Roehl Transport - Are times changing?

Blagoje · May 6, 2023

Opus said: ↑

Don't sign for registered mail
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They are sending me emails and text messages now

slow pok · May 6, 2023

They will garnish your next ck biggest scam since bottled water

KaoMinerva · May 7, 2023

Tadakatsu said: ↑

Here's an update, less than a week after rail arbitrarily terminated my employment they have begun with their collection efforts to get the $7,000 for gycdl.

Moral of the story, if you sign a contract with this company for gycdl under no circumstance are you able to not pay the $7,000 amount. If I could do it all over again I would not have signed up with Roehl because of this contract and this contract alone.
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You'll be fine. It'll go to collections and they'll attempt to settle. I never signed a contract, but many many years ago this happened when I left Werner.

I owed like 7K+ but eventually settled for $1500 with the collections people. I hope your journey is better. It's only up from here. Be safe driver...

Stringb8n · May 7, 2023

Tadakatsu said: ↑

They informed me that I was having my employment terminated because I reported some flat spotted trailer tires a few weeks ago and also they said that a customer was upset with me last week.
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I am guessing they did not really explain what the relevance of the tires was exactly? Are they saying you violated policy because you pulled the trailer with the presumably bad tires? Or did you not pull the trailer and they are terminating you because you wouldn't pull it with the bad tires?

Tadakatsu said: ↑

They are sending me emails and text messages now
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I would block their number(s) as they come across, in text messages or calls. I would also block their email addresses.

Another post on this thread from @KaoMinerva stated that he had never signed a contract...did you sign a contract there with Roehl for your CDL program training or whatever it was you feel like they are going to try to collect on?

snowmantrucking101 · May 7, 2023

Tadakatsu said: ↑

First off let me start off by saying that I was fired by Roehl Transport today, completely by surprise but I also have had a bad feeling about how things have been going with this company over the last month and never felt that great about the company ever since I got out of their GYCDL training program.

Let me start off by saying that Roehl offers excellent training be it their GYCDL program or any other additional training afterwards. I was very impressed by everyone that I worked with.

Most recently I had applied to work in a different position 6 weeks ago and had been getting told ever since that I would be getting moved "any day now" and get a different truck to do the job. After I officially moved into that new position I retained the same truck for the duration, which was a special truck used exclusively for a dedicated customer account with different (blue) paint and decals than a regular red Roehl truck. I came to find out after being paid for my first load in the new position that I was being underpaid by 16 cents per mile. I had signed up for the new position because it was substantially higher in pay with more potential miles and travel opportunities. I contacted payroll about this last week and was informed that I would be paid at the lower rate no matter what which I was very confused about and reached out to my management for answers. They were very wishy washy with their response asking if I ever transferred into the higher paying position in the first place? I would like to think so considering that I had been hauling that specialized freight for 3 weeks at the time. In the two weeks that followed I had by mileage severely cut, I had been averaging about 3000 miles per week previously and now I was only getting about 1200 miles.
1) How long is left on the contract?
2) You could arrange to make monthly payments & walk on..
3) NEVER get under another contract of/for employment.
4) Help spread the word on slim shady Roehl.
I started to feel like something was up and no one was communicating to me what was going on. So last week I only worked 3 days and finally received a new assignment this week. As I was driving to work someone to management called me to ask how close I was to the terminal? I told them and they said that they would call me back in a half hour or so. When we did speak again they said they needed to read me something (I was like what now in my mind) and I would have the opportunity to ask questions afterwards. They informed me that I was having my employment terminated because I reported some flat spotted trailer tires a few weeks ago and also they said that a customer was upset with me last week. I asked them to further elaborate on those reasons and they said that they did not have any further information to share with me. I have no idea what they are referring to, I guess I am getting blamed for the flat spot tires even though I remember reporting them immediately upon being assigned that trailer and submitted pictures per company policy. I am very confused about this upset customer because it was not addressed with me at all over the past week and I don't even know who or what they are referring to in terms of them being upset and for what reason?

My only hope now is that the $7000 amount from the GYCDL contract does not get sent to collections for me to pay. I don't know but I suspect that I will start getting collection calls about that soon enough. I hate this company for always holding that over our heads and I now wish I would have gone with another company just to avoid that dread contract. I have been hearing from so many Roehl drivers in recent times that have left be it after their contract was up or simply quit. Many people like myself are getting fed up with the pay and lack of work with this company.

So any recommendations for a CDL A driver with 8 months recent experience are welcome. I have done dry van, reefer, flatbed, conestoga, curtainside, and step deck van (paper hauling). Schneider, K&B, and Oakley Florida all hit me up today.[/QU
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Tadakatsu said: ↑

First off let me start off by saying that I was fired by Roehl Transport today, completely by surprise but I also have had a bad feeling about how things have been going with this company over the last month and never felt that great about the company ever since I got out of their GYCDL training program.

Let me start off by saying that Roehl offers excellent training be it their GYCDL program or any other additional training afterwards. I was very impressed by everyone that I worked with.

