Going to Roehl, have questions and need advice. I'm going flatbed.

Trip planning will seem difficult for some at first but once you get it and it clicks you'll know exactly where you stand.

Usually now I can get a pre plan and look at the miles and the delivery time and date and know right off the bat if I'll be able to do it or not.

True trip planning comes in to play when your running on recap or borrowed time from previous work days. The e logs will help greatly when it comes to that.

Ethan

 

recap is always fun, especially when you run hard and realize you dont gain any hours the next day

 

Thank you so much Ethan! It is very helpful to have all of you filling me in. Did all of you get an actual job offer aside from a prehire letter or anything?

 

Not for me, I applied to Roehl and they were the only ones I applied to. I put all my eggs in one basket. I believe i made the right choice

 

From everything I have read I think that I too have made the right choice by going with Roehl. I cant wait to get to orientation and training. how was it? If you can and have the time could you please give me a step by step process for orientation and training from the time you arive until your in your own truck.

 

I went to ellenwood in Georgia for orientation. It was 8 days long

Id say day one was drug tests and physical ability test and paperwork

Day two was backing and some logbook work. They will show you a way to back called the 90-90 setup. It's very easy but not always usable I'm the real world. Just use it every time and youll do fine.

Day three we started going on the road and and doing a bit of everything. Just road trips, backing, and classroom work.

You'll do that for about 7 days. After you pass orientation and officially become hired with roehl then you'll be assigned a trainer. They should pick you up from the terminal. I was lucky enough to have a trainer that lived in my home town so I went home for thanksgiving in a rental car that the company paid for.

I met up with my trainer after thanksgiving and went out. Our first load picked up in my hometown and we were off to Rhode island. After 14 days with my trainer I was back in ellenwood, ga and tested out. It was a simple road test and a backing test. Don't freak out, just take your time. The road trip test was about 10 minutes and that was it.

I got my truck the day after the testing in which they put me up at the hotel for that night. I got my truck and my first load south to get through the house (I live in Florida)



Ethan

 

That is awesome, thank you so much. I have been very worried about the test once I get there. I don't have a problem with tests but it seems once they correct me I start to second guess myself.

 

I hear ya

In orientation they won't tell you when your road test is. Just one day two of us in my group got tested out and the 3rd guy got tested the next day. We were never told until after the fact.

The only time you'll know is when you come back from your trainer. Their mainly going to look to make sure you just don't do anything illegal

Ethan

 

Thanks again Ethan, you have been a great help to me. It has been very stressful because I have two small kids and a young wife. I have been thinking about having my family watch the kids and taking the wife with me for at least one run a year. What kids of things would you recomend me studying so that when I get to orientation I will be as well versed in whatever I need to know.

 

Honestly I can't think of much that you would have access to right away. As in our policies and stuff.

Ethan