Any Questions about Roehl??

You won't be living at 70. Trucks are governed at 63.

 

70 mph was my magic number and I could only hit that sling shoting the hills. You could hit 70 but you'd need to get it under 70 within a few seconds to avoid generating a qcomm message to your fm regarding speed. That might vary truck to truck. Mine was 70.

When they first ended the APU/Inverters in the trucks the policy was you could buy one and have Roehl put it in but it stayed with the truck. I never considered that bad deal so I wasn't aware that might have changed.

Regarding the money; you can move up the pay levels quickly at Roehl with the new pay plan. You can get your TWIC, Passport, Haz Mat endorsement, etc. Go reefer or flatbed. Be accident/incident free. All those things increase you rate per mile. There is no substitute for staying out. You can have good pay or lots of home time but don't expect to have both.

Do the math. If you can get to $.35 a mile x 2200 miles a week =$770 per week. So, how much money is good money? When you have that good money number in your mind, figure out how many weeks you have to work to hit that number. What you have left over is your home time. Like I said before, good money and good home time might not be mathematically possible. Only you can answer the "good money/good hometime" question because only you know what those "good" numbers are.

I stayed out long periods of time because my wife works and all my kids were grown and gone. I made good money. Hometime was adequate. When I quit after almost 5 years I was maxed out at $.43 a mile.

 

I bounce off 70 all the time, never heard a word about it. Never hit 75, not with Roehl anyway. But yeah going downhill loaded easy enough. Sometimes I use it to get by a Conway governed at 62 or something.

 

I've been with the company almost a year on flatbed and have not pulled any of that yet. (If by "roll on roll off," you mean heavy equipment, excavators, etc. where you'd use a removable goose-neck (RGN) trailer.) Roehl does have some of those kind of trailers though.

 

It is not true the longer you stay out the more money you make. There are more hours available to work if you run hard, then reset, then run hard again. The key is to take your reset at home, not at a truck stop. If you stay out longer than six or seven days you are always bumping your 70 and are more restricted on the hours you can drive each day. I made more as a 7/7 trainer than I did as a solo driver staying out weeks at a time.

 

I mean things like trucks, military vehicles, etc. I saw a picture of a Roehl truck on their facebook page transporting a military truck, that's why I'm asking. Think that would be interesting to haul. Also, what's your average take home pay for the flatbed division?

 

I've hauled plenty of tractors and other equipment that is driven onto a full-height or stepdeck trailer either at a dock or with a ramp. It's no different than hauling other types of loads.

Take-home pay or even gross pay has too many driver-dependent variables to give a meaningful quote. I get at least the number of miles each week that I was told when I joined. The Roehl driver recruitment website has (last I knew) an estimator for weekly pay for various hypothetical scenarios; I'd recommend checking that out.

 

These loads are fun



But these loads comes with free court side tickets sometimes



Just remember to secure your coils, or else

 

...and what's the reason for flatbedding again?

 

Soon to be student @ tdi in tn do u guys hire from this area