beware of roehl transport

Celadon would only let my guy put in an inverter at Stoops Freightliner because they insured it in case of fire--it would have cost over 500.00-no payment plan-they wanted it up front-and his biggest ck at Celadon was 425.00 so guess what we never got. I feel for ya.

 

If all this was true that you say, Then you should have pulled the qualcomm records-you do have the right to that, qualcomm messages are kept by the company for 6 months, and by qualcomm themselves for ever. You should not have had 8 boxes of stuff in the truck--way to much! Every place that I have driven OTR at, I had just enough stuff in the truck, that I could clean it out and be ready to go in 15 minutes or less, if you have that much stuff then you are not there to drive, you are there to live--probally some of your problem there. Also as far as them firing you--I beleive that they had every right to. You did something that was specifiacally said in the rule book that you cannot do and you did it anyway. They do this about the inverters, because the trucks wattage is not powerful enough to handle it, that is why if you need one in there(BTW, for a microwave is not a need at most companies)they must install it so it is done correctly. If you burnt theri truck up because you had it in there wrong, are you willing to pay the company $100,000 plus for the loss of that truck? I didnt think so, and they know this too. What actually got you fired is that, and that is a safety factor, I would have fired you too. Remember what got you fired is your attitude that you think you know better than the company does, obviously from your complaining about the dispatchers and the inverter and the mileage. If you had that much problem over there, why did you not quit and go elsewhere? That way you would have not been fired. You got terminated strictly because of your attitude and not because of the company's. I hope you learned something from this and the next place that you go drive at you have a better attitude and better outlook, or your results there will probally be the same. I have never driven for Roehll and dont plan to--but I can spot a driver form 50 miles that will be terminated from whatever company strictly because everything is always the company's fault and never his, and they are out to get him. Guess what? If you play the perpetual victim all the time, you probally will be one!

 

Well it is the drivers fault for not getting written approval for the inverter but it's the company's fault that they don't have inverters built into the truck already. If they are going to have a policy for the drivers to not install their own then they should already be in the truck.

Doesn't take to much intelligence to figure out that if you are going to send someone out on the road for extended periods of time they will probably want the use of a inverter to save them money on the road.

And don't say they can't afford it because IDC is a large company and their trucks have them built in with regular outlets in the truck to plug into.

Drivers should be asking about these policy's before signing on so it won't be a issue afterwords.

 

You say you have worked for Roehl for 18 months. In August of 2007 you failed your CDL and would have to wait at least a month to retest. Which would mean that the earliest you could have gone to work at Roehl would have been September of 2007. I am not trying to be a jerk but by your own post from the past you could not have been employed by Roehl longer than 14 months and out of EVOIII for longer than a year. I know I will get bashed for pointing that out but if part of what you say is a lie then the rest must be taken with a grain of salt.

 

rich, check your PM.

 

You are still blaming the company..you still dont get it. They are all wrong and you are all right. Dont insult my intelligence, and I dont have to know you in order to judge your attitude. And dont even come on here and use the old tired out line that "these companies are eager to put stuff on DAC" This proves right there that you are new and dont know what you are talking about. The facts are that these companies are held by law to what they can and cant put on your DAC(if you actually read some of the other threads I have discussed this fact myselfand so have others)there is not a lot of room on the DAC to put filler, it is more of a multiple choice type of answer, if you actually pull your DAC(which you have the right to under the Fair Credit Reporting Act once every year) you will see that the DAC is not quite the way that you think it is. Those of you that think that these companies are all eager to put a bunch of stuff on your DAC, really dont have a clue, you have an attitude problem and personally we dont need any more of that in this industry, we have enough of it here already--so yes they were within their rights to fire you--it really doesnt make a difference about the permanent connection, ect whatever. You violated a rule and they terminated you, my guess is this was not the first time.