My Roehl Experience!

Dang it, boy! It gets sooo much better when you get out on your own. A few more days and you would have been laughing about the double up. I do understand, because one of my trainers was a complete ars and it was all I could do to keep my chin up. However, the other one was a great guy and very helpful. Luck of the draw I suppose.
Better luck next time.

 

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. I hooe you give it another try. As for myself, I hope I have better luck with my trainer when I start. I wish you luck the next time you try. Don't give up.

 

23.5 hrs a day? What happened did you get the cuffs off and slip out for air everyday? I weld the doors shut to keep my students in.

 

Haaaa, lmao. Perhaps he caught the trainer napping.

 

I still remember being new and dealing with the training. Back then it was 20 days with one trainer then 20 with another rookie. My trainer was one of those "Overly friendly" types. Few moments of unwanted viewing his less than chieseled form had me wanting to jump out many times. I think if it wasn't for being in bad $$$ shape I would have. Nothin' like starvin' kids at home to keep a fellar motivated, I always said that.

 

I noticed that Roehl also has vans. Do they let you run vans when flats get slow?

 

It was not to long ago that they used to train drivers in cabovers with one coffin bunk and you ran team freight from day one. No T.V.'s DVD players cell phones or inverters. Just a bag of clothes and a sleeping bag and pillow. You either were driving or sleeping and would stop one time per day to fuel, shower and eat. When I was done with my six weeks of driving my 58mph cabover around 18,000 miles for 1,500 bucks I was glad number 1 that I was still alive, and number 2 that I could finally sleep without the truck bouncing down the road.

Training, and for that matter just driving a truck has been made so much easier now that it is hard for some driver trainers to relate to why a trainee might think it is difficult to spend a couple weeks together in a big condo sleeper truck with all the gadgets and amenity's that are available these days.

Better to find out early it is not for you then to do something you hate. Many local company's train their own drivers so you don't have to drive OTR to get training. It's just a easier route to take then pounding the pavement looking for a job that will train you locally.

 

There wasn't a truck big enough for me when I started. I shared a cabover (Albeit a condo one) with a freak that had a penchant for nudity. You could have made the cab the size of a greyhound bus and it would have been too small. Add to this his insistance that a picture he cut from a porn magazine was really his girlfriend. His desire to hassle every waitress he encountered made our few meals most unfortable. But as I said before I didn't have much choice I had to have a job no matter the bs I put up with for those twenty days. The positive that came out of it was a desire to make my students time in my truck as pleasant, productive and short as possible.

 

Yes, sometimes you get stuck with a van or reefer if there's nothing nearby to pick up.

 

That just about describes my training at PST Vans perfectly--with the addition of a narcoleptic Tennessee hillbilly that had an aversion to soap and water. I made it a whole month though... I wanted to drive bad. It was boot camp x 1000.

There are truck drivers and then there are tourists with delusions of grandeur about driving a truck. I would suspect that a lot of the students coming out of the schools today are the latter.