Stay away from ROEHL!!

I'm in the driver lounge, ill meet ya down at the smoke pit in a sec I'm wearing a black freightliner shirt

 

Where I live if I wanted to go the company driver till retirement route I would be looking at ABF, R+L, or MBM. The pay, hours and home-time would be much better. My personality dictates I go the owner/operator route.

As for loosing out on detention pay for being late, your qcomm in the truck shows the time you entered the arrival call even if the system is down. That gave you the evidence you were on time. Sometimes you have to be proactive to get the extras. Personally I never count on any detention or layover pay from any company.

 

Can you explain what are some of the comapanies are out there? Mabey why you feel so strongly abaout them

 

That might be the dumbest thing you will ever do!

 

Drive for another union company..or join the ranks of Werner? is there an option C for shoot me NOW?

 

Thank you! Exactly my point! Why does Roehl have to set itself up as a starter company? Because they have gone the Schneider Werner Swift route! Well, nobody said they had to! And add to this the old man who started the company loved the drivers, was a driver, the drivers were the precious resource of Roehl. His son takes over the company, a businessman who knows drivers as a commodity, was never a driver, and the drivers become numbers, cogs in a wheel, as someone else said on this thread. And so, Roehl becomes a coolie carrier.

By the way, I work for a starter company that has mostly daycabs - home every night, starting pay is prolly about in line with Roehl, pays for orientation (Roehl doesn't) pays for meals on the road, furnishes you with a tire pressure gauge for every truck, doesn't charge you $10? $15? for a fuel filter wrench for your company truck if you want to keep up maintenance while on the road for however long, doesn't charge you for strap winders, and uses ACTUAL BUNGIES instead of those cut up inner-tube bungies that are basically useless because the old man's other son, the son without the brains in the family, took over shop operations at Roehl.

Roehl is a cheap company that recycles new drivers in when older drivers move on as a way to save money on driver pay. It's a coolie carrier. It didn't start out that way. It made a choice to become what it is: top of the dregs of the trucking industry.

I don't mean to rant, but ####, the Roehl cheerleaders seem to have taken over and Roehl seems to be better than CSX! ExxonMobile? Walmart? Nah, I'll stick with Roehl! Thanks though!

What the new drivers need to know is the good and the bad of Roehl, not someone blowing sunshine in their ### 24/7, and getting them juiced up to sign on with a coolie carrier. If you get them juiced up to sign on with someone, let it be someone like Gate Gas, also a starter company by the way, where you would be home every night, and who pay you by the hour, and pay you for orientation, and I don't imagine they would charge you for your prepass (nickel and diming it all the way).

And one last thing to the newbs, going into Canada is not worth it IMO. Look at the amount of time you will spend getting all the paperwork together and placing phone calls and faxing crap back and forth, and look at your first check for those loads. Add it up.

Now, onto your reactions, which may be more defending Roehl to the very death, or may be more productive, like huh, well, you can start out at Roehl, but this is what you have to look out for, this is what they do badly. That's what the new drivers need to know.

 

it's cool that you don't like Roehl, I'm all for it. There are things I don't (didn't) like about Roehl. I wouldn't go quite as far as you do, but then again there are times I want to be taken seriously. Throwing personal insults out there takes away from the validity of your post.

 

No I seriously doubt union drivers make more than me, but they do half the work that I do for almost the same amount. And I just do not like unions, no need to dig any farther than that. Like I said before roehl is horrible. Worst company ever. Good companys are listed above, walmart, nestle, any private fleet, and a ton of small carriers. If you only put negative things in your life don't expect positive results. Most of the complaints are valid, but also found at dang near every other large carrier, so stop whining grab your steering wheel make money and go home! It's really that simple, that's what new drivers need to know, do your job stop complaining, get your year in and if your happy stay if not leave, its honestly that easy.

 

Yea looking back at that statement, I think I would go to mcdonalds instead and flip burgers