Is Roehl the 'promised land' of trucking??

Hey drivers, there ain't no such thing as "the promised land" when it comes to a truck driving job. Or ANY job for that matter.

You just have to pick what you can live with, and if you can't live with it, then try someplace else. But someplace else will have its problems too.

I guess I was sort of "blessed" when I first started out. I hired on with a very small company that had at one time been pretty good. Same old story, Dad built the business, then turned it over to his snot nosed kid who ran it right into the ground.

They were typical of your bad company, give you loads that were impossible to deliver on time, let alone doing it legally, screwing you out of pay, telling you wrong time for appointments, crappy equipment and on and on.

Anyhow, after working for this outfit for a (very) short time, I really appreciated the other companies that I have worked for!

 

They really need to get someone to clean up these trucks in Gary. My last two students got their trucks from Marshfield. Both had just over a 100k on them and were very clean. The last student was even getting a APU installed.

 

Sorry, but what does "FM" stand for? Fleet Mgr? And what exactly is he? I know of Terminal Mgr and Dispatcher only. What is "DSR" and what do they do?
You can laugh now but please answer!

 

FM is fleet manager and DSR is Driver Service Representative, I think. The Fleet manager is over a "pod" of DSR's. In essence, they all do what the planners tell them to do and their job is to relay information to the driver. Turn over is very high in these positions and continuity is almost nonexistent.
So, if you don't like your DSR, wait a few weeks and you can get another. I had 6 in 14 months, but I got to keep one for 5 months, and she was great.
But alas, she got transferred and I got a Fleet manager, took about 3 weeks of his garbage and quit.