My Roehl Experience!

Hey now! Its bad enough all you F.I.B.s want to come up to Wisconsin and catch our fish, shoot our deer, buy up all the lake property and zoom around on your stupid jet skis. Or come to Miller Park and act like a bunch of ### clowns. Now you want work at Wisconsin based company and complain about not getting the good loads.. Where does it end? Hopefully, with the Cubs spending all kinds of money and getting swept in the first round of the playoffs. Or better yet, getting beat by the Brewers.

FIBs go home. Wisconsin is not the Illinois state park.

Just kidding. Its not all roses being the Wisconsin guy who gets to pick up three loads and relay them to Marshfield before I can home on a friday. All though,with freight being a little slow lately I can just deliver on Friday and go home.

 

Does Roehl still offer weekends home on the midwest regional fleet 5/2 ?

 

I AGREE STOP THE WHINNING!!!!!! YOU SHOULD DRIVE FOR SWIFT!!!!! Stands for STOP WHINNING I AM ##### TRYING!!!!! LMAO

 

I used to drive for Roehl for almost 2 yrs and it was the best company out there. Ive been trying to get back with them for 3 months now and its like beating my head into the wall. I left on good terms at least maybe a spot will open up soon. Overall if your in stay there. I never had a problem with them at all. Always got home when I needed to be home and was paid well. Benefits were great too. Good luck to you guys already there.

 

Well if you have been trying for 3 months and they won't hire you back there is a reason, and it ain't because there is no openings.

You might try bypassing the recruiters and checking in with your old terminal manager to find out why they won't hire you back.

 

Been nearly two years and I still feel the same way. Roehl has been fair with me and I am happy........

 

Ok, in responce to the first posting here...

just saw this message today (07-29-2010). I was a trainer with Roehl from 2006 until November of 2009. Wish I hadn't left!!!!

In anycase, you are most likely correct that the "trainer/mentor" you had did NOT want you telling anyone... especially Roger!. Why? We as trainers were trained, told, and retrained that WE DO NOT RUN TEAMS!

I was pressed by some of the dispatchers (DSR, FM, whatever I call them what they are) to run hard where the only way to do so would be driving as a team. I would just ask, "Do you want me to train, or be a team?" That normally got things around to driving normal.

Second, I think you are correct about luck getting you the new rig. The rule was always, what ever is next to hand out, goes... seniority never counted. (You had the right to refuse a poor truck for smell, etc.)

In any case, I am looking at going back...

 

Your Roehl experience didn't sound bad or unusual for an experienced driver at all. Did you think you would ride around when you already know the business? You should take a course in not complaining all the time. From what I've heard, that company is as good as any and they pay decent money with good lanes.

 

Automatic? I'm sitting here on an 18 speed Eaton with a 4 speed auxiliary leading back to 2 speed rears. I figure I've got a gear for any occasion!

 

You will find that Roehl now isn't the company you left two years ago.