Roehl Transport's new Pheonix van fleet...

A new EXCITING opportunity for people who don't care they lose their car/home to the repo man or their wife to a REAL man who actually makes a living! In exchange for NEVER being home, you get a MAXIMUM of 2200 miles a week and an average of $648 gross pay! Isn't that WONDERFUL?! Good luck hiring drivers or getting them to stick around... IDIOTS (Roehl).

 

I was there for 17 months. My first year was... meh... OKAY. I was grossing about 800 a week (after hometime factored in) so I wanted to complain, but knew I shouldn't. Then, my decent dispatcher, Lori Scarpaci, got moved to cover a different fleet for a dedicated customer. I then got stuck with an idiot (I can't remember her name, but she had an attitude of superiority because she had a college degree and I didn't) who had me averaging less than 300 miles a day repowering loads for students that were out of hours (because they were averaging 550+ miles every day), got me home late four times in a row, and balked about me deadheading from Appleton to Marshfield (72 miles), where my car was, to go home. Needless to say, I dumped the refer fleet and went van. BIG mistake. My van FM was one of those morons who was always outside smoking, or in the bathroom because of his colitis, or jerking off with the other FMs with his back to his computer, just like they always were. I sent HR a pic I snapped on my phone with an entire row of FMs with their backs to their computers having social hour that I titled: "Why Roehl drivers aren't getting any miles and are losing their homes/cars".

My miles got WORSE as did my paycheck after switching to van. The hometime got WORSE too. 1700 miles a week avg. I slept in my bed that I paid for at home under the roof I pay for a grand total of 39 times in 2011 and made an extremely LOUSY $36.5k doing it. I think my total TAXABLE income after the end of the year days out on the road tax write off was only 15k. Shouldn't a trucking company be EMBARRASSED when one of their full-time drivers qualifies for foodstamps/medical assistance/housing assistance? Aparently Roehl wasn't. Thankfully, I now work for a small produce outfit called Potato King out of La Crosse, Wi. The proof is in the pudding. I slept in my bed that I paid for, under the roof that I pay for a total of 109 times in 2013, and made $52k doing it... while making "less" cpm but getting paid HUB MILES, not HHG/Practical imaginary miles, so it actually ends up being about the same once you shake it all out. The difference? I work for a company that pays ALL their drivers the same cpm, so there's no "students get all the miles" games, and they actually UTILIZE their equipment and drivers! What a concept! Almost triple the hometime for more than 30% more pay? Yes please.