Most recently I had applied to work in a different position 6 weeks ago and had been getting told ever since that I would be getting moved "any day now" and get a different truck to do the job. After I officially moved into that new position I retained the same truck for the duration, which was a special truck used exclusively for a dedicated customer account with different (blue) paint and decals than a regular red Roehl truck. I came to find out after being paid for my first load in the new position that I was being underpaid by 16 cents per mile. I had signed up for the new position because it was substantially higher in pay with more potential miles and travel opportunities. I contacted payroll about this last week and was informed that I would be paid at the lower rate no matter what which I was very confused about and reached out to my management for answers. They were very wishy washy with their response asking if I ever transferred into the higher paying position in the first place? I would like to think so considering that I had been hauling that specialized freight for 3 weeks at the time. In the two weeks that followed I had by mileage severely cut, I had been averaging about 3000 miles per week previously and now I was only getting about 1200 miles.

I started to feel like something was up and no one was communicating to me what was going on. So last week I only worked 3 days and finally received a new assignment this week. As I was driving to work someone to management called me to ask how close I was to the terminal? I told them and they said that they would call me back in a half hour or so. When we did speak again they said they needed to read me something (I was like what now in my mind) and I would have the opportunity to ask questions afterwards. They informed me that I was having my employment terminated because I reported some flat spotted trailer tires a few weeks ago and also they said that a customer was upset with me last week. I asked them to further elaborate on those reasons and they said that they did not have any further information to share with me. I have no idea what they are referring to, I guess I am getting blamed for the flat spot tires even though I remember reporting them immediately upon being assigned that trailer and submitted pictures per company policy. I am very confused about this upset customer because it was not addressed with me at all over the past week and I don't even know who or what they are referring to in terms of them being upset and for what reason?

My only hope now is that the $7000 amount from the GYCDL contract does not get sent to collections for me to pay. I don't know but I suspect that I will start getting collection calls about that soon enough. I hate this company for always holding that over our heads and I now wish I would have gone with another company just to avoid that dread contract. I have been hearing from so many Roehl drivers in recent times that have left be it after their contract was up or simply quit. Many people like myself are getting fed up with the pay and lack of work with this company.

So any recommendations for a CDL A driver with 8 months recent experience are welcome. I have done dry van, reefer, flatbed, conestoga, curtainside, and step deck van (paper hauling). Schneider, K&B, and Oakley Florida all hit me up today.
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sevenmph · May 7, 2023

slow pok said: ↑

They will garnish your next ck biggest scam since bottled water
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If in his signed contract it says they can take money out of his pay for school (I bet it does) then they can take it from his last Roehl check.
But to garnish pay from another job will take a court order. Now there are situations where they might have you sign a voluntary garnishment. Check your contract. If so this is easily revoked with a simple email.
Check the Roehl contract to protect your future earnings.

sevenmph · May 7, 2023

So I had a thought about this situation. Is Roehl cutting driver numbers? If so are they starting by trying to find reasons to fire the drivers that they will he able to collect school money from? Sounds far fetched? Not really.

Blagoje · May 7, 2023

Metalicious said: ↑

I am guessing they did not really explain what the relevance of the tires was exactly? Are they saying you violated policy because you pulled the trailer with the presumably bad tires? Or did you not pull the trailer and they are terminating you because you wouldn't pull it with the bad tires?

I would block their number(s) as they come across, in text messages or calls. I would also block their email addresses.

Another post on this thread from @KaoMinerva stated that he had never signed a contract...did you sign a contract there with Roehl for your CDL program training or whatever it was you feel like they are going to try to collect on?
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As far as the tires go, company policy is to thoroughly inspect every piece of equipment as part of a pre-trip and effectively what happened was I picked up a trailer and did not notice that it had issues with certain trailer tires and thus I got blamed for it because I did not report it immediately as part of the pre-trip. It was dark when I picked up the trailer and I was in a bit of a rush to get to my next appointment. I did report the issue when I stopped the next time but apparently that's not good enough for Roehl.

sevenmph said: ↑

If in his signed contract it says they can take money out of his pay for school (I bet it does) then they can take it from his last Roehl check.
But to garnish pay from another job will take a court order. Now there are situations where they might have you sign a voluntary garnishment. Check your contract. If so this is easily revoked with a simple email.
Check the Roehl contract to protect your future earnings.
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The thing is I have requested the contract to review with my lawyer and they've never sent it to me no matter how many times I've asked. At this point I'm thinking that they're just going to try to bully me into paying them through a collection effort. If I don't pay my credit gets screwed up and I've actually had this happen to me before about 15 years ago and it took about 10 years to get my credit back to 800+ after I refused to pay.

sevenmph said: ↑

So I had a thought about this situation. Is Roehl cutting driver numbers? If so are they starting by trying to find reasons to fire the drivers that they will he able to collect school money from? Sounds far fetched? Not really.
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Everybody that I know in the company has been complaining for months about lack of loads and pay.. it would not surprise me if they're just cutting people lose knowing that they can come after them with collections to get that contract money from them. If I could do it things all over again I would have signed up with Prime in large part because their contract stipulations in terms of money owed is not so punitive.

slow pok · May 8, 2023

They have plenty of lawyers. They will garnish your next ck . They will not accept a payout. They make a killing off this even though they broke the agreement. It's there second scam seen a few punished with this. Eversince the old man retired it whent to crap used to be a good company

dave01282000 · May 8, 2023

I always saw it as something to prevent drivers from quitting early and didn't even think in terms of a company letting people go and then add insult to injury by going after them for training money.

They must be a pretty big size because I see their trucks often...knew nothing about them until now.

It hurts to read...sorry you're having to deal with this.

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