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Roehl Transport
Driver Success is a Roehl company value. Of course, we want all of our employees to be successful, yet we also recognize that driving provides challenges beyond a typical job because of the rigors of the road and separation from family and friends. We want to help drivers and all employees meet their professional and personal goals. Take home more–Be home more are certainly a part of ensuring our drivers are successful, but it’s also much more than that. Roehl offers drivers multiple pay options, industry-leading home time choices, a variety of load types and award winning safety programs.
5 Customer Reviews of “Roehl Transport”
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Roehl Transport Review by sad driver, February 10, 2010
You have got to be one insane person to work for Roehl, Rick is always bragging about how well the company is doing and how much they made. How do you think he does it? off of you as a company driver or O/O they bend you over and penny you too death. When Everett still ran Roehl it was great for everyone, now Rick is hopping the old guy dies so he will give up his controlling interest of 51% to Rick then hang on the fun will really start. They go through new drivers like water I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a advertisment in Europe because they have use up all the drivers in America.
Roehl Transport Review by Cable4, May 7, 2009
Bad company. Layover pay for us as team drivers is 24hrs down to receieve 1/2 the perscribed layover amount which totals up to $20 per driver. 36hrs down is required for full $40 per driver layover. There is a great deal of down time too. I have 6yrs experience, they pay us 38.25 cents per practical mile but 10 cents of that is the perdiem pay which we won’t see at tax time. This is a good company to come to if you’re between jobs during an economic meltdown but that’s it. I too, wouldn’t reccomend this company to an enemy.
Roehl Transport Review by sad trucker, April 7, 2009
I have driven for Roehl almost 8 years. When I first started with them, it was a great company. They really did have the cornerstone value of integrity as they claimed. However, over the years it has become pretty sad to see what this company has become. I have always played by the rules; I have had only one late load during my driving career; I have always obtained my bonuses. Those bonuses they still use as a drawing point are now laughingly small, and with the economy as it is now it’s truly amazing how low they stoop to keep from paying anything at all. It would be much easier to have respect for them if they would just say “we need to stop bonuses until the economy is better”. I can no longer drive enough miles to make a living, yet they are steadily hiring new drivers. Why? Because they can pay new drivers less money to deliver the same loads I used to deliver. My dispatcher, Eddie in Ellenwood, has pulled some nasty little routines in the last couple of months, and I feel sure it’s because I’m a high mileage, high on the pay scale driver. They would much rather have a new driver who makes less money. So much for longevity and loyalty. Idle time is almost impossible to achieve anymore. The truck I’m currently driving has almost 500,00 miles on it, so they will not give me an APU. Yet I’m expected to keep my idle time below 15%, and they now evaluate it weekly. So with it starting over every week and not being able to get miles to drive I now have to worry about being called on the carpet for idle time violations. In the past, I have almost always achieved my quarterly MPG award. I’m now looking around at other trucking companies because I don’t think I can make it at Roehl any more. I think if I don’t quit, they will find some reason to fire me. I don’t like changing jobs, but I guess there are times when you have no choice. I may not do any better, but I sure can’t do much worse. Thanks for reading.
