Impression of Roehl so far

As I posted in another thread, I talked with one of my former trainers at Roehl and he told me " I am quitting after 12 years and over 1 million miles with Roehl because the miles are awful and the driver support is nonexistent." This man was a trainer and he only confirms what my 14 months with this company proved to be, they only care about training students, not retaining drivers.
Some of you may claim Roehl to be a "good company" or "better than the rest" and I will disagree. However, the trainers and recruiters are primarily the benefactors of these claims. You may go in with a good attitude, but you will probably leave with a bad one. I fell for the hype and was absolutely disgusted for 11 of the 14 months I was there. Why is there such a large number of students and so few trainers? Hmmm. Whats wrong with this picture? You be the judge. But beware, new drivers. I know you have to start somewhere, but beware of promises that seem to be too good to be true.

 

Amen, brother. Out of your entire post that last sentence pulled it all together.

If more truckers applied that logic there'd be a lot more happy individuals driving down the road. Instead, they take the easy way out and just try to place blame. In pretty much every profession you need to take control of your career because nobody is going to do it for you. Take the things you can control and make them better. If you don't have direct control, offer constructive advice to help the other guy. In time, you will reap the benefits of that as well.

 

Actually, there is a wall full of people with anywhere from 10-30 years experience and well over 100 with a million plus safe miles.

Just because you can't get on with Roehl, don't go bashing a decent company.

Anyone else smell SUPER-TRUCKER????

 

You are correct in as much as getting in a Swift, Schneider, or J.B. truck would pretty much end it for me also. It is such a shame that you have to endure the " lesser of the evils" to get "experience" in an industry with the attitude dominated by total disregard for drivers. If you must rate them all together, then, yes, Roehl at least makes you run legal, and they will get you SOME miles. But they promised me a great deal and DID NOT DELIVER! I was with them over a year, stayed out for over two weeks at a time and had ONE late delivery on my record. (11 minutes, but yes, it's still late). My gross pay for the year was a paltry $30,241 and I was home 93 days for the year. I spent the rest of the time in truck stops on weekends waiting for my support team to find me work. I begged , asked what could I do better, man I even interrupted home time to help these people out of jams. And I made 30,000 dollars for the whole year. And I had to live in the truck off that while I tried to support a family. Not quite the 38,000 they advertise. (36-42 or whatever, you get the point). But while you rate everyone together, at least recognize that all of them leave very much to be desired.

 

Wow! In the past few months it has gone from famine to feast! I'll have to take your word for it. I would never, ever go back to Roehl. It was one of the most disgusting experiences of my working life.

But I suppose it is okay for you.

Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year

 

I have enjoyed all the post on this thread. I start my 3 day orientation Dec 3 2007 in Gary IN. From orientation I start my Evolution 2 with a trainer. I look at a lot of companys and Roehl seem the best for me. (6 Months before I went to School) I did not go with Roehls School, I went to Apollo Truck Driving Career Center. This was a 6 week Corse. 8 days of classroom the rest behind the wheel. All of my trainers where great! I have my CDL with all the endorsments. I will be in the midwest van div. From all the good and bad I heard about Roehl I think I made the right choice. The bad I read about Roehl was very little and the ones that had a bad taste would have the same on all companys they work for. (I hope) I will soon find out. So far the contact I have had with Roehl has been very up front. Other companys I have read about put up a lot of RED flags with me. I hope all I have read about Roehl is the real truth. If so I will enjoy working for them.

If you would like me to post my experience let me know.

 

Hello,

I am wondering what kind of tractors they have for regional and what their trucks are governed at? I am looking at Roehl and Schneider as possible choices for my first. dcodd, all the information has been helpful on how Roehls training is.

Kinghunter

 

Mostly Freightliner Columbias... governed at 65MPH by the rev limiter.