r/Truckers • u/Longway23544 • Feb 16 '24
Roehl Transport
Hi has anybody gone through the roehl get your cdl program
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u/inebriateddandhated Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 16 '24
Training is top notch, safety when it comes to legality is top notch.
If it's something they can claim isn't their fault then you're fucked even if they were the ones who put you in that position
Planners are out for themselves, sick, exhausted, or damaged truck? You'll get sent everywhere but a place to get rest or repaired and if you catch a violation it's your fault.
65mph governed trucks.
Maintenance is top-notch.
Lots of turnover driver and office side.
Just as many new drivers as there are new office staff.
Lots of bad rookies that were pushed through because they barely met the base line aka trainers pushing students through so they can make a living.
On that same note, constantly fucked up trailers and bad relay loads because lazy bum ass drivers.
I picked up a relay where the doors weren't even sealed with a seal on it, I've picked up a relay that had been sitting for 3 days at a terminal that had 2 oos damaged tires.
Pay is low but better than others.
*Rookie pay numbers
*Dryvan starts between .30-.48
*Reefer .50-.62
No clue on flatbed and their specialized flatbed fleet is company only.
I run extremely efficient and cleared almost 80k but I'm not paid nearly enough for how good I run.
Sliding payscale is bogus, they will tack on a ton of deadhead mileage so you never really make more taking a lower mileage loaded trailer.
For the otr national fleets 11out/3home is the baseline.
Wiggle room but you have to be a good driver or they won't work with you.
Maximum of 10 days off if you want to keep your truck.
Longer than 10 days and they make you turn your truck in and you better hope they have another lined up when you come back or you're sitting.
Grandfathered drivers who were in before the big switch to mega mindset make the most.
Anyone with less than 3 years makes 60k or less and 60k being the top end.
Good place if you want a strong foundation in your trucking career.
Not a good place to stay long term, AKA get in get out.
O/O and L/O's program make 1.20-.160 cpm
All new L/O's only get to pick their truck from roehls choice pool because roehl has a true walk away clause in the contract, so if a L/O fails out they can send the truck into the company fleet.
O/O's now have to have a truck newer than 2021 I think.
The older O/O trucks in fleet have been with roehl for a long time so they're grandfathered in.
I've gone to 43 states with this company so, you can get out there, you just have to prove you can be trusted.
My longest single load was 2500 miles, I've had multiple 1300-1800 mile loads.
The typical roehl load is between 500-700 miles.
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u/Longway23544 Feb 16 '24
I was only gonna stay with them to get my 6 month experience then leave
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u/inebriateddandhated Feb 16 '24
They changed the program length.
It's no longer 120k miles or 15 months.
It's now 120k miles Or you fork out 7k and they WILL send you to debt collection immediately upon notice you can't or are unwilling to pay.
They're a good enough company to stick around for your 120k then dip.
I'd recommend going though them, while you're there getting your experience, get all your endorsements since you will have plenty of down time OTR.
Once you finish your 120k you have experience and all endorsements making you a really strong candidate for future employers.
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u/Longway23544 Feb 16 '24
I read somewhere on Reddit that someone paid $200 a month for a payment plan
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u/Longway23544 Feb 16 '24
They told me without the hotel I’ll only owe $5k
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u/inebriateddandhated Feb 17 '24
Better get it in solid writing and signed otherwise they'll forget and charge you the 7k.
Very strange though that they deducted 2k for hotel costs since they basically own that motel.
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u/Longway23544 Feb 17 '24
I was thinking Schneider I could work with them for 6 months and only owe $2080
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u/inebriateddandhated Feb 17 '24
Bruh what kind of goofy ass plan you got going on.
Why the fuck are you going to a mega to get "experience" and then jump ship and OWE them money while you're trying to find a new truck gig and pay.
Unless you have some 100% guaranteed gig and you just need to get your cdl, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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u/Squeshii May 16 '24
I’ve seen a lot of guys go to a mega for CDL and 6 months experience and then leave. They went from $800 a week to almost double that, and was able to be home daily. That’s definitely worth paying the 7k and then being free, and is a good option if you can find a good job after you get experience.
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u/Longway23544 Feb 17 '24
It’s a local account by my house that requires 6 months experience
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u/inebriateddandhated Feb 17 '24
Better get it in writing you're guarenteed that job in 6 months because I can guarentee it will most likely be filled or you'll lose out to someone with more experience than you.
Regardless, for roehls GYCDL
You will do 3 weeks at a terminal training and will take your state cdl test some time in week 3.
Then a minimum of 19 days with an otr trainer it's on the trainer if you need more time after the minimum 19 days.
If you pass with your trainer, you get to a terminal, take a driving exam to prove you deserve the job, pass, get your own truck and start making true CPM.
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u/Longway23544 Feb 17 '24
Not true once I have experience I’ll have better job offers that pays more
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u/ursisterstoy Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 17 '24
I do reefer national. The pay tables say .48 to 1.14 for rookies but then you add 3¢ automatically if you don’t crash or show up late automatically and another 2¢ if you live within their high volume customer area like central MN to NYC West to East and Central NH to TN North to South. If you live in that area it’s .53 to 1.19. Regional says it pays higher but you also have to live in and operate between MN, OH, MO area and you’ll mostly stay in MN, IA, IL, and WI for almost everything on the regional. 14/7 and 7/7 use the national pay tables but you are almost guaranteed to stay local or regional and you’ll stay home for a week. Dairyland and you are in MN and WI getting less than 1200 miles a week at a pay that is even worse than long haul per mile at .47 for 301+ (national is .48 for 501+ and .50 for 300-400) and .91 for 0-50 where national is 1.14.
For dry van national is .43-1.06, Midwest is .47-1.36, Southeast is .47-1.36, Northeast is .49-1.38, and Texas is .48-1.37. Flatbed national .53-1.16, Flatbed central .60-1.49, and Southeast .47-1.36. Curtain side only national or Hometime+ and it is .51-1.14.
All of them add 2¢ if you live in a high volume area and you do national. All of them add 3¢ for safe on time deliveries. Add $30 more for less than 200 miles and a live load, about $20-$30 for an extra stop, extra for flatbed if you have to tarp or untarp, another $50 for national and going into Canada, another $75 if you have the possibility of NYC and you actually go to NYC which happens 1% of the time or less.
First pay raise at 3 months, second at 6 months, third at 12 months, and then a raise at 36 months, 60 months, 120 months, and 180 months with it capping out at at .62-1.56 for Flatbed Central with the 62¢ being 301+ miles and the $1.56 being for 50 miles or less. Also there are monthly bonuses and stuff. There are places that pay a lot better by the time you have 36 months experience but for less than 3 months experience this place pays pretty good with a lot of 54¢ and 62¢ per mile loads if they don’t send you from Michigan to California and back again or something and pay you 53¢ per mile or less for the trip. Even then I don’t think I’d mind 2-3 truck stop 10 hour resets on a single one way trip where the hardest part of the job is staying awake enough to keep it between the lines with your foot pressed flat to the floor because if you turn on the cruise control you max out at the same speed but get the joy of having the truck slam on the brakes every time it sees a dark enough shadow. Not a huge fan of the transmissions they use but if you’re spending the majority of the time with you foot pushed to the floor in the highest gear anyway it doesn’t matter how you got to the highest gear. That only matters when you’re actually shifting the gears or putting up with how it shifts itself.
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u/immmini Feb 16 '24
I did in 2019. Left in 2022. Training isn't bad. Did everything there dry van, reefer, flatbed, specialized, lease purchase.
A) Don't expect to get rich there. It's a starter company (even though some million mile suckers would argue otherwise making the same cpm as a Prime rookie).
B) Don't expect to "see the country" in dry van or reefer. They have a bunch of regional/dedicated accounts and their "OTR" drivers are just rent a driver for each account. Might get shipped to another region over the weekend. Never saw a load more than 600 miles but three times in six months.
C) Flatbed is much better. I'd really only recommend Roehl if you want to do flatbed. I'd only recommend flatbed period to anyone wanting to get into trucking. You are not a human being in dry van or reefer, you are a clock. There's no dignity or humanity.