Roehl 7/4 7/3 or 7/7

Crow can be good when properly seasoned.

Anyway, I've been around the boards since I started back at the beginning of the year (though I just recently registered). Roehl has it's issues, but I like it here overall. I'm a driver, so sure I'm gonna b****, but I think the main problem Roehl has is it seems to be bipolar. One minute they are happy and making good decisions, and next we get smashed in the head with a frying pan... full of crow.

It's frustrating to see more and more people having bad experiences because I think it puts a dark cloud over an decent company.

 

Noone hangs out with That Guy and This Dude and mugs completely innocent people that just happened to stumble down a dark alley with several thousand dollars in non-drug related cash.

 

Let me jump in again, I just got home. If you are a newbie, let me tell you something about trucking- a day is 24 hours not midnight to midnight. If you get out of the truck at noon and are promised two days at home that is 48 hours. If you're going to drive a truck get used to it-that's truckin

For everyone else, I just got home a day late again. I will give my dsr credit I am not due back in my truck until Wednesday at 13:00. I will get my 96 hours out of the truck. However, I get the impression that he may be about ready to wring some load planners necks if they don't start getting a clue. Two trips in a row now I have gotten back late when they could have planned me home. I don't know what is happening but at least my dsr is trying to make it right. I'm also getting pretty decent miles. I never count on the extras such as bonuses, delay, etc. It has been my experience that companies promise these things to get you through the door, but then make earning them nearly impossible. I still find Roehl is the best company I've found for what I'm looking for.

 

Roehl's stated policy has always been the day is 24 hours. That being said I only had one dispatcher ever try to hold me to that nonsense. In my world a day was always a zero in the log book, that to me is, was and always will be trucking. As far as bonuses I never got some of the folks that say they are unearnable. I mean the milage thresholds were never all that high. Before some people claim that my training got me the miles I beg to differ. Years ago(Many years ago) training was good for a mess of miles. We were really allowed to get after it but the per day pay for students was laughable. They have since flipped that around. The miles are no more than what I would do as a solo driver but the per day rate is twice what it used to be.

 

I tried to be real clear earlier but I guess I wasn't. I left Roehl not due only to current issues with the planning dept. It was something I had been looking at for quite some time. I was just tired of bumping docks. I was tired of having some jerk-off telling me I had arrived at a driver unload facility(Which was an issue because I had long since forgotten how to strip and stack pallets). I (And I realize this will make me sound lame) was tired of backing a 53' trailer into tight Pilot parking spaces. The recent issues with the planner just provided the needed push to get me out the door. I really enjoyed the people I worked with at Roehl and swear I had some amazing luck in getting great dispatchers. I had only two that I thought were sub par but even one of those was a likable person. I had some small issues with our wrenches through the years but for the most part was impressed with how well the maintained the equipment. Every inspection I went through earned a CVSA decal for both the truck and trailer. They really do care about safety instead of the usual lip service that is played in most places. I can say without and pause that if this new job doesn't work out I would go back there in a heartbeat. I would not consider pulling a dry box for any other carrier. I also realize that my experience may not have been typical but I really do feel as though I could happen for anybody that went there. I know I spent a lot of time helping the guys that were in my truck long after they got out. Those that are still with the company know I left but they all know I am still more than welcome to help them if they need it in the future.

 

Well one thing I can say about this 24hr thing is this. When I worked for Swift 2yrs ago it went like this.. Lets say I got home at 5pm, then my home time would not start until mid nite.. So that was one of the few things I can say was good about them.. When I worked with JB for a short 4 months, home time started the second you were unloaded if you were on a load in your home state.. Now go figure it might take me 8hrs to get home but to them it did not matter..

 

Not so much the content, but some of my former bashers are having to eat crow.
And yes, you can apply the "dung" to a large percentage of large carriers out there.
I'm glad I got out of that world when I did.

Yea but you keep getting these posters who will believe a company rep and dismiss someone with over a million miles of driving all over the US and Canada. We try to tell them how it really is and they seem to think that we must have done something wrong and that they can pull a magic wand out of their arse and it will be different for them.

Before some people claim that my training got me the miles I beg to differ. Years ago(Many years ago) training was good for a mess of miles. We were really allowed to get after it but the per day pay for students was laughable. They have since flipped that around. The miles are no more than what I would do as a solo driver but the per day rate is twice what it used to be.

I've been a trainer before and you are going to tell people that trainers and or former trainers don't get preferential treatment and or don't make more money then a solo when they train? Thats like a Team saying they are treated the same as a solo. Totally laughable.

Let me jump in again, I just got home. If you are a newbie, let me tell you something about trucking- a day is 24 hours not midnight to midnight. If you get out of the truck at noon and are promised two days at home that is 48 hours.

Maybe at Roel and some others but some like the company's I worked for did not count your arrival day if it was after noon since that day was already half over so if you got in at 1230 on Friday you would not be due in till Monday whenever your load pu. My last company would just ask me when I was returning and I would even call up a day early and would sometimes get extra time if the freight was soft.

If you're going to drive a truck get used to it-that's truckin

Thats the problem with OTR trucking at the present time. To many happy to have a job drivers like you, who think that a company's ill treatment of their employees is ok because thats how it is done and thats trucking. Well maybe trucking needs to change so they will not have to place full page ads in every rag in the country to get people to work for them like Roel, while other company's have to beat the applicants off their stoops with a stick and don't even advertise.

 

You made me laugh. That's funny.

 

This is so exhausting. Again for the slow children in the back of the room. What I said about Roehl's training program was entirely accurate. Now I realize you trained for some OTHER company at some OTHER time and your experiences were different. Now I am pretty sure I said trainers at Roehl(Please note the spelling) USED to run hog wild. By "Used to" I meant before, prior to 2003, 2004 or so. Now with the advent of a new regime running the department the miles have been scaled back. The training trucks don't run as a team. They tend to run solo driver miles. Three grand or less a week has become very normal. To make up for the drop in miles they have greatly raised the per day pay.

Really hammer I have nothing to gain by lying to you or anyone else. I have never asked anyone to put my name on a job application and near as I can figure by not working for Roehl(Again note the spelling) I am note eligible for a recruiting bonus.

 

I thought he was that guy in Herman's hermits. Peter Noone wasn't it? Knew his career was over but didn't think he was left to petty larceny.