My Roehl Experience!

That's good since the housing market has gone down I feel flat is slowing down also. Than ks, CMOORE2004

 

My trainer was a ex-log truck driver (and drove like it) from OR who was forced into driving otr when the mill he lived near closed. he had 4 kids to feed and a wife that liked the finer things in life and had no time to waste looking for work. He quit smoking after a heart attack but dipped 2 cans of chew and drank a half rack of Tab every day he drove.

I kept my mouth shut and my eyes on the road and with 5 years of living on ships in the Navy had no problem with the transition except for driving half rested from being tossed around in my bunk all the time.

 

Good luck with your search atekjunkie. You can find a much better job if you are willing to spend some time looking. I did, and I am so happy that I am not with Roehl anymore. There are others that have left after a much longer employment there than you, or me, and these people aren't leaving because they are happy. I know how you feel about Roehl because I have been there too. You can do better.
Good luck, again.

 

atekjunkie, Roehl makes it seem like freight is slow.For lots of companies,freight is not slow.Your right! They have too many drivers for the amount of freight they have.
I left Roehl in June. I now work for Barr-Nunn. I've been kept very busy there. I generally always have a preplan.Roehl doesn't understand the concept of preplan! And they pay alot better than Roehl does. It might be worth it for you to look them up online.
I live in Ohio.Barr-Nunn has tons of freight in that area. Looks like your in the south.Not sure how it is down there for them.
There are alot of companies that seem to specialize in certain areas of the country. With 2 years + ,you won't have any trouble getting a job. Good Luck!!

 

I got stuck with another Roehl bad load weekend. Unloaded at 2 p.m. today (Friday) in southern Georgia, sat for 2 hours, then right before the planners and everyone goes home for the weekend, I get this wonderful dispatch with 207 empty paid miles and 217 paid loaded miles. P/U in Atlanta preloaded trailer anytime, 5:00 a.m. appointment (live unload) monday morning in Charlotte. I will pick this up about 7-8 a.m. on saturday morning, I don't want to spend my weekend out sitting at a truck stop idling away the company fuel!!! This should have never been given to me. I've got over 35 hours on my 70, I don't need a reset over the weekend sitting on this load!

What is wrong with this company lately? Just awful management. Too many chiefs and not enough indians? I'm gettin' sick of being away from home on weekends i'm out and I'm doing nothing but watching tv in the truckers' lounge. C'mon Roehl, fire those planners that can't do their jobs worth a darn (cleaned up for all you family types). I want to work on my weekends out, not sit in the truck while you sit with your family at the dinner table telling them how you really screwed that driver over before you left work to come home to them!

It's getting bad out here!

 

This load had been picked up by another Roehl driver on Thursday at 2 p.m.; shipper records time in/out and he pulled it up on the computer for me. Called weekend dispatch and told them what trailer number he picked up. They tracked the trailer on their system and told me he unloaded Friday afternoon, before I got the dispatch!!! LOL!! What can ya do?

I had been hearing how this was happening to other drivers and it finally happened to me. There was another load there already assigned to another driver going to same consignee. They gave it to me and took that driver that was already on his way to pick it up off of it. (I wonder how far he drove before he stopped to read that beep, beep, beep of the Qualcomm to get the wonderful news.)

I ran the miles via my house to customer on my mapping software and it was 44 miles out of route, to make a long story short they approved going through the house with the load and I got an extra half weekend at home with a restart. Sorry for fussing so much, this is just getting aggravating receiving these small checks because other people that can't do their jobs are affecting mine.

 

That's one of the reasons I quit after my year there. That, and their seeming inability to get me home when they said they would. I would most always go out for the 11/3. I would tell them on the Qualcom when I got into the truck, the date I wanted to be back. "Oh, no problem. We appreciate you letting us know in advance so we can work around it." The worked around it all right.

They get paid whether they get it right or not. We don't! Get a clue! Or better yet, start giving a dang about your drivers. ALL of them, not just the ones who live in Wisconsin and have been there 10 years.

 

By any chance was that shipper Domtar paper in Arkansas? I got two bad preplan there last week and then a 3rd going there for the same load as one of the preplan. My DSR blamed the shipper saying they submitted the p/up order more than once. I figured that was a lie because they all had the same dispatch number. If the shipper had submitted the p/up order a few times it would have been treated as seperate loads and all had differnt dispatch numbers. Also to the last poster I ran 11/3 for a year and they never got me home on time finally I was ready to quit and decided to give 7/4-7/3 a shot. Been out 5 time under this and have gotten home late once. My DSR admitted that if the driver is national he is at the bottom of the totem pole for home time. They will always give the loads to the hometime guys first to get them home. If both drivers need to go to the same place and have the same hometime.

 

No, this was a load out of Atlanta. I've not had much of a problem getting home on time, maybe because of where I live, I don't know what the difference might be. They do seem really heavy in freight in the Wisconsin area, whenever I get up there I never wait for loads at all. They got that state (where they are based) locked down it seems. Roehl trucks all over the highway up there.

As far as home goes, I'm sitting in Ellenwood now waiting on my relay load to show up to take it home on the way to deliver in Virginia next week. This week has been alot better, I left with that Atlanta load going to Charlotte from the house Monday morning and have a little over 2500 miles now on Friday evening. Wish every week went this well! LOL!