Going O/O with Roehl

ETCH
Coming from 7/4 7/3 how long do you plan to stay out with your own truck?

 

Congrats and good luck on the switch Etch!!

 

Sweet deal etch.

 

I always wondered about that when I was a company driver at Roehl. I would barrel up on and pass an owner operator or lease deal operator at a whopping 62 mph in my company neutered truck quite often.

My question is do you have to really go so slow (i.e. 55 in a 65) just to make a buck with their deal?

Roehl is the only company I've seen out there where the O/O's and lessors go slower than the slow company trucks and it's by choice.

Now I am local and barrel up on an orange trailer and start to pass in my 75 mph company truck and the O/O for the orange trailer steps on the gas even though they were already doing 65 and I sometimes have to back off and get behind them.

What's up with O/O's going so slow at Roehl? Do they still have you set for an overspeed on the QC? What's up with that? Always wondered.

 

Etch,
I tried sending a private, but i don't have enough posts. I was wondering if you dropped your old volvo off at the gary terminal? I've seen one parked there for a few weeks now, and it hasn't moved. I'd like to drive a volvo (considering I might like to purchase one in the future) and figured since my fleet manager is going to try and find me a truck with an apu, I'd make it easy and just request your old truck.

thanks
joe

 

Joe ~ If it's the Volvo that is backed into the bobtail row by the orientation building, it doesn't run.