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So I was a roehl reefer driver for 2 years. Been gone a year now just cause I need to be home with family. With reefer you will spend more time waiting in a dock than van. Your lanes will be a lot of Wisconsin to the northeast with a lot of Pennsylvania loads and back. You’ll get to know all the exits on the Ohio turnpike we’ll. But if you stay out 3 weeks minimum at a time and run the loads safely and make appointments on time you can make good money. I averaged 2300 to 3200 miles a week while out 7 days. You most likely be on recap hours since the runs do tend to be shorter and you spend more time sitting on a dock loading and unloading. With van you might get more miles and take a 34 hour reset but your cpm is less so the money will be about the same. My thought is reefer is less driving so you do less work for the same pay. Good luck and you can always change if you don’t like the choice.

Real bad idea. I should have read it. However it didn’t matter. Roehl turned out good for me.

Really poor idea to sign any legal contract during orientation, or any other time, and not read it.

I went through the program. I didn’t even read what I was signing on the first day of orientation. The instructor didn’t say anything about it just we needed to sign something. I probably should have done more due diligence. But whatever I was motivated to succeed. Just go into it with the right attitude and read the articles on this site. The roehl program was great. I stayed with them for 2 years and it was amazing. The training was good the equipment was great and the people in the office in Marshfield were all great. I recommend it to anyone wanting to get in the industry. I only quit to be home more and my new company isn’t nearly as good as roehl. If you work hard, listen to them, and have the right attitude it will go well.

I was watching this and thinking how often gps messes up. I’m a trainer with roehl and they tells us when with a student turn the gps off and look at the atlas and write down the directions. Have the student do that before they use the gps. What happens with the gps goes out is the machine going to take the atlas out and write down the directions? Lol. Or how about when I loose cell service for stretches along 80 in Pennsylvania. I mean how am I loosing cell service with att on one of the busiest highways in the country while in the northeast the most populated area of the country? And you think these trucks are going to do it themselves. It’s a joke. I love watching this younger generation talk about how technology is going to take over the world and I’m not even 40.

What fleet are you going to be on?

I just delivered to the Walmart in johnstown ny. I had a nice run from appleton Wisconsin. That bridge going over the River was tight. It’s nice up there in upstate New York. I then went to Chobani in new Berlin and back to Chicago. I always enjoy upstate New York. Even in the winter time. Lol.

It took me at least a good year to figure this out. Even after reading almost every one of your posts and others on this site it didn’t click until after I’ve done it over and over again. You need experience doing this job before you can learn thing things like this. Some pick it up right away some take a while and some get mad that they don’t ever get good miles. I explain this to my new students all the time and just hope they listen a little. Good post.

From Trey Gowdy: "I'm not saying Covid-19 isn't real... But Pay attention folks, there's much more going on here than what meets the eye. Is it a coincidence that just when the economy is booming, the stock market is setting record highs, we are winning the trade wars, school shootings have stopped, our nation is at peace, the Democratic party is a disaster and so is their likely nominee? (Biden). He hasn't a chance in hell & they're not about to let an outsider(Bernie) destroy their scheme. It looks like Trump is a sure bet for reelection after fending off 3 years of investigations and impeachment, then all of a sudden world crisis pandemic. Stock market tumbles, companies are laying off employees, everything is closed and canceled, CEO's of giant companies are resigning and indictments are coming. Now they say there are a couple ways a President doesn't win reelection. Those are an unpopular war or a poor economy. But there is something larger going on here driving this sudden outbreak right after Trump beats an impeachment. Especially the fact that it (Corona Virus) originated