Roehl Transport
 

How are they these days? I know they use to have a good reputation.

I left them in June of this year. Miles were down and I am hearing they are low now. Miles have suffered in all companies so I don't know if Roehl is worse than others in that regard. Now as for the company as a whole, I never had a problem with payroll. Things have changed for the worse in management. Drivers are always wrong. My DSR use to be great but she changed. I guess some of that can be contributed to pressure from the higher ups to be more hard nosed. There is no open door policy. Don't dare disagree with what is being said to you or try to give your side of a story. There is only one side and it's theirs.

This saddens me... I worked for them back in 2005 and they kept me running, kept their promises in regards to getting home, and if I ever had a question my driver manager took care of it no problem. It's a shame to hear they've gone this way.

Both I and GEG had quite a number of things to say about Roehl on another thread. I drove for them for 2 years and fought with them for the whole time. From what I understood from talking with long time drivers at the company hq in Marshfield, WI they moved from a very good regional carrier that treated the drivers right to a typical large company with little regard for the drivers. In the right locality you might have a different experiance and do well with them.

worked for reohl too.
since i live in pa, they could not get me home.
i wont be going back there.

Search past posts on Roehl and you will see how they have changed. I worked for them for a year, and it was the most miserable company I've ever worked for. Stay FAR away from this company, they have no respect for drivers, and promise the world and deliver nothing. Had to quit because it was just unbearable. Also, by far the the CHEAPEST company I've ever worked for. Im not going to go through the details... search my previous posts. All I can do is try to steer other honest people away from this company.

Hey diselgrl how is Arrow treating you? I know of a driver (and I use that word loosely in his regard) that worked for him and he complained about them all the time.

I left Arrow this past year shortly after the birth of my little girl (I had been working in house since late '07). Arrow's full of good people, but the economy had hit them hard right as I left - we had just undergone in house layoffs. I've not heard from friends that still work there how things are going, but I see their looking for flatbed experienced in their ads nowadays which is a promising sign. When I was a lease driver for them, I made good money, got home when I wanted, and had a great relationship with all the offices there. Lately there have been some major shakeups in the higher ups which could be great, bad, or totally indifferent in the end. I'd consider going back to them once the economy pulled up some...right now freight is too limited for me to consider a flat-only company. Diversity through bad times = chances for more miles.

It is a shame. I'm not sure that they are the cheapest company to work for, I did ok on the mileage pay, but they tried to nickel and dime you to death on everything else and refused to pay for things if there was the least reason to get out of it.

Example: I had a delivery on Long Island that was scheduled for 0900. I arrived at the customer at 0900 by my watch and walked up to the check-in, was told what door to back into, went back to my truck and sent my "here I am message" then put it into a door. I was at the customer for 6 hrs. Since they pay detention for anything over 2 hrs this would mean 4hrs paid right? Nope. Since my qualcomm message was sent at 0907 I was 7 minutes late for my appointment so wouldn't be getting any detention pay. I'm not kidding on this. If the dispatcher and her boss had ever driven a truck then they would have realized getting to a customer within 15 mins of the appointment time of 0900 on Long Island was pretty good and well withing the 1 hr leeway the customer allowed. To top it off I was at the customer so long they pulled my next load and I sat in a truckstop the next day waiting for a load. Did I mention that this delivery was the day before Thanksgiving and I sat T-Day in Bordentown?

Dickey crap like that is what I mean about the company going from a good place to work to one that didnt care about the drivers anymore. My only consolation is that Rick lost his shirt when he bought out my old company, the papermill next to it shut down and he had to close the terminal. Payback as far as I'm concerned.

I totally know what you mean about the nickel and dime crap. What company did he buy out other than Blume Farms? I know he just brought out ORT out of New London Wi. another refeer company. Funny thing is I hardly see any Roehl trucks out there especially refeers. I would love to see Roehl go down the drain. Only thing is I wouldn't want to see drivers lose their jobs. As far as the office people go, I could care less.

I guess as a driver/office person I need to pop my head back in here. It's sad to hear policy has gotten so bad up there, but I'm sure it's not the idea of everyone in the office to screw over drivers - it's generally a brain wave of upper management and everyone else gets caught in the middle just trying to hang onto their jobs. Being upset with the honchos, yeah, I'm for that 100% when a good company goes crappy....but blaming everyone down the food chain seems to be a touch extreme. Then again, maybe they are all to blame, I can't speak to Roehl's policies inside.

