Roehl, losing faith in them quickly...

How about State and Federal Government? Their so inept and inefficient they would go bankrupt if in the private sector.

Then there is the pension burden that they place on the coffers because like social security more money comes out then is put in. City's are going broke or have to raise taxes due to the burden of paying money out to people that are at home watching reruns of He Haw.

I once worked for a union and I can tell you that all it did for me is cost me my job due to the inefficiency's all the rules made. We use to have to find places to hang out till it was time to come back to the shop so management would not see everybody sitting around doing nothing.

Many unions offer no more worker protection or benefits or job security then a non union job but they collect fees from the workers all the same.

 

how dare you badmouth the mighty Roehl. according to this site, they are the only good trucking company that exists. dont go and piss them off or you will be screwed.

 

Please, There are only degrees of bad when it comes to OTR companies. They may be one of the lesser evils to pick to work for, but unless you like putting in 14 hour days for 8 hours worth of wages. There all a rip off.

 

Hmmm....I had a Roehl recruiter come into our school today and she was very convincing and we all liked her, but my teacher said they're hard to get into. 6 people in the last class sent in an app, 1 got pre-hred. Maybe this explains why. Considering all the great things the recruiter talked about: high starting pay, pratical pay, empty and bob tail pay, so on, I would wait to get your own truck and some months of experience and talking to other drivers about their situations before getting really upset. Personally, I would rather wait a several days than sign on with a lot of the other companies and not come home at all for 4-6 weeks.

 

Gotta agree...Im in the same class. Very good presentation.

 

That's a sign they're a good company. What you don't want to see is EVERYBODY in a huge orientation class getting hired. That's a sign a company is bad news and is just filling the rigs vacated by last week's quitters--drivers who quit last week for good reason(s).

 

I went thru Roehl training last August, and was off for 5 days before starting Evo I...I took Bucks advice and stayed out for Evo I and II...I ended up in Gary on a Friday, and had my own truck - a 2006 Columbia with only 170k miles - on that Monday...I stocked the truck with all the flat-bedder stuff, and then stayed in Gary until that Wednesday to attend Securement training for 3 days. Then I got my first load and went thru the house with it. Since then, everything has been fine. My DSR works with me, but I'm flexible with him, too. I'm on the Honor Program, so I get paid a salary regardless of miles driven. I told my DSR that I'll take some of the short-run loads since my pay is the same regardless of miles. He gives me some short loads, and then I get some 800+ miles loads too.

I really think that YOUR attitude has alot to do with your success at any company, not just Roehl, and not just in trucking. I had a person once tell me that "you can teach ability, but you can't teach attitude." Good words to live by.

I think that every new driver should give Roehl a chance. If you give a little, you'll get a little, and give it a chance. Every company - not just Roehl - deserves a 6 month trial before throwing in the towel.

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change."

 

That's one of the things the Roehl recruiter talked about, that Roehl gives you the physical/ drug test and processes paperwork BEFORE orientation. She said at some of the other companies (Swift) half the class disappears after the first day, which is ######## if you've been counting on that and have traveled a long way.

 

Someone posted on this site not long ago that Crete is allowing him to drive before it gets the results of his drug test back or even before he goes to orientation. Don't know what is going on there.

At Swift, I'm sure there was either a trainer or a truck available for each of those candidates. Those guys came all the way to orientation because Swift needed to put them in trucks. Trucks that were vacated by quitters last week or even yesterday. If they'd start treating drivers like humans and not like disposable critters at SwiftQuit, maybe they'd not need all those drivers week-in and week-out.

 

Not trying to ruffle your feather TIP, so please take no offense.


No new driver at Crete gets a truck before the drug test results come back clear. You either misread the post or the original poster was not clear in his statement.


As far as orientation, you are correct. Once a experience driver is hired, that driver is then provided a rental car to their assigned terminal where they take a physical, drug test, road test and fill out appropriate paperwork and watch the normal videos most companies make you view.

Once that is all taken care of, usually by the end of the second day, that driver is assigned a truck and dispatched. The new driver is then routed through one of the terminals that do orientation within the first week or two. It makes for a couple of interesting weeks, but I guess Crete feels if you are qualified to drive for them you can figure it out and worry about the formalities of Orientation at a more convenient time.


The idea being to get you out and making money right away.

Ok, back to Roehl