My Roehl Experience

Live there so pretty frequent. When I ran dry box.... I ran FL a lot. Flatbed, only when I go home.

 

Don't worry about being sent home. Just focus on learning and you will be fine! People who stress out over being booted tend to show poorer quality in work... Not because they can't do it, but because they are focused on being sent home so they try to hard and end up screwing themself.

 

dont worry about going home. roehl has apready spent alot of money on you to send you home. just do a littpe better every day. my pre trip was horrible but i asked lots of questions. i think they see someone wanting to learn and even if they dont no everything see they are trying. as for trip planning i do about 90 percent on my phone with google maps and google navigation. i love the satelite view and road view. for my training it was one of those things in life when it was done with i looked back and said y was i even worried.

 

Map reading is a simple concept. Only thing I couldn't stand was finding the distance inbetween location a and location b.... It's not like you will have to do that with Roehl on every single load. They even trip plan for you with their routing.

I think they just do it so if your qualcomm or truckpc has issues you know how to get around. Then again... I'd rather free ball it anyways because it's alot less stressful. For instance Roehl had me going to Florida with a load from WI. Their routing was I-80 over to I-65, then on I-65 abunch of back roads to get to I-24. Which was stupid... Yeah their routing probably had less miles, but just taking I-65 down to I-24 made more since... and it was faster. No stopping.. No climbing steep hills on back roads.. Less fuel burnt.

So I threw most of their routing out the window.

Then again I am also have a truck payment and fuel bill. But you can always call dispatch and see if they will modify the route for you. Make sure you know for sure what route you want to take and have positive's for taking that route. Not just that it's 25 miles longer but 20 minutes quicker. Need to talk your route up to them.

 

Are u doing Roehl school or just orientation? I was never tested on pre trip, did my written test after the trainer, and then went over results of missed questions of written test questions missed? I did it in Ellenhood, j test out there consider yourself lucky. Maybe I'm missing something lol

 

Ok all done with RDTC and load securment. Now I am back at home, praying that when I call back in tomorrow, they will have a trainer lined up for me. It didn't sound promissing on Monday when I called in. Said they are about a week behind in the flat bed fleet with trainers...Fingers crossed!! Told me to make sure I sign up to be a trainer after 6 months LOL

 

Well I'm thinking about becoming a trainer. I'm in the flatbed fleet.

Ethan

 

Sounds good!! Ill meet ya in Marshfield, I can be there in 3 hours....