Life After Roehl

I am with pa and nootez as far as routing....it seems they just look at miles of the drive and if its shorter...well your stuck...or if its a toll road they will try to route you through the backwoods....all that does is eat the crap out of your hours...which are our hours not the companies hours....its how we get paid..... also it seemed lately they are trying to limit driver miles...you will go for broke until aboout 2500 miles then you start sitting between loads...or you get that odd ball load that is great miles but delivers friday afternoon...so it won't go for current weeks miles.....the reefer fleet was notorious for it....

Speaking of miles....those of ya that are still there add up your routed miles and see if it equals paid miles...lanners b teamover the last month I had issues with that too...my paid miles would be about 200 less than routed miles...(mostly because of the toll road in PA).... it starts adding up after a while...

as far as safety as a cornerstone value...my ###..they would rather send you through downtown chicago on 94 rather than use 294....also that bs onguard system i had on my cascadia would almost lock up my breaks because of a bridge pillar..or a car that cut in front of me shooting for an off ramp....

I still think roehl is a good company for new people...but after a while somethng just wear on ya....
I will say i generally got home when needed except this last excursion...but I think thats due to the planners b team....

 

it's funny because I expressed interest in running the fuel routing program. It's my opinion that it's a very cool tool, however it's a tool. You can't just look at a spreadsheet and say "look at all the toll cost we avoided". You need to take a big picture approach and figure out what's doing. Some new routes are good, others are bad. From a company standpoint a driver burning miles running a route to save a buck to two bites them in the ### also, let's say you're now 30 minutes short of picking up another load. Was the $24.17 worth not having one more load in the system? Some times yes, most times no. Anyways, I didn't even get a sniff. Maybe I'm too much of a jack-### or something to be taken seriously, but I really do think I'm smarter than I let on.

 

Thing is theybhave a New program orbare upgrading the old one tomorrow cause i got a qc message about it before i turned my truck in...

 

Exactly. I considered the routing and turning the trucks down both pay cuts. I also understand about the tolls, but when it adds two hours of unpaid compensation to my day it got old fast. Combine this with less miles, higher insurance, and the rest of the anal retentive BS I got out when I the chance. I now work for the railroad. There is plenty of BS on the railroad too, but the pay, home time, benefits, and retirement can't be touched by any OTR trucking company.

 

Etch5858 Are you SNI choice or SNI system (with a dispatcher)?

 

Load assignments for the week? Roehl planners would have a heart attack if they had to do that. Maybe when they were smaller it was easier to fly by the seat of their pants, but with 2000 trucks, time to fix something.

 

Texas I am on the choice board, we have a DSR but I only contact her if a issue comes up. I have been on it 2 years and really like it. I live in Plano and keep my truck at the OC off IH20. They have a good freight base here in Texas so loads have never been a problem.

 

New companyy gives me a warm fuzzy so far....not a whole lot of bs so far....and the mechanics here are bored they hqve nothing to work on except a floor drain..lol

 

I just spoke to one of yours, he says he gets paid really well but he doesn't get home very often. I think he tried to park me in, but I was too smart for him and parked somewhere else. I told him he'd have to try harder next time, seemed like a decent fellow.