questions about roehl

I'm not saying they don't train in other places, I'm saying their CDL school is in Marshfield Wisconsin only. The drivers you are seeing are Phase 1.

Taken directly from the Roehl website
http://www.roehl.jobs/drivers/inexperienced-truck-drivers

[h=3]Phase 1[/h]You'll learn The Roehl Way of Protective Driving along with the policies and procedures that’ll lead to your success. During Phase 1 your training will be a combination of road driving, closed quarters maneuvering, and classroom curriculum including logging, trip planning and satellite communication training.

Almost all companies will have some sort of orientation that usually covers some classwork, range driving, backing skills, road driving, then a training period with a trainer.

There is a separate section for it you need your cdl.

I wouldn't have drove 5 hours past Gary to Marshfield, if I could have gone to school in Gary. I'm actually going to finish the school, and drive back to Gary for securement training. Why would they have me go to two locations for the CDL School and then additional training if they offer the school at each one of their terminals?

csw1818, if Roehl is in your top couple companies, talk a recruiter and find out where they're sending you.

The 7/7 is a national fleet, but you still need to be back for your home time, so they take that into consideration as to when and where they send you. Regional work in a pretty large area, I believe they have East coast, Midwest, and west coast, I'm not sure if they split that into north and south or not for your region. You will have a full sleeper. Day cabs are for local jobs where you are home every night.

The issue a lot of people have with the hometime fleets (7/3 7/4, 7/7, 14/7) is that you are sharing 2 trucks between 3 drivers usually. IF you would like your own truck, you would have to go national or regional.

As far as going otr or regional straight out of school is up to you. I wanted to go otr out of school because I want to go all over, and not be "confined" to the north east/east coast. I've already seen that. Maybe in a year or two, but not now.

 

Actually I am a trainer and I'll settle this for you. We are setting up a cdl school in Gary as we speak. It should be operational before mid summer. Regional is regional. Canada to Mexico. They are still trying to figure out if there will be a south east only regional too but don't bank on it as of yet. Appleton is getting a similar training program. And don't listen to the website. It hasn't been updated for a year.

 

Thanks buddy. I appreciate it. Its a shame they didn't have the Gary school up and running yet, considering I drove through it to get here. Oh well. It's been a good experience either way. Thanks again for clearing that up.

CSW, yeah, that's how I was when I found out you slipseat a while ago as well as the guy in my class who originally signed up for the 14/7.

 

Be glad bud. Gary terminal is junk. All the other things I love about roehl and our other facilities are nice except that one

 

True, but it would have been nice to shave some miles put on my car as well as a tank and a half of fuel. I'm sure I'm going to become quite familiar with that Terminal as a flatbedder anyways.

 

True on both counts. But Gary Is getting better. Just over hauled and re molded it. Now if they could get some mechanics

 

They were redoing that place when I left, did they not finish it or did they just not do it right?

 

And fix the #### road. I hate that place and avoid it at all cost.