Remembering Roehl

I heard their CEO on Road Dog w KC Phillips a few months back telling everyone how great it was.

I wonder which one we should believe???

I know which one I believe.

 

You acquired a cdl and now have a good career because of Roehl, so you should appreciate that. All that other stuff is just part of the territory with training companies. You had 3 incidents that cost them money and they didn't fire you.

 

Well said, China.

Much akin to my appreciation for Werner. Left with a not-so-spotless record (nothing major, but $ out of their pocket..... a $2000 bumper that I knocked off myself & a few other minor scrapes.... lol) - but they afforded me the opportunity to cut my milk teeth & see most of the country.

Can't really complain as long as you learn your lessons well & keep striving to do & be better at the job.

 

Getting your CDL is the hardest part of this career. Kind of like boot camp.

My schooling was pretty decent. But my trainer was bipolar female. I wanted to kill her. 18 years later. She was a darn good teacher.

6 months out of school. I dragged the trailer in to the pole at the fuel island. Bent the rim and sliced the tire. I went local after that.

While my 6 weeks with a trainer wasn't always a party. The next 6 months with a co driver was flat out suicidal.

 

Where are you working now I ask because a friend of mine is at Riehl now for 1 year and rea

Where are you working now and how's it going

 

I had three MINOR incidents over the course of a year that they threatened to fire me over as they kept count apparently. One was busting a mudflap, another was dropping the passenger truck steer tire off a steep scale and knocking the alignment off a bit (I could have kept my mouth shut about this too but I confessed thinking honesty was the way to go) and the final incident: I drove in some grass at a customer to get backed up and tore the lot up a bit. Not gonna say it wasn't my fault. Not gonna say it was the best way to do it. Will say they made a HUGE federal case out of it and threatened to fire me with this being the last straw. Also the safety lady was a total ##### too. A total ####ing useless #####.

SCHNEIDER would of fired you on the spot for the very first one, as they are a ZERO tolerance company. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

 

I started with roehl early in 2010 at their school in Marshfield. I thought the training was really good. Every time I see someone not setting up properly to back in somewhere I think about my training there and how much easier that has made my time out on the road in just that one regard. Also the vast amount of time I spent driving through and delivering in the Chicago area made me a much better driver than if I had spent all of my time driving in Kansas . My dispatcher out of ellenwood was named Brian. Don't know if he is still around but he was a good guy and did a really good job at keeping me moving. I moved on after I did my 120,000 for a better paying gig but the lessons and opportunities I had at Roehl helped to make me a solid driver.

 

Thanks for adding this, I'm trying to decide between Prime and Roehl. As a newbie I'm mainly concerned with getting the best training. I heard Roehl will be in the seat next to you & not sleeping, like regular teaming.

 

Lots of complaints about Prime using lease operators as trainers. Lease operators are struggling to stay afloat financially and are more concerned about that than doing proper training.
Did you try Jim Palmer Trucking? I'd choose between Roehl and Jim Palmer Trucking. I didn't know Roehl hires students that far west.