ROEHL "slow freight"

Makes no difference who you are driving for.Freight is gonna slow down from Xmas til probably March.Its just a way of life in the trucking industry,and many other industries. Take a little time and talk to some small business owners,and they will tell you there is always a lull this time of the year.

 

I am not doubting your story, but you can work 8.25 hours everyday and never need a 34 hour reset. You claim you are sitting alot yet you needed a 34 hour reset. You limit your freight options by running 7/4,7,3. Sunday is the worst day to launch, especially this time of year. Good Luck

 

When you say 8.25, do you mean drive 8.25 hours or drive plus on duty not driving for 8.25 hours. Also, hopefully after driving for 8.25 hours do you sleeper berth for your 10 hours? how many miles a week do you get from driving 8.25 hours a day?

 

8.25 hours is just that. If you drive for 8.25 or if you drive for 6 hrs. and are on duty not driving for 2.25, it is still 8.25.

 

Some days you will work more and some days you will work less. The objest is to try to not use a 34 hour reset while you are out. Try to get the job done using as little on duty hours a day as possible.

 

Man, that sucks. I suspect it prolly has a lot to do with the weather in marshfield this winter, they really can't seem to catch a break.

Why is that? I mean, what kind of miles are the dispatch? are these for sunday morning appt times? or for monday, and you get there way too early?

Yeah, we all do that once.

 

what is a 34 hour reset and why is it needed?

 

its a 34 hour break that you have to take from driving if you run out of all your hours for the week.....

 

The biggest change i have seen in the last 2 years has been that my dispatcher is not a dispatcher. They have a new name "driver service representative". (wonder how many meetings it took to come up with that name) Anyways they have zero control of the freight you get. That is now left to the Load planners (you can't talk to them).

If I was a DSR at Roehl I would be worried about my job. They only seem to be a buffer, and when it comes time to cut budgets somebody higher will say "Hmm what do the DSR's really do" and that will be followed by another
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"nothing at all"

I remember when Smith transport had a great name. See any simularities here?

Also the term is not freight is slow, the correct term is freight is soft in your area right now.