ROEHL BOUND... June 14th... Relief and excitement!

Oh I do remember that now...

 

We're going to stop doing that. I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but it turns out, if you put take a flatbed student and put them in a van for a few weeks, they realize that flats sorta suck, and don't want to return to the division. We were literally losing too many flatbed students, so we're going to stop letting them know what hauling a van is like.

 

I know that all of the students that I get that are flatbedders, want to pull curtain side when they get done with me. Tarps in this weather suck. Even the curtain side has its drawbacks this time of year. I am home right now nursing a hurt back, from fighting wore out equipment in the cold.

 

Good, maybe that means their will be more flatbed miles for me, if I ever get to orientation,LOL.
Lived and worked outside in the northeast all my life (well all but about 2 yrs spent in virginia back in the 80's) so no stranger to freezing your ### off and dealing with the mess.

 

Hello all i am working on getting to orientation as well mcarpe paper work well i am going to Roehl and just came out of TDI out of south bend Indiana i am eager but some of the post even though they are older make me a little apprehensive of my choice i want to haul flatbed i am bigger guy so cold i laugh at it but the fact that i haven't heard a lot of terrible things makes me alright. This is a big change for me and know what the life entails hope to see some of you out there good luck mcarpe

 

The initial pay differnce doesn't make flatbed very attractive for someone going to Roehl. The more miles and freight options with the van division means you run more miles with van. Those extra miles in van tend to surpass the extra pay of flatbed. With Roehl most flatbedders makes less than thier counterparts in the van division. When all is said and done it is all about miles and keeping the wheels turning.

 

hay thanks alot for the cool input that puts it into prospective i am going with refer unit and it will start me off and freight never slows down cause people need to get there eat on everywhere