Getting tired of the Roehl game

Sayter, they run you up to the Northeast because you are paid less as a SE regional driver. Normally, they would have to pay a National driver, whom earns more. Roehl always test the waters to see who they can do this to. Its been going on along time. Also, Etch5858, I enjoy your self glorifying post. I was reading your post about the arrows drivers and how big your charitable heart is. Good for you. Also, your not going to be retiring soon as you claim. Your not making $200 k per year, that is your gross revenue, then you will have your net, which you will be lucky if its 70k. You wont be retiring on that unless your going to be living in your truck.

 

I understand that part of trucking is that you go where the freight needs to go, what bothers me is not having a plan to get you out of a dead area. This is especially true with the home-time fleets. Someone is waiting on our truck, so home-time and pay involve two drivers and not just one. Don't give me this garbage about loads being a last minute thing, take a look at the load boards and you'll see shippers are arranging loads days and sometimes weeks in advance. If Roehl isn't getting these loads, maybe someone needs to take a look at customer service/sales.

 

Well, If your finances are that great, I dont understand why you are driving a truck. Why live in an 8X8 box for weeks at a time? Only people with few or limited options due to where they live or other special circumstances do this. So, if your so well off, why drive? Quality of life is everything. Why not be spending time with your wife instead of with bearded strangers at truckstops? Does not sound like you were blessed to me. Leave God out of it.

 

Don't bother ETCH, you shouldn't have to explain yourself and Mr. Negativity won't get it anyway. Do what you love, love what you do. I know quite a few guys with Masters and PhDs that are driving trucks because it's what they want to do. Nate is a troll, just look at his previous posts. Nothing nice to say, just looking to stir people up.

 

The hardest thing in the world is to not "live someone else's faith." What I mean by that is you hear preachers and others telling people that they shouldn't take jobs that require them to work on Sundays and how they should live by faith. The problem is that everyone has different circumstances and comfort levels. I hate being on the road and if a job presented itself to work 9 to 5 I would give it very serious consideration, yet I know people that are nomads by nature and love always being somewhere different. Myself, I'm a homebody, and couldn't conceive of the idea of being gone for three weeks with only seventy-two hours at home, but I know others that live in their trucks by choice. We are all different and happiness is finding your niche in life and then staying there.

Etch if you like the life of a nomad more power to you, just be sure and hang it up before you lose your ability to drive and become a danger.

 

I never met a preacher that didn't work on Sundays and didn't expect a paycheck for it. Have they considered this when they advise other people to live otherwise?

I am very sympathetic to preachers in general, by the way.

 

He is only 42. How is he going to become a danger?
Give me a break!

 

I enjoy nomadic type work myself, that was the main reason I started driving. Some people like others to poop in their mouth, really, literally. That ones for you Dr. Venture. I like reading between the lines. I doubt Dr Venture knows "several" people with advanced degrees that are driving trucks for a living. Ive been in and around this industry a good many years, more as a non-driver, I know how it works and I know profit margins. So Etch, if your happy, then I guess ignorance is bliss. Don't bs drivers about how your getting rich driving for Roehl as an O/O. Dr. Venture, go watch some more cartoons.