I agree that the DSR, fleet managers are generally puppets but when a DSR who is suppose to be a friend (we were socialize together along with our husbands, visit at her home when we were in town and on a layover or 34 hour reset, stands by and helps to hang you out to dry that stinks. At the very least she could have called at my home to see how we were and to explain what happened and at the very least say she was sorry for everything that happened, I wouldn't feel so betrayed. But it is the higher up management that has changed for the worse.

He bought the New Hampshire terminal of Wausau Carriers Inc. and the trucks based out of there. The Wausau terminal and trucks were bought by Deboer.

I saw a Roehl reefer in the Wal-Mart DC, Henderson the other day. He also bought a flower refridge company in Marshfield. Guess he wants to expand into reefer freight to go with vans and flats. Vans are bad enough but the loading/unloading times in reefer freight can be so long that if he tries that bull nickel and dime crap like he did me I can't see many drivers putting up with it for long. I see Roehl trucks down here in NC once in awhile which is odd because they have a yard in Atlanta and one in Florence, SC.

I hardly see any Roehl trucks at all. Maybe one every once in awhile. I use to be in their refeer division and I know what you mean about the loading/unloading time. We lost so much time waiting around. Only good thing was since we drove team it didn't hurt that much but when I was solo it sucks. I find it hard to believe that Roehl is doing well in refeer let alone the other divisions. I guess we will see. On one forum someone posted Wolding was buying out Roehl and on another a Roehl I/C said it was the other way around. Can't say I would be heartbroken if Roehl was brought out.

Wolding? I heard they were in desperate straights and laying off drivers just like WH. Funny how you hear all kinds of stuff on the road only half of it true and you never really know which half. I think Roehl is kinda big for Wolding to swallow but who knows.

From the way they treated me and the other drivers at my old company I kinda hope they do go under but thats being a little mean on my part.

The next time I see one of their trucks in the DC I'll ask the driver what the news is.

Yeah I guess me hoping they get brought out is mean on my part. No reason for the drivers to suffer. I thought is was strange that Wolding would be in the position to buying out Roehl. The life of a driver. 10% truth 90% BS. LOL

You get told the truth 10% of the time? Your with a great company, never leave. :)

I hope Roehl does get bought out. I also hope they allow the drivers to keep their jobs, as it would probably be a huge improvment for the drivers. I used to see Roehl trucks all the time, now they are few and far between. If they do go under, I hope the management gets what they deserve... you can only treat people badly for so long before karma catches up with you.

Rick had great plans to expand into New England and the Southeast. Maybe with the economy tanking and his disaster in New England with my old company he has decided to concentrate on Roehls traditional lanes in the Mid-West for the time being. Of course, this would be to imply some business savvy on his part and from his exploits I wonder about that.

Roehl transport sux
 

I left Roehl Dec.12, after being out 11 days on a 7 day run. I sleep in 13-15 degree weather, about froze my butt off. They wouldn't fix the bunk heater and haven't yet, or anything else on the truck for that matter. My partner is still driving the truck, but going to quit as soon as he get's in. We were on the 7 days on then 7 days off. It sounds good, but the tks are a pile of junk and they won't fix anything. They still owe me for 8.25 hrs detention from Dec. 9 and yeasterday the Operations Mgr. at Ellenwood, Ga. said they were not going to pay me. I relayed the load to another driver and he didn't get the bills signed by the receiver like they should have been. That was not my problem, but they said they would not pay. Don't WORK for this ripoff company. Warning, Warning, Warning

I really hope more people keep posting about Roehl. I was told at orientation that they read all of the posts and follow trucking message boards. I hope that they change for the better... for the sake of the drivers. I work with different companies in my current job.. in transportation, and I never waste an oppertunity to tell companies how unorginized Roehl is, and why they should stay away from them for their shipping needs. If they would have just treated me a bit better, I probably would have never even cared, but its been over 2 years and Im still OUTRAGED that I was treated so badly, and have NEVER been so disrespected. Like everyone else is saying STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY... STAY FAAAAR AWAY!!!

I know what you mean. Its been a couple of years and I'm still angry over not only I but everyone at my terminal was treated by this company.