Ill be going to Roehl soon...

Shotsjc good luck with RDTC... Just keep an open mind, and open ears, and you will learn alot. I should be back to work by the time you need a trainer, so you never know you might end up with me. LOL... Most of all have fun with it.

 

I plan on learning everything I can absorb while in training and after too. I really enjoy learning new things and can't wait to get there. I have always wanted to do this. I was signed up with a cdl school a few years back but had some stuff going on so I put it off till now. It would be kind of cool getting you as my trainer as we kind of met in here already. Lol. I like all music except opera, I don't smoke, and I always try to find the fun in things. Lol.

 

Shotsjc, have fun, and you will do fine. There are lots of good trainers out there, so no matter who you end up with you will be fine.

 

I'm lost allready, i know i need traing, but all these term's i never herd before, like rtdc, evol, ect, do i need all this as i have my class a cdl , just need a refrsher course, too me trucking too me is like riding a bike, you never forget how, i know alot things they never teach you in school, like my first back in dock, doc manager asked how many pallets and do you want the chimmy stack load or what way you want you wanted it loaded, i said chimmy is fine, i didnt have a clue what he was talking about, but since then i made several charts too help me load trls, all differnt,

 

We have a guy in my class that had to stay all 3 weeks...he drove for over 10 years but has been out the last 3 years and they made him come to the Roehl Drivers Training Center (RDTC)...
Evo's (Evolutions) are continued On the Job Training it is in 3 phases EVO I and II are with someone and EVO III is all by yourself...

 

Hi, okay thank's, are the truck's 10 speed's super 10, or auto's and are the range truck's same as your road truck ,you be issused upon get done with training

 

The trucks are 10 speeds, and the training (range) trucks are similar to the trucks in the fleet (or so I am told), they used to be in the fleet but have since been turned to training trucks...right now in Marshfield they have a ton of new international prostar plus's lined up to get stickers or already have the stickers and are just waiting on drivers to show up...word has it there are alot of new guys getting new trucks when they finish EVO II because the company is busy renewing the fleet...

 

Getting a new truck amounts to just timing. If you're set loose they will give you what's available. New or old... I'm kind of fine with my POS it doesn't have any of those timers on this and that. Heck knock on wood its working fairly well lately.

 

What do you mean by timers? Like the apu or something?

 

Hindsy, thats what I am told it amounts to quite a bit of timing on wether newbies like myself will get a new truck or not...hopefully your POS will get traded soon...they have quite a few new trucks sitting in the marshfield yard waiting to be processed in and at the mid states truck sales next door has alot of new internationals waiting to go over to the yard...and in back are a ton of old ones...I see new internationals coming over to the terminal daily...