Recent Grad looking at Roehl Transport

Stay out 3 weeks with roehl and be home 5-6 days. Ull make much better money plus if you can actually trip plan ull run decent miles. If you can't run over 2800 miles a week your doing something wrong, roehl isn't.

 

This whole "military friendly company" thing is a ruse. It is purely a PR game that companies use to attract applicants. When in the seat, all things are equal. Being a vet is not going to change a thing after the job starts. I am a Viet Vet and it didn't mean a single thing in a truck in the last 32 years I have been at this.

And it is darn right criminal that a person, new or seasoned, should have to stay out for weeks on end to make a good living. I know of many companies that have drivers home weekly or at most in 10 days, and it has no effect on earning. Many of them 48 state carriers also! Keeping drivers out longer than that shows a problem with freight planning and operations. The driver has to pick up the slack for mismanagement. While it might be argued that I am in a different situation, owning the truck and many years experience, most all of the company drivers at the carrier I am with run an average of nearly 130,000 miles a year and are home almost every weekend and EVERY holiday, unless they specifically ask to be out. This is a job, not a military deployment.

 

Although I do not agree with how they take an approach to the claim of being a "military friendly" company, there actually are benefits for troops getting out that have the GI Bill and have money left on it. They can claim it as "OJT or Technical Training" therefor qualifying to receive a monthly stipend of whatever is mandated for the zip code that the company is headquartered at. So for instance, Roehl, if my memory serves me right, allows people getting out to get an extra 1200 per month for up to 2 years. Since this is a VA direct payment, it is not paid by the company but paid by the VA tax free directly deposited in to your account.

 

I have no problem with that, but companies who take advantage of that are not necessarily "military friendly". They are just capitalizing on an incentive. And they must be benefitting from it, or they wouldn't do it. I have no problem when folks take advantage of a program or incentive to do something. It is when they try to wave the flag in my face and play some plastic patriotism game for PR purposes while at the same time they are lining their pockets.

 

As a vet that drove for Roehl I dont have a lot of bad to say about them... Or any good, for that matter. You get a sticker on your truck. Their safety program will set you up for success in getting hired in the future, but you are just a number. If you already have your cdl. Shnieder pays more for vets. But in reality it doesn't matter who you work for to get that magic number to get a good paying job.

 

How so? When I talked with their recruiters I was going to be paid just as any other employee except you get the GI Bill the same way ROEHL and TMC and other companies do under it being a "on the job" training experience. Of course, that was if I went the CDL school route prior to going there, which I didn't and went to Knight.

 

As I have understood it, they start you off as a one year employee rather than a new new driver.

 

I only ran for Roehl until I had the experience for food service. But be sure you want to use your GI bill for just the money, it will pay for most technical training. Otr is about the same as being deployed... Truck stops even smell like fobs.

 

And Roehl doesn't do safety/performance bonuses... They give you an extra penny until you #### up (most likely you will #### up) and then they keep the penny for two quarters.

 

No SNI does not offer you to come in at a 1 year pay grade. The only company that I seen that did that at all (give an actual CPM advantage for military vets) would be Crete where you come it at 37 CPM. Which is the 2 year mark but you are stuck at that until you hit your 2 year mark before gaining any more raises. Also, just because your being paid at that rate, does not mean it came with any seniority, it was just pay.