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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RayBlaszak, post: 9795204, member: 169175&quot;]As far as beer goes in the entire time I was there I hauled beer once. Beer is not a commodity Roehl really gets into it actually doesnt fit well with the business model.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heres the good:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The equipment. Roehl sells equipment at about 300K. As far a maintenance was concerned they do it right. I never had issues with maintenance and you could schedule an appointment and normally get your issues resolved in a timely manner.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The terminals. The terminals definitely catered to the drivers as far as amenities. Some of them arent as nice but they do have all the stuff you would want with few minor exceptions. </p><p><br /></p><p>3. The hometime is very generous. The only place I know where you can be OTR stay out 11 days and get 72 hours home.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ugly:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The pay plan is atrocious. In theory you could work there 5 years and never see a pay raise. When I started they only offered one pay plan but now offer two. The pay is all based off of performance and things you have ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL OVER. For example, I had one quarter in which I drove 37K miles but still didnt get a pay raise because I had to many deadhead miles. That is something we dont control and deadhead miles dont help your performance. A huge portion is also based on fuel. Most of the time I could make the goal no problem while others youd get enough heavy loads through PA and WV than no matter what you did you weren&#039;t going to make it.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Roehl requires a contract unless you have experience. So even if you got your CDL on your own you still have a contract although not at 120,000 miles. I also want to point out that its 120K or bust. That means you leave at 119,999 you still owe them 7,000 or whatever your contract was worth </p><p><br /></p><p>4. The communication is atrocious. The planners might as well run the company. I would sometimes stay out as much as 60 days and wouldn&#039;t be allowed to do a reset because the planner said I couldn&#039;t. Keep in mind Roehl loves people that go home after 11 days. Now this is all subjective to what division your on as well but for the most part it&#039;s still all controlled by the planners.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Another thing they were notorious for doing was telling the driver one appointment and the customer giving them another. Sometimes let&#039;s say you were told your appointment was at 0700. The customer might&#039;ve confirmed that appointment at 0600 but guess who never gets word? Correct YOU. So now you show up and your late and guess who gets penalized on their scorecard? The DRIVER! Or even worse you show up and Roehl never bothered to make an appointment at all which happened all the time. This goes back to the planners not knowing crap about their customers. I had one a few weeks ago (I pull reefers now with Shaffer) where I showed up to Nestle in Indiana. A Roehl reefer driver had been sitting there almost 8 hours and they still hadn&#039;t touched him. I got a dock and loaded in 30 minutes. Why was he sitting there because they sent him to go pick up a load that was picked up two weeks ago and were scrambling to book something else. This happened to me a few times thankfully but this should never happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. The planners the planners the planners. </p><p><br /></p><p>7. On Dryvan the frieghtlanes suck. Roehls average length of haul is less than 300 miles. Roehls business model is smart though. I serviced places no other company would touch. I&#039;ve seen more of Wisconsin and Chicago than I ever care to see in my life[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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