Roehl Transport

What, exactly, is your complaint here? You're on salary, right? Why are you concerned about miles?

 

I think he said he wasn't concerned about miles, it was the dishonesty. Please read all of the post, then make a comment.

 

Okay, children, what's so dishonest about the Honors Program?

 

My DSR was such a fanatic/control freak i had to quit. I arrived at a consignee 9 hrs before I had to deliver the night before. At 7 am I went into the office and turned in the papers and docked my truck. At 8 am I was done and requested my next assignment. My EVO III DSR said that she noticed that I arrived at the consignee # 10pm and how did I get unloaded right at 8pm which would have ended my 10 hr break. I told her how and she said I violated my 10 hr break.

I know rules are rules but 5 min to turn in papers and dock a truck shouldnt be a violation of the 10 hr rule to me being that I was on private property.. I had to take a trip to Marshfield to be wrote up. None the less I quit because if they can be that anal about something so minor, I can only immagine if something big was to happen. Homeboy was right about this company. They are great at somethings but in others they are just like the others.

 

This doesn't surprise me anymore. They have way too many of these college kids in there doing dispatch work, and not enough people who know what it's like on the road.
I am lucky because my dispatcher is an ex-flatbedder who has at least been on the road and knows what we go through.
I would like to change fleets to get more consistent home time, but I don't want to change DSR's because it's a crap shoot as to what you will get.

 

Some very interesting posts here. Although I am retired now I still enjoy reading the posts on this sight. My last driving job was with Roehl.I have driven for several other outfits over the years and to me Roehl was the best one of the bunch. Of course the old MS Carriers was a first clas outfit as well.What you all have to remember is that trucking is a different kind of life. While driving for Roehl I had some undesirable loads,mixed in with the good ones.Thats just life in the trucking industry.Makes no difference who you drive for,you are gonna have some bad days.After all you are working for a company that has freight that has to be delivered.During my stay at Roehl, I had a few issues with them,but I could always straighten them out by calling my fleet mgr. As for log book issues,yes they are very strict on the logging. I had one issue on logging and got it cleared up with a phone call to the safety dept. No matter what path you take while working for someone you are gonna have bad days. If you cant handle that you had better move on to something a little easier.

 

I do this all the time and no one has ever said anything. I also do not start my day until I have a new dispatch. They do this stuff with new guys for about the first six months, after that they cut you some slack.