Layne, Erin, Smiley, you guys still around

Word is Smiley is not a happy camper. I don't think she even comes on this forum much if ever.

 

There's more people missing than that. How about Dr. Venture? Remember like a year ago, he and Etch would defend lease-operating. Now Venture is silent and Etch is leased onto Schneider.

 

I am leased with SNI now and it was the best move I could have made. Spin you make it sound as I was wrong for defending my decision to lease my truck back to Roehl. I was a company driver and decided that I needed to make the most out of trucking and it wasn't as a company driver for Roehl. My income nearly tripled after my fuel and truck payment were removed from my income. I did buy my truck outside of Roehl. I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND BUYING YOUR TRUCK FROM THE COMPANY YOU LEASE WITH. After a year of running for Roehl as a O/O once again it was time to make the most of being a O/O. I had realized that Roehls program was pretty weak and thier was much more to make out there. I looked at only programs that offered a percentage. It came down to Landstar or SNI's choice program. I chose to take my truck to SNI and haven't regretted it on bit.

 

Spinpsychle Are you still with J&R, if so hows it going?

 

Yeah. I haven't talked about them much. Let me be as concise as possible.

At Roehl, once they switched me to a deficient truck, my batteries would run out of energy while I was home. I kept having to call breakdown, each of the last 5 or 6 times I started up for the 11 days. I'd wait on hold for a half hour, then the first few times they'd tell me to try to jump it off of my Corolla, then I'd have to call back, wait on hold half an hour and tell them what happened and then they'd finally call the service truck. An hour later it would show up. It would take at least a half hour to get it started. I'm not getting paid for any of this.

Eventually they figured out my Corolla cannot jumpstart a broken-down Frieghtliner (in theory it should, though) and stopped asking me to but the rest of this ordeal was how I went to work every other week.

They brought me to Gary, and they changed one of the four batteries. With three deficient batteries and one good one the pattern just continued. If you ever run across truck 4365, ask the driver how the batteries are holding up. And how he plans to survive the winter with idle standards but no APU.



While driving for J&R, my APU broke. Maintenance answered the phone immediately, we talked about the problem, and they determined it needed to be fixed at a shop. They put me in a hotel for the night and arranged repairs the next morning. I had the problem for all of one night.

If Roehl ran the way Schugel does, we wouldn't be searching for Smiley, Layne, Venture, etc.

 

What about home time,miles, pay,ect.

 

Run like hell, reset at home (which I get to exactly when they say I will), pay rate starts at 36. Only catch is that most of the trucks are Internationals.