Roehl has changed alot

And did they harass you about not putting the times on the bills? If not, then they just grabbed them from off your qualcomm. They're going to get their money.

 

The in and out times have to be on the bill of lading. The bills are a legal document. The qcomm is not.

 

The detention thing is so wide spread that if drivers organised , they would probably have a case. These companies count on their drivers not getting together . I think as the economy gets worse you will see more class actions come against them for a host of reasons. And it is sad because just a little morality would make them have many loyal drivers. But as pay stays stagnant and the cost of living keeps going up, many will jump at the chance to go after them for some pay back.

 

That's why I don't understand why drivers give up and let them win. I fight for my detention time or demand explanations. They want drivers to give up.

 

And with Roehl cornerstone values prominently displayed for all to see, you as a driver should have the expectation of fair pay with out having to fight your employer for it. They might as well toss the cornerstone to the bottom of the pit for all it is worth.

 

The Cornerstone thing is just PR for the public image. This employer's treated employees badly thing is something that goes in cycles. Employers treat employees badly . The employees organize then they get better treatment. Then employees get lazy and their organizing get destroyed. Then employers start treating them badly again. So greed is the root of the problem . The companies get greedy and give crap benefits and wages till forced to do better. Then once the employees get a fair deal , they get lazy and greedy and end up back where they started. I have been on both sides of the table so I see both points of view . This time around we are dealing with a economy that is doomed to crash. So work for what you can get while you can get it. Take comfort in knowing that truck companies will be some of the first private industries to be seized by the government during a national crisis. Which will happen by 2017 at the latest with current rate of devaluation of the dollar. And when others are in soup lines drivers will be hauling stuff for the powers that be. So they will still have work. I say in the mean time move to smaller companies with fewer trucks. They treat their drivers better.

 

What is hometime fleet?

 

This may answer your question. http://www.roehl.jobs/experience/hometime

 

It is a fleet where you slip seat so you are out a week and home a week or out 2 weeks home 1. It was the main reason I picked Roehl . I don't have that many bills and spent to much of my life chasing a dollar. At this point I just need the basics So I chose them because of that. But now I have a better deal. I work 32 and get paid for 40 and home every night. I don't recomend a home time fleet to anyone who has bills , you won't make enough. There is a sytem in this country and one should learn to manipulate it the way it manipulates.

 

I didn't give up. I fought back. You can't make them pay detention even when you jump through all the hoops in the sequence they require.

I became an expert on their detention rules and followed them to the letter. I still had problems getting paid and would agonize over it. I live by the idea that you should hate evil and little else. I began to realize that I was hating what was going on with regards detention. It was really, really eating at me!
I decided the tension wasn't worth it but that I would fight back. That's why I quit putting the in and out times on bills in a detention situation.

Roehl was selling their soul for the $10-$20 they were stiffing me but no in and out times on the bills meant they were losing hundreds of dollars. I quit worrying about it and nobody from Roehl ever mentioned it.

If all Roehl drivers refused to put in and out times on detention bills and then told Roehl why they'd get righteous fast. The last two years I was there I cost them thousands by myself. Imagine the message it would send if all Roehl drivers did it for just one month.