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I drive for Roehl. Let me be very clear on this. I drive for Roehl but I want to be proud to drive for Roehl.

I run into you year or less drivers at Gary, Marshfield, and Ellenwood. With pretty much the same problems. They gave me bad directions, the route they gave me was a dirt road, DSR wrote me up for something minor and I lost my bonus, everybody says what a great company this is so what's wrong with me (this guy was almost in tears).

I am not the guy sitting in the drivers lounge engageing in conversation, I am the quite one sitting in the back listening and wondering why has Roehl takeing things so far?

New driver misconception: The directions placed into the system have been given by a proffesional driver. Wrong, our directions were taken out by a student who replaced them with mapquest 2 summers ago.

New driver misconception: If you see bad directions simply send the corrected directions to your dsr who will fix them. wrong, your dsr forwards the directions to cutomer service who deletes them. Doubt me send in some directions to ABC company. write down your directions or changes in your notepad. About a week later ask for directions to ABC company. LOL keep a positive attitude, this is only one of many things
I think it is great that you are giving us honest input and having some of us see the realities of the company and the industry. One of the things I like about Roehl is that the contract is only for a year, whereas many other companies have longer contracts for the drivers they train. Swift, for example, has a 26 month contract! If the situation is that bad, I like to think that I can change companies after a year instead of 2+. And, from reading the boards, Roehl has a much better reputation that Swift or CR England. So this is why I hope to be in training with Roehl in a few months. I am very appreciative that you are telling us the information that you are so it won't be a surprise later.
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My goal is not just to warn you and others of "surprises". The real goal here is to wake up some people at Roehl and say "hey look at what is really going on here down at the ground level" My goal is not to have you or anybody else turn away from Roehl. Every company needs to keep a vigilant eye on everything going on around them. In my opinion Roehl has turned from a great company who worked hand in hand with its drivers to a beauracratic nightmare. I have seen DSR's reading this site at the Gary terminal and would find it hard to believe that marshfield would be any different. Maybe one of them will see thru the venting that I am doing and say what can we do to fix the problem. Might even someday see a poster with all there hands next to their ears saying we are listening.
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My goal is not just to warn you and others of "surprises". The real goal here is to wake up some people at Roehl and say "hey look at what is really going on here down at the ground level" My goal is not to have you or anybody else turn away from Roehl. Every company needs to keep a vigilant eye on everything going on around them. In my opinion Roehl has turned from a great company who worked hand in hand with its drivers to a beauracratic nightmare. I have seen DSR's reading this site at the Gary terminal and would find it hard to believe that marshfield would be any different. Maybe one of them will see thru the venting that I am doing and say what can we do to fix the problem. Might even someday see a poster with all there hands next to their ears saying we are listening.
I can understand your frustration. I have had a few similar experiences with places of employment going downhill. Why do you feel that things are going south at Roehl? Are they getting too big? What is the reason for the beaurcracy?

I hope that somebody who can make changes does read your concerns so that you can be as proud of your company as you once were.
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My opinion as to why things have gone downhill. Fear. This industry is very fluid and in order to be a good dispatcher you have to be able to make a decision. Now it may be a good or a bad decision, but sometimes it just has to be made. The planners have taken away the DSR's ability to make load decisions, Customer service has taken away the flexibility of the DSR's ability to make corrective decisions. Basically we as drivers lost a very important tool. That is our dispatchers flexibility to solve problems.

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Driver: I will be mt in 30 minutes anything on a preplan yet?

DSR: I will get with the planner

Driver: "Endures silence"

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Driver: I am delivering at ABC company. recorded mesage at delivery. No live person to talk to. Do they have overnight parking available?

DSR: I will get with cust serv and let you know

Driver: "Endures silence"
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I can see how that can be frustrating. When did they create the DSR position (as opposed to having a dispatcher)?
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Thanks for being easy on new guys!!
I have some questions about rdtc, evoi,evoii.. I know it the cost for entry is 550.00 that covers permit, dr. Exam ect.. And i have to pay for
food.. But the 60.oo per day is for evoi and 65.00 for evoii,
my question is when do the evo's start... After you pass your cdl exam..
Or is it after 3 weeks of on site traning???
Thank you for any input
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EVO training begins after your three weeks at RDTC. First, you be required to surrender your home state drivers license and get a Wisconsin CDL on your last day in Marshfield. Then you'll return home and transfer your CDL back to your state. Once that is done you'll notify the training department and fax them a copy of your license. Then you'll be set up with a trainer. Could be two days, could be a week. All depends on who they have available running around your area.
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