Stay away from ROEHL!!

I hate you all

 

That's right. It's an operations issue, meaning the word has come down from the top of the company. And guess what? Safety is also an operations issue.

If you link pay to efficiency, does that effect safety?

Common sense tells me it does. Efficiency and safety are opposite ends of a spectrum. You link pay to efficiency, and you can preach to me all you want, but you have proven to me what you really want - efficiency is where the rubber meets the road. A driver must balance safety with efficiency.

If you don't link pay to anything except driver shows up for work: there is no such thing as too safe. There is no limit. The safest drivers are the ones sleeping in their trucks at Publix. You institute safety bonuses, you then limit efficiency.

Follow through on your train of thought. Safety is not only in the hands of the driver. It's in the culture of everyone in the company, and is actually set by management. And how a driver is paid sure as hell has something to do with it.

 

Start a new thread if you want to. Until then, yep Roehl has some issues. But by no means are they a BAD carrier. It may not be a fit for you, but it's better than most.

 

I look at it this way...its their equipment..they will tell me to go where they want it fixed..it is up to me to tell them if it is possible for me to make it their safely and without further damaging equipment that is already shot...yeah you may have to bend over and take it but again its not my name on the door...I do what I am told..if I don't like it I still do what I am told but ##### about it while doing it otherwise it won't get done...
I have had issues on the road...on night in GA it was raining and my whole wiper arm fell off..not the blade the entire arm...I tried everything to get it to stay on...I pulled into a truck stop called maint...and since it was on the weekend I was told to wait until 05..wasn't an option for me so I went in bought some JB weld and fixed it myself and claimed the JB weld on my trip sheet...big deal...sometimes you just have to do what is best for you and your situation...
sometimes the office people aren't as informed or have the sense of urgency that we do on the road...and vice versa when it comes to the load planning....sometimes that 99 mile run will set you up for a 2k run somewhere else...
but like meltom said Roehl does not fit everyone, and everyone is not fit for Roehl..

 

if they "told " you to rob a bank wouid you do it ? If you have an OOS type breakdown and they "tell" to take it somewhere to get it fixed then its on you even if the "name on the door " is not yours.... They can never "ask " you to break the law can they ????

 

Which bank? Like BofA? Probably.

 

F&& yea !! do chase too they,ve been robbing us blind for years too !!!!

 

BAD is subjective. They are BAD to the original poster, which is why we are all in here.

EDIT: just for the record Mel, "most" is subjective too.

 

Without going back and rereading....hasn't the driver been there two years?
If you are not happy at your job move on...and that's any job, quit b!tchn' and make your life better...
He get's asked for by name from customers to haul there freight...
If he is this good, no reason why he can't take his cdl and move on.
Sure the economy is in a stink hole but as good as he is claimed to be he could be in a new seat in a matter of days!
I can't help but think that the "wife" is not getting the whole truth.
Likewise what is posted here is missing some facts.

 

I believe there are 2 OTR companies in the Midwest that pay there drivers by the hr and then give bonuses based on efficiency and they seem to be doing fine.

One of the reasons OTR was exempted from fair labor standards was because of the freedom of the drivers once away from the terminal. Now companies know where you are, how long you have been there. The only reason they still want the piece rate is because they don't want the added efficiency requirements that would go with a hourly rate. It is now cheap to have extra drivers sitting around doing nothing and say there is a driver shortage.

Why do you think EOBR are still manual input when not on line 3? because they don't want the driver to count the actual working hrs. Just the driving hrs. This means that no matter what a driver does they have to try to make up any short comings by the company or shprs and receivers or loose pay.

You have 70hrs in 8 days so you pay a hrly rate for that 70hrs. If the driver is a slacker then you do what every other company does that pay by the hr. You get rid of them.

Any OTR driver has been to customers and seen local drivers come and go while they sit waiting to get unloaded because they have a sleeper and are not on the clock. If they where you would not have whses keeping you their till they felt like unloading you because no one would haul their frt

Many local outfits and LTL pay by the hr and have some of the best safety records in the industry and some of the best drivers. The sky will not fall if OTR drivers are treated like other workers.