If you got accepted at Roehl....

You will sit over Holiday weekends, but you will be dispatched to ensure ROEHL doesn't pay you a layover.

Aw, c'mon. Plenty of time for sunsets, rainbows, and sightseeing.

If you are recent graduate from a reputable CDL school, then don't waste your time with Roehl, and all the other mega-carriers offering to repay your loan. Look around for a carrier that has a low turnover. They don't advertise, but they do hire. Try your local yellow pages instead of some truckstop rag.

Amen! But you'll never get anyone around here to listen. They're hell-bent on living out of a box for .34 cpm.

[Snowman7]

If you are on Hometime Plus, you better be able to budget your money.
This is a very CHEAP company.
You will drive very SLOW and darn near panic when you go over 67MPH.
Ignore 4 of the 5 Stars in the 5 Star Pay Program.
Groveton will close after the end of the year (Waussau is shutting down).
Did I say they are cheap?
You will need to call in and get a PO to buy ANYTHING?
Hometime is great.
HR and Payroll is great.
Hometime Plus, you will slipseat in their worst equipment.

You will sit over Holiday weekends, but you will be dispatched to ensure ROEHL doesn't pay you a layover.

It is a training company. Ignore everything in the 5-Stars except the CPM. Unless your goal is to become a trainer YOU WILL BE GONE years before you catch any of them Shooting STARS! They are Shooting Stars - they VAPORIZE.

If you NEED (not merely want) to go to a company to train you, then GO with ROEHL or SCHNEIDER. Don't fall prey to the CRE's, Swifts, and CRST's of the world. If you can beg, borrow, and steal your way through a REPUTABLE CDL school, then DO IT. It will save you a year or so of servitude and working for peanuts.

If you are recent graduate from a reputable CDL school, then don't waste your time with Roehl, and all the other mega-carriers offering to repay your loan. Look around for a carrier that has a low turnover. They don't advertise, but they do hire. Try your local yellow pages instead of some truckstop rag.

Company's with high driver turnover operate that way. They don't want drivers to accumulate paid time off, or vest benefits.

Company's with low turnover operate that way. They want the operations of the company to run like clockwork, no cutting corners, and competency.

Look at the freight. Is it going to Big Lots, or E.I. duPont De Nemours?

You get the hint. Cheap Freight to bargain basement companies. Or world class freight to world class companies.

Just trying to help.

Wow! Someone who actually gets it! This is one of the best posts I've read in a long time. There are good jobs out there if you're background is clean, you're reliable, and you know where to look (or maybe, where not to look). :wink:

[trux]

Big Lots? I just came from Big Lots....lol

Anyway, 4 months and my year is done. But the company I'm looking at wants a year and a half.

Playin' it by ear here.