Aug 5 2013 Gary Indiana

Good for you. Best of luck to you.

 

what flatbed fleet orientation are u attending; which company?

 

He posted this in the "Roehl" forum area, so it is fairly safe to assume that it is Roehl?

 

No, they prefer it to be neat though. I tried facial hair when o got out, years ago, couldn't take it, pretty much kept haircut too. Short hair is much easier to take care of on the road.

 

Very, very true.

Typically 8 days, they will have you pulling flatbed trailers around a range next to the Gary terminal and then on local roads around there. Also some classroom time where they go over topics like trip planning, rules of the road, Roehl company policies and procedures. One and one-half days specifically on securement training, split about evenly between classroom and live training out on the flatbed trailers.

You stay in a reasonably-nice hotel about 10 minutes from the terminal and will have a roommate. They come pick you up from the hotel each morning in a minibus / van and drop you back at the hotel at the end of the day. Meals are provided; you get to choose items from the menu of a local restaurant that's near the terminal. They go get lunch for you and stop there again on the way back to the hotel at the end of the day. The food is good but by the end of the eight days you'll perhaps have grown a bit tired of the selection.

After orientation, you will go out on the road with a flatbed trainer for about 11-14 days, then return to a terminal where you will test out (pretrip, road test and written test). For info on the training phase and testing out, check out this thread: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ehl/204603-roehl-phase-3-life-after-rdtc.html