Roehl Transport

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if you do school its 3 weeks then out with a trainer. This is when you get paid 60 a day. The phase training is new so I'm not sure of time to get in a truck solo.
7/3 7/4 7/7
is 7 on and then 3,4, and 7 off.
and no pets here. Tho o/o can.

 

Thanks Hindsy. I am already in school so I will be a recent grad. How is anybody expected to make money with every other week off?

 

Well it really is nice for a guy that makes higher range cpm plus you get run hard that week I would imagine. I would love a 7/7 routine, but at the low end cpm its not a money maker for certain.

 

Raises at Roehl are every 90 days as long as you are a safe driver, maintain idle, standards and deliver on time. So I wouldn't worry to much about starting at .30 cpm. Also, detention pay, breakdown pay and layover pay are better than most carriers.

As to the pets questions. Roehl does not allow company drivers to have pets in the truck because they are self insured and it adds a lot of wear and tear on the trucks.

 

Are the 90 day raises achieveable? Or do they just look good on paper? Lots of companies offer raises and quarterly bonuses but very few are realistically attainable.

 

I've never missed a raise and never have to ask about them. They just keep coming every 90 days like clockwork. Gotten two so far in five months.

 

The "food" thing is not unrealistic. When I went through orientation they bought breakfast, lunch and dinner for all 12 of us that week while we stayed at the hotel. That was three days worth of food plus breakfast on Thursday which totalled 48 total meals the company paid for that week. Throw in the 6 lunches they bought for lunch that day for those of us who didn't leave with a trainer until later in the day, final total comes to 54 total meals bought and paid for by Roehl that week.

Roehl could easily factor in the cost of the meals and offer two different plans.

Plan A: Here is the cost of the Truck School with no meals paid. (Student pays for all meals)

Plan B: Here is the cost of the trucking school with the cost of 3 meals a day added in for 5 days a week for the three weeks you will be in truck school.


Now, in the highlighted part, I laughed at that comment. Not every one chooses to be unemployed. Not every person on welfare, WANTS to be on welfare.

Quit making assumptions and looping every person who is unemployed and/or on welfare into the same group. Your ignorance only continues to make you look dumber every time you post.

 

Good info here on Roehl, I'm headed there in a couple weeks for orientation.
I was pre hired by Schneider, Swift, Tan Tara, USA and CRST. Werner turned me down for some reason. Going with refrigerated, no rollerskate for this old boy. 54 y.o. ex carpenter and don't want to use up what good parts I have left tarpin. Can't do Canada for a few more years cause of a little infraction 16 years ago so no dry van. I have been told this and that by a lot or recruiters but Alice from Roehl has by far been the most straight forward of the all. She has gone above and beyond in this pre hire process with me..
.32 to start in the refer division, been told to expect 22-2400 a week till they get to know me. Phase 1 is 9 days of safety and job skills followed by up to 13 days with a trainer. The pay quoted in earlier posts is correct.
I chose Roehl after doing a lot of research and checking out many company websites. Had some pretty good instructors (I think) at Rock Valley College and was encouraged by the director of their driver training program to go with them rather than the above mentioned.
Seems most graduates from this area for one reason or another have to settle for Swift or go straight to Werner with a dollar tree route.
Personally, I'm lookin forward to my two meals a day! I was told lunch and dinner. I'm guessin there's a continental at the motel but have a backup plan if not.
I'm as eager and antsy as the other newbies here, starting my second career and planning on getting what I can out of it for 8 or 10 years before the rockin chair! The one down by the lake with the beer and fishing pole holders!
Kinda hoping my location works well for me, I'm about 5 miles off 90/94 on the IL/WI border. Already got a parking spot a mile from the house with landing pads and electric Anywho, been reading here for several months and want to say thanks for all the knowledge and protocol gained in various threads.

 

I knew I didn't want to do flat bed so I took refer when I first started at Roehl. My Orientation room mate also went refer. My training consisted getting trained on flat beds, van, refer and curtain while I was in Evo 1 and 2.

My room mate had Van training in EVO 1 and then Refer training in EVO 2.

They put him on Van at first and before they let him out of EVO 3 he had to do refer loads on his own. After two weeks of listening to him complain about Refer, I told my training fleet manager to leave me on Van in which they were very happy to do.

All I know is that he kept telling me they would give him a load, he would deliver the load, then he would have to sit for 2 days before he got another load. His experience as I said convinced me not to do refer with roehl.

Hopefully your experience will be a better experience than what my orientation room mate had. I know he stayed at Roehl three months longer than I did before he left and went on to drive for Crete.

Again, good luck!

 

What I'm writing is in response to what I highlighted:

Evolution 1 training: You are paid $60 a day

Evolution 2 training: You are paid $65 a day

Evolution 3 training: I was paid .30 a mile when I drove Van

This was last year in 2010 from the end of May to the beginning of August.