Roehl flatbed ?

Well what do you want to know? I drive for Roehl flatbed. Ask your questions

 

Well, I can answer a few of those, even though it was over 4 years ago when I worked there. Pay is $0.03 more for flatbed than for van. In 2010 pay was $0.30 for van, i know it's at least $0.32 now, but was recently told it's at $0.34 now, so $0.37 for flatbed. After A year you should be closer to $0.43. Miles wise, expect 2,000-2,300. You get paid for tarping and chaining of course, though I'm not sure how much. They pay extra for additional stops, extra for short hauls, extra for Canada as well. They are great for hometime as well.

 

When I was there a year ago, tarp pay was $12 for steel tarps and $22 for lumber tarps (the same pay applies regardless of how many tarps are needed for the load). Most tarped loads required two of the appropriate kind but in rare cases you could get away with one. Some loads of steel pipe required three steel tarps and an hour of time. Roehl's tarp pay is the only area where I found them to be below the industry norms.

$50 if you go into and out of Canada or New York City. Canada is for the paperwork hassle, NYC is for the general hassle.

Extra stops were something like $25. I think short haul (under 200 miles) was around $25 as well.

No extra pay for chaining, as that was considered part of normal load securement. Not sure if the previous poster meant load chains or tire chains -- I hadn't heard of any extra pay for having to throw tire chains, but I didn't go out west during the winter so didn't get to experience that.

 

My mistake, I thought they paid for chaining the load as well.

 

No worries; they might have "chained" their policy since you were there. Ha ha.

Forgot to mention a couple other things. Length of training depends on your experience level coming in. If you have no experience, you'll go through an extended orientation (around 10 days) plus 11-14 days out on the road with a trainer. The orientation includes 1 1/2 days specifically on securement training. If you're coming in with experience, you might just get a short orientation and the securement training, or just the short orientation if you're already done flatbed somewhere else and can demonstrate satisfactory skills.

They offer detention pay after 2 hours, but in practice it's very difficult to get...because for you to get the detention pay, Roehl customer support essentially has to get the customer to agree that they were the cause of you being detained and pay an extra fee to Roehl. Before you leave the customer's premises, you have to get the customer to sign the bill of lading indicating your arrival and departure times and that you were detained. This might have changed, but except in the most extreme cases I learned that it wasn't worth the hassle of trying.

 

going to gary,in for flatbed training monday

 

Keep us updated.

 

Might be starting training with Roehl flatbed in Phoenix. Sounds promising.