life at Roehl ...grc

Not yet! Don't be surprised if it does, though.

 

They have some trucks that are doing electronic logs now. I think they are trying it out. Besides they monitor your logs by qual comm as it is.

 

grc56 Please keep us informed on your life on 7/4 7/3. I left the hometime fleet last year in March after slow freight in the first quarter brought my miles down to under 1500 for several weeks. I hope you have better luck with it than I did. One thing to watch is when you launch on wednesday with a good mileage trip you may not deliver until after 12:00 on Friday and therefore have nothing to scan for the week. I do miss the hometime, and was wondering if anyone is running the 14/7, and how is it working out?

 

congrats grc56 on getting in 7/4 7/3 in sharonville, hope they treat ya good on the miles, im 7/4 7/3 out of st louis and the miles are hit and miss as oldguy stated. I think team roehl corparate is showing signs of pulling there heads out of the sand on pay issues and options, i wish they would do the same with there winter driving tips. Idle the trk so it will start and idle trk to warm fuel before driving, thats fine but are they going to cut us slack on the idle time that ends up going against us if we dont get the miles to run idle time back down ! I can only hope!

 

What if there is 30-50 miles of deadhead? That usually puts it just over 100 miles.

 

I did the same thing with the implication that there would be lots of freight for those of us that were out there. I then spent 54 hours sitting in Mankato, MN the two days after Christmas, and another 34 hours the following weekend.

 

I was considering the same thing, but will give the 11/3 a little longer to see how it settles out now that the holidays are behind us.

My FM says that I am doing well, so we'll see what the future holds.

 

That's great to see. I'll be interested to hear your reports on how this works out for you.

 

Ah, yes, balmy Mankato! The only Minnesota city that never drops below 70 all winter. Good thing you weren't stuck in New Ulm.

Back when the internet was brand new, college students had a habit of treating what they read on there as though it were textbook-accurate. So a Minnesota State, Mankato professor who taught a computer class put this website up to prove to his students that you can write anything you want and put it on the net.

Kinda like here.

It's still up if you look for it - I'm not sure if posting random links is permitted.

Oh, yes, life at Roehl. The week before Christmas and the week after were pathetic for me. I'm glad I went home then. Should've taken vacation for it - that will be my plan next year because it's the only way to make money at the end of the year.

I'm out for a long time now; long enough so that I can move when I get back. Long story involving my half of the driveway not getting plowed and a "no shoveling" sign going up in my hallway. The new landlords said I can shovel whenever I want. Ahem. So I went to Pennsylvania and then Connecticut and I'm on a Massachusetts to Florida run right now, and there will still be 11 days to run after that.