the Roehl way....yeah right

Well Roehl can keep running their drivers in the ground as Ol' Ricky makes the money.

My new job is Bull Hauling. 60,000lbs of rolling beef. Truck isn't cut. And the pay on an average week runs about $1000+. Started out at 20% of $2.40 a mile, up to %50 for other runs. Sale Barns are %20. Pastures are 25%, short hauls are %50. I get $25 paid for DOT phys, and $25 for the random UA's. The company pays the for overweight tickets. No data link, they give you a cell phone. They even give you a HotShot and batteries.

When ever you need off, just ask. Off Christmas and Thanksgiving. Both paid holidays. They don't care which route you take to get there. Just don't act stupid and run 200miles out of the way. Idle all you want. Trucks are replaced every 5years. And the trucks they run now are 300gallon, automatic, Freightshaker colombo's. 300,000 is a well used one. They'll even pay for blue beacon once a month.

Home most every night. I leave at 5pm get back by 12-3am. 5 out of 7days. Line hauls here and there. Kansas is as far north as they go. The longest run is three days max. Then your back at home. Two week vacation a year.

Logs are laid back, so are the dispatchers.


"If you can't work for Roehl, then you can't work for anybody"......

Try loading a stock trailer with 100+ head of yearling's. Or some killer cows(bulls that don't produce, 1500-2500LBS).

They'll try to stomp, hook, and kick you flat.

Roehl? Yeah, I guess I wasn't cut out to back up to a dock.......

 

Capital Land and Livestock. Schwertner, TX.


I love the place. You will get kicked, and it will happen again. But Lord it makes loading a trailer fun.

The only thing half way hard is figuring how to load the cattle. The trailer has 8 sections. The sections are called "pots". And one small space in the upper rear of the trailer is called a "kitchen"

The front lower pot holds 6500# as does the upper front pot. Then the middle large pots have gates. Front of the gate holds 10500#. behind the gate 9500#.

The rear lower pot holds 6500# and the kitchen holds 3250#. The kitchen folds out the way and you can do a "deck out". The upper rear pot then holds 6500#.

The trailer gets 60000+lbs most of the time. Thats up in the 95000 GVW range. But the company pays over weight tickets. You just do your best to get around scales. The trucks ain't cut so the weight pulls fine.

The cattle sometimes run in the trailer, sometimes you have to roast their arse to get them to move. LOL....sometimes you have 3200# of shiat in the trailer alone. Plus NO reefers park next to you....or anyone else for that matter...4wheelers don't stick around long either.



It's a blast....You get to meet Cowboys to Cattle Barons. Easy going folk that are the idea of laidback.


There's boys making $1400 a week. Running their rear off. Some of the senior drivers get weekends off and still pull a $1000+. They told me that the average driver is making 40-50grand a year. I checked that out, and eyeballed some paystubs....

Their right....$$$$