What are the disadvantages with working with roehl

You are responsible as a flatbed driver for securing your load. If things aren't right and fall, not only are you liable, you could kill someone, including yourself.

 

First off, I want to point out how incredibly uncomfortable this question makes flatbedders. So, I will try an answer hypothetically. If you have a Steel Coil on your flatbed while you do donuts in a walmart parking lot, and it comes off, bounces through the parking lot, and comes to rest in a ditch, or culvert. your company has just bought itself a steel coil, and they're writing a number of checks to walmart, and whoever picked up the coil.

If, on it's way to the ditch/ culvert, it runs over a minivan with a family of four in it, (three dead, one injured.) Your name is going to be on the list of people being sued.

If, a chain breaks, and part of it flys off, and cracks someone's windshield, the company is going to spend a lot of money on lawyers to convince people that the windshield was already broken in that pattern. And yes, they will spend more than the windshield would have cost.

Do loads gets secured improperly all the time or is it a rare thing to happen for the average joe who pays attention?[/QUOTE]

 

If you are that concerned with load securement, maybe dry van would be a better choice. No matter what you pull you are responsible as a proffesional
driver for the truck, the trailer, and the load. Roehl is a good company to drive for. home time and pay varies depending on what fleet you decide to go with.

 

A little history note- Lincoln was the lawyer that won the case establishing an employer is responsible for the actions of their employees. The case was a conductor who put a passenger off a train in the middle of nowhere.

I'm not a flatbedder, or a lawyer, but I would think as an employee you are financially covered through your employer's insurance. There could be criminal charges, but that would depend on whether the incident was foreseable. An example would be a blown tire that causes an accident. In the end there is no simple cut and dry answer.

The biggest issue I have with Roehl is with the miles. While some drivers do well, most seem to be well under the national average for weekly miles. The national average is 2300 a week, but with Roehl you should figure closer to 1800. Flatbed could be different since I am a van driver in the o/o fleet and before that I was on the 7/4-7/3 hometime fleet.

 

I don't know how it will show up but this is what Ive been doing, I keep track of my miles(per day, week, month, and trip)

 

also keep track of my fuel economy

 

Nice charts.

 

Their a work in progress. I'm glad I had those Microsoft office classes in high school lol

I'll be posting my miles and fuel economy at the end of the month to show everything.

Ethan