP)
Desire to know more intensifies
Gonzotrucker1@reddit
Search Google for Cpc logistics
Blanc0_one@reddit
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unftp-0@reddit
Yeah probably 1500 gross. After taxes probably 1200. Not worth it unless youāre actually netting 1500
Eimar586@reddit
Go food service if you want to make 1500 -2000 a week gross. Took in 105k last year working 52 hrs a week
Israel_the_P@reddit
Itās not real
madbillsfan@reddit
You can bump docks and be home every weekend for the same amount coming out of school
sr1701@reddit
Get it in writing
Atruckerguy@reddit
Solid advice right there. Anything involved with a recruiter get it writing. If they say they cant its not true and its all b.s.
Atruckerguy@reddit
Well the main office is in SALT LAKE CITY so that much salt if that tells you anything. Lol Also little know fact about C.R. England is the grand dad his middle name is Knight as in Kevin Knight owner of Knight/Swift transportation. That should tell you anything else you need to know. Look it up on google in wikipedia if you want a source of information.
Imaginativested@reddit
Dollar general account pays more and the work is easier. Family dollar and dollar tree you are going to build a roller and hand unload every box by hand but dollar general does carts or rolltainers. The only guys that stayed on thoes accounts were mentors that had the trainees do all the work while they got paid for it. There was never a shortage of trainees because nobody stayed very long. Pay is probably right if you bust your ass.
Few_Interaction1327@reddit
Dollar Tree started moving to rolltainers in 2024. Only a few warehouses so far have updated.
Deep_Resource3081@reddit
You can make that type of money on these types of accounts, itās back breaking work and youāre hand unloading 2k cases each delivery. Plus youāre in the mountains, going on back roads, winter is almost over so next 8 months shouldnāt be that badā¦these stores have very tight parking lots, hard backing maneuvers etc. I have hired a couple drivers from these types of accounts, itās not something most people will do long term, once you get some experience you can find some better paying/similar paying jobs without the heavy touch freight
Megalodon7770@reddit
lol are you for real?
Fuzzy1598@reddit
My experience with family dollar is East Coast and USA truck. I was making 1500 average a week minimal effort. It was 200 a day and 450 on delivery days.
MostOriginalNameEver@reddit
Its not enough money for what it requires.
Capn_T_Driver@reddit
I worked Dollar Tree for Werner 2019-2020, and I can absolutely assert that--based on how it was for me back then--if you can do three loads a week, you absolutely will GROSS $1500+ depending on mileage and unload pay. My dispatchers liked me, so I sometimes got four loads, or I would get longer-mile loads; I frequently had gross paystubs over $1700, and a few over $2000. Being in IL that worked out to a NET earning of $1150-1500 depending on the total loads for the week.
However, the backing and labor was frequently a bitch, as other posters have alluded to. It's an account that rewards safety, hard work, good communication, hard work, safety, good communication, and hard work.
LankyEntrepreneur@reddit
They told me the same thing yesterday, I live in Vegas though. I did some research and you can make that much but the backing and physical labor is a bitch.
12InchPickle@reddit
Itās possible. My friend does the same account but with I canāt remember if it was Werner or Schneider. He told me he regularly makes $1300. So itās not too far off.