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Roehl is My Choice

Discussion in 'Roehl' started by grusco, Apr 7, 2012.

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  1. Apr 9, 2012 #11
    Treefork

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    I've never been inspected either and 90% of the time I get prepassed.
     
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  3. Apr 10, 2012 #12
    Last_over_hill

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    It's 36 cents a mile? Ok I stand corrected. Sorry bout that mistake
     
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  4. Apr 10, 2012 #13
    grusco

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    Roehl has discovered my clean driving and criminal record (it's a shame that's even an issue) and my conditional employment offer came this morning. :biggrin_255:

    I'm committed to a local school district to drive a bus until the first week of June. My step-daughter's high school graduation event is June 9th...my training begins June 11th. Van, national fleet training in Appleton.

    Roehl is setting up a physical with a local clinic so that will be out of the way long before June 11th. The company will set up a car rental for me to make the drive from near the Twin Cities over to the Appleton facility which is about a 5 hr drive.

    I'm very ready to get this underway!
     
    grusco, Apr 10, 2012
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  5. Apr 10, 2012 #14
    TexasPhoenix

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    Good deal. Welcome aboard. You will be meeting Claude in Appleton for training. Great guy...always will to help out when he can. Roehl will give you a good driving foundation. I started out with them as a company driver. I returned to them as an O/O. I like their operation and know how to get the job done by their rules. The company isn't for everyone but learn what you can and try to stay at least 1 year. Looks good on that resume.
     
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  7. Apr 14, 2012 #15
    grusco

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    It's not a day I'll soon forget. I've been hauling 60 to 70 kids around in a 40 foot school bus for a few months so I'm a bit used to commanding a larger vehicle. But not the one I drove today.

    As a CDL student at a private school on weekends we've been mostly driving around the lot, doing some straight line and offset backing. Shifting up and down on the low side. Today that changed. For the first time I sat in driver's seat of a day cab with a ten speed and 42-foot empty trailer and hit the road. The instructor directed me out on the 30 mile an hour street toward the highway. This may seem tedious but it's amazing how the little things can be such big things when your completely out of familiar territory. Left hand turn from a stop light, roger...take another left and down a 35-mile an hour frontage road. When approaching a red light keep it in 6th in case the light changes. No? OK, stop and go to 4th. Don't shift in the turn. On and on. I've decided to join Roehl in mid June and I'm so far from ready.This was the longest 8 mile drive of my life. It's a humbling experience. It completely uncovers the rookie I don't want to be. But I am.:biggrin_25524:

    Do you remember your first time?
     
    grusco, Apr 14, 2012
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  8. Apr 14, 2012 #16
    T-Lady

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    I remember my first time driving a 72 passenger school bus at the age of 19...I remember my first time behind the wheel of a Freightliner quad axle dump truck at 31...and I am re-experiencing the "holy WOW" of driving a new kind of BIG for the last week here in Marshfield at the tender age of...yeah, whatever. That 53' trailer we're being taught to keep between the ditches is something else.
    It'll come to ya...you drive a little while, you observe most of the time, and you have time to figure out what you did wrong and how to do it right on the next try. It's a wunnaful thing!!
     
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  9. Apr 14, 2012 #17
    RigMaster

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    Now these types of posts are what this site is all about! Thanks yall! BTW, I'll be headin' to Roehl once I get the call. Coming over from Stevens.
     
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  10. Apr 14, 2012 #18
    windsmith

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    Some things to consider:

    Pulling reefer gives you the option to take van loads AND temperature controlled loads. So you have more options open to you when freight is slow.

    If van is the most common freight out there, then that means that there probably is also more competition for those jobs. If you have reefer (or flatbed) experience, those jobs are now open to you when you're ready to move on, and you're not limited to only van experience.

    I'm of the opinion that one will have a better and more stable career in trucking when you have more than one skill set to draw on.

    Just my thoughts.
     
    windsmith, Apr 14, 2012
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  11. Apr 15, 2012 #19
    grusco

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    That is really good thinking! As was already said on this thread "this is the kind of stuff this forum is all about". thank you! I'm going to reconsider reefer.
     
    grusco, Apr 15, 2012
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  12. Apr 15, 2012 #20
    T-Lady

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    and I've heard the downside of rerigerated hauls...gotta be ready to deliver at odd hours (3am, anyone?) not uncommon to sit quite awhile waiting to get loaded/unloaded, etc...more maintenance with the reefer trailer as well. It's the nature of the beast, more "stuff" means more that can go wrong.
    Not saying don't do it, just don't go in unaware.
     
    T-Lady, Apr 15, 2012
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