Roehl Transport Review by Anonymous, March 4, 2009
I am currently having alot of problems with Roehl. I have been with them approx 2 years now, and spend all day getting bent over the table. The first 6 months was really good, they got me home on time for the most part, and my 2 dispatchers had a combined 42 years over the road before getting behind the desk (Eddie and Erik in the Ellenwood, Ga. terminal). Since then the office was reorganized and I was put with a girl (Lori) and a guy by the name of Rodney. Lori is able to at least make you feel like she is doing everything she can, but Rodney is very patronizing, hard to deal with, and unable to get people on thier special ‘hometime’ fleet home on time. Also, I have caught him lying to me on several occations yet he still is constantly expecting you to do ‘favors’ for them. My current issue is more the problem though. Few weeks ago I had to go home for medical reasons, I was put on some medications that I could not take while driving so my lauch was pushed out for a week. After a few days I was ready to go back to work so I called in to get a load. I was dispatched on a load that would take me approx 1100 miles out and everything appeared to be good. However, the minute I dropped the load I was shut down by safety. They told me that I never recived a releace from my doctor to come back to work. Now, I was ARMY for over 6 years and never needed a releace to come back to work from a doctors care, nor have I ever been at a job that required such. I was told by the women in safety that I talked with that it was her job to tell me that I had to have a releace to come back, but she obviously did not (and even though she admitted the mistake, fleet manager still put all the blame on me, and treated me like I was some stray dog stealing his dogs food). They split a team to have one pick me and truck up and take me to closest terminal where I would get checked out by a doctor to come back. However, no doctor would releace me so, we decided to make arrangments to get me back home to see doctors there. During the same time it was determined that my truck needed to stay in Atlanta and that when I came back out it would be in another truck from my home yard. The company who had always put me in a rental car for everything before was now about to put me on a bus, making me leave 3 large boxes of gear at the Terminal 900 miles from home. All I was told about my gear was that in cases past they would send it all to me C.O.D. but in this case they ‘were not sure’.
As far as milage, I myself have only been averaging 2100 miles or so a week for months now. I am on salery so they would run me harder that others. In terminals and yards I have talked to milage drivers that have only been getting 600-800 miles a week. They give you 1100 miles loads but 6 days to do it, and it is always to someone that will not take the load early.
If you live in the south, do not expect to get anything fixed. They fight to make sure that even DOT violation items will be worked at in a terminal. Even something as simple as tires are always in short supply at terminals, and in one case I was told that “yes your tires are bad, but it either take these that are ’slightly’ better, or wait a week here in the terminal for the tire truck to show up.” Everything is done cheap and I have only met one mechanic in the company that could even count the fingers on his hands.
I know of at least one trainer that drives around stoned on Vicatin, and I have talked to guys that have been with the company since before Rick Roehl took over, and I was told that drivers were treated alot better before he took over.
This company is only worried about the loads, they don’t care about anything but the loads. They don’t care about maintanance untill they have to, they don’t care about you unless you make them. I have had to strong-arm dispatchers to get me home on time, and dispite thier safety speaches, I have been told to run illegal to get stuff there on time.
Overall, I would not recomend this company to my worst enemy. The more I think about my time with Roehl the more I feel like I have been raped.
Roehl Transport Review by Anonymous, January 17, 2009
I drive for Roehl.. 1. Paper work is minimal. You have logs on paper and your trip sheets. Otherwise the Qual-Comm is used for everything else. Every job has some paperwork associated with it and without it you don’t get paid. I have not found the “paperwork” to be that bad. Time consuming at times but really not any worse than other jobs I have had. 2. Inverters can be installed in a truck but only by company mechanics. Maximum size is 1000. There is an initial cost to the driver that is taken out of 4 paychecks. If you move trucks then you pay a lesser amount to have it move. I have an inverter in my truck and it is heaven. Run my microwave, computer and small Dirt Devil (clean truck) with it. 3. Log as you go. Log legal and there is no problem. Try to bend the rules and you will be spoken to about the problem. My math was bad one time and ran over my 70 in 8 days by 15 min. It was brought to my attention. Otherwise they are not really anal but just trying to run a legal trucking company. Run legal…no problems with the safety department. 4. Qual-comm messages are a no-no when driving. The only trucks that the Qual-comm works when the vehicle is in operation is team trucks and trainer trucks. If a message comes in while you are driving it just beeps every few minutes to remind you that you have a message waiting. Just pull over for 2 minutes and see what is needed. 5. Ah directions…that is another story. The story is that they allowed an intern last year go through and clean up the directional data base. Now we have some problems with some directions. Things are getting better and I find that with the help of my computer (just using Streets at present which works ok) I have reduced my loss time significantly. I also make sure that I spend time every night reviewing my directions for the next day and have them written out so that I can follow them as I drive. I have started a file that I put in the corrections for directions and turn them into my Fleet Manager so that corrections can be made in the system.
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