want to talk to drivers about roehl

HEY BUDDY I LIVE IN PORT HURON AND IM THINKING OF GOING WITH ROEHL, SO YOU GET GOOD HOMETIME HOW MUCH DO YOU TAKE HOME ON AVERAGE FOR A WEEK?? DO YOU GET STUCK WAITING FOR FREIGHT OR END UP AT SOME CONSTRUCTION MUDHOLE SITE TO UNLOAD. IF THERE HAVE A REFERAL PROGRAM MAYBE YOU CAN HOOK ME UP.

 

SOUNDS GREAT BUT WHATS THE COMPANIES NAME, I LIVE IN PORT HURON YOU KNOW HOME OF THE BLUE WATER BRIDGE, IM GOING TO TRUCKING ACHOOL NEXT WEEK AND IM STUCK BETWEEN ROEHL, MAVERICK(GLASS DIV) AND TMC, CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME ADVICE HERE

 

Started to work with this outfit in April,I have only driven 20,000 miles in three months. They have missed everyone of my hometimes,I have had 4 different fleet managers,and if you enjoy sitting around truckstops,running anal retentively legal,(2 days for 600 miles) then Roehl is the place for you.I tried to talk to these people to work things out,and they should be sued for giving me colon cancer from all the smoke they are blowing up my rear end LOL,I talk and nothing changes A summary of my weekly routine for the last three weeks:
Monday-unload in the early a.m.,sit till Tuesday no load
Tuesday-Finally get preplan at noon
Wednesday-A day of driving anywhere from 500-600 miles
Thursday-Deliver in the a.m. or early after noon,because Roehl can't do math or trip planning,sit and wait sit and wait,finally deadhead to Marshfield or whereever
Friday-run a buncha short loads to get to long loads for the weekend ( their idea of long is 1000 miles for 3 days)Get used to moving around mt reefers and vans,I had 3 of them in one day.
And then the fun starts all over in an identical pattern the next week yeah.....
So if this appeals to you call recruiting immediately,I have been driving for 14 years and they made no effort to keep me there so via condios.

P.S. tried to switch to vans and they told me it would look bad on me if i switched fleets.

 

HEY GUY THANKS FOR THE INFO NOT EVERYONE CAN ALWAYS GET 3000 MILES A MONTH, I NOTICE YOU SAY YOU BEEN TRUCKIN FOR 14 YEARS, THERES NEWBIES THAT POST ON HERE ABOUT THEIR WHOLE TIME THROUGH SCHOOL WITH ROEHL UNTIL THEIR DONE TRAINING AND HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED A TRUCK, AND THEY ARE PULLIN MORE MILES THAN YOU AND LOVIN IT, IV READ MOST OF THE BLOGS HERE ON THE BIGGER COMPANIES THAT TAKE NEWBIES.
IF I END UP IN YOUR POSITION AFTER 14 YEARS, PLEASE SOMEONE JUST SHOOT ME, THATS PATHEITC 14 YEARS WHERE HAS ALL YOUR MONEY GONE ALL YOUR TIME YOU SHOULD OWN 14 TRUCKS BY NOW,LOL
A FEW BAD APPLES SPOIL THE BUNCH AND YOU SOUND LIKE ONE OF THEM,
WAWAWA THIS IS ME, ROEHL JUST CALLED ME BACK AND THEIR A LOT NICER AND PROFESSIONAL THAN THAT

 

You should cool down, dude. You really are in no position to judge. Once you get out here for awhile, then maybe you will have earned the right to put your .02 in. You should be more concerned with getting on the Big Road, not trolling. The Roehl posts on here are about 50/50 good and bad. It's a decent company, but they have their issues. It doesn't work out for some people, and those are unfortunate situations. If what Traveler says is true, 20k mile in three months is definetly low. Worry about absorbing information, not pointing fingers.

 

LIES!!!ALL LIES!!! I WENT TO NTB S WEBSITE AND THIS IS THE PAY
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Start pay[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]28 cents/mile [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1 year[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]31 cents/mile[/FONT]
31 CENTS A MILE AFTER A YEAR, YEAH RIGHT, TAKE CARE OF YOU , YEAH THEY LL TAKE CARE OF YOU, THE WHOLE TIME YOUR 1500 MILES FROM HOME AND THEIR SITTIN AT HOME IN THEIR HALF MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE RANCH WITH MORE MONEY IN HORSES THAN ILL MAKE MY WHOLE LIFE USIN ALL THE MONEY THEY SUCK FROM THEIR DRIVERS TO INVEST ON SCOTTRADE.
1 year experience31 cents/mile2 years experience31 cents/mile3 years experience32 cents/mile4 years experience33 cents/mile5 years experience34 cents/mile

O BOY ICANT WAIT, NOW I DONT HAVE ALL DAY TO NIT PICK BUT LETS JUST COMPARE THAT TO PUMPKINHEADS PAY SCALE WHICH I HEARD A LITTLE LOWER THAT INDUSTRY STANDARDS,
½ - 1$.35
$38,000 - $41,000
1 - 3$.40
$42,000 - $47,000
3 - 5$.41$43,000 - $52,000 5+$.42 - $.435

AGIAN NTB:

Annual review1 cent increaseCap40 cents/mile
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Factory set at 65 mph[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]$0.00 per mile[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Governed to 60 mph[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]$0.01 per mile[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Governed to 55 mph[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]$ 0.02 per mile[/FONT]
GOVERNER BONUS WHAT A JOKE, 55 MPH MAX YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDIN THOSE SCOOTERS PEOPLE ARE RIDING AROUND ON WITH 150CC ENGINE GO FASTER THAN THAT

 

I have got to reply, I have been with Roehl for a little over 10 months now. Everytime it is time for me to go home it is a fight. Now as far as sitting that is someting I don't have to worry about. Being on the honor program and given a salary they make sure I run. I will agree as I have first hand seen mileage base payed drivers sitting quite abit while honor guys aren't. Basic economics, Roehl has given veterans a salary and if they are sitting Roehl is losing money. Does this make it fair? No way. I get preplans all the time that can't be run legally and I have to reject them. It as if the planners have no clue. I have learned that the national guys are lowest on the totem pole in their eyes. If you have a National and a hometime driver that live in the same city and have the same home day they will always give the load to the hometime driver because he slips seats and make the national driver be late for hometime. Roehl has changed just in the 10 months I have been with them. I have been thru several DSR's and they keep getting worst. Just my 2cents

 

I don't know, man. They don't run me as hard. I see some HP drivers say the same thing as you, and then others that run like me. It's like we are working for two different companies. I don't have to fight to get home, and I live in Florida. Maybe I just keep getting lucky.

 

I think alot has to do with our DSR. Yesterday I was in Ellenwood and was just talking with the office staff and one of them told me that the DSR can influence your mileage. My last Dsr seemed to get me quite abit more miles over 3000 a week but my newest one gets me around 2500-2800. I also get more loads with her but less total miles. A perfect example of what seems to be happening is what happened this last time out. I p/up a load in Arkansas and am told to relay it 120 miles to W Memphis. I get there drop and stay the night. In the morning I get a preplan that has me p/up the same load and relay it to Dayton..WTF. That is horrible planning. I have always been a proponent of Roehl but I have to admit the last couple months have been getting on my nerves.

 

Yeah, DSRs can really make or break you it seems. I guess I have been really lucky thus far. I get decent miles, I'd say I've been sitting right around 10k a month. I have only had a few issues here and there, and they've all been fixed. I've done that dumb relay thing. I dropped, picked up and unloaded another load, then was sent back for the load I just dropped. I've been doing a lot of rescues this time out too.