Roehl o/o question

9 times out of 10, its one of the 2007 Columbia's that they bought in masses back then. sometimes you get lucky and can get something different, just depends on timing.

 

Im no authority on being a O/O, but common sense says remain a company driver
with all the benifits. Start getting your financial house in order and also get a savings account built up. You will need a substantial amount for down payment and a maint fund. There are way to many guys that jump in head first with bad credit and no savings thinking with hard work all will work out.

Sorry but those people are the ones that end up in worse financial shape than when they started. Make a plan to buy a truck. Do not lease, all your doing is paying the company to drive thier trk and all with no benifits, read the O/O thread on roehl.
A lot has changed just in the last six months, with roehl O/Os leaving left and right.

You are young and have plenty of time to get that big ole 379 pete and make it ur own with a proper business plan. Good luck to you and be safe!

 

I've toyed with the idea of having my own authority, but I think a good compromise would be Landstar or Schneider Choice. You get the freedom to choose your own loads, a large company to stand behind you and find loads, but without the headaches of doing your own fuel tax reporting, setting up your own drug testing program and all the other issues.

There is a lot more to this whole o/o thing than just the ability to choose where not to go. Anytime you say you won't go somewhere you've cut down on the available loads. There are plenty of loads I would take, but because of the way Roehl does their dispatching a lot of times I have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. That's why I don't like take it or leave it dispatching. You have to trust that your dispatcher has your best interest at heart. In my case my dispatcher has demonstrated repeatedly that he does not.

 

"There is a lot more to this whole o/o thing than just the ability to choose where not to go. Anytime you say you won't go somewhere you've cut down on the available loads. There are plenty of loads I would take, but because of the way Roehl does their dispatching a lot of times I have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. That's why I don't like take it or leave it dispatching."


Thats an easy one Preacherman, just find a company that runs the areas you like to run, in the last week and a half I cant remember running this hard for Roehl and I'm not out in areas where I have to wait to get loads to get home, stop looking at the mega carriers and yes Roehl went that way and look for the 25-150 mostly truck o/o companies then decide

 

Knowing your personality is also a factor. I am much better suited to a system like Landstar or Schneider choice. I'm very independent, but not a detail guy. So all the paperwork involved with my own authority wouldn't be pretty, but I want to run my own business, not have someone sitting in Appleton or Marshfield trying to run it for me. He has his own agenda and it doesn't match mine.

By the way, you have to adjust your business as circumstances change. You may want to go home, but the loads say stay out an extra week. In my case I've tried ten days, then bumped it to fifteen and now I'm looking at twenty-one days out. Basically I'm looking at doing three weeks out and one week at home. I've talked to several owner-operators that have found this schedule works well. I just want to avoid giving my family the short end of the stick. I'm hoping this will increase my miles/pay into the area I've been looking for while still preserving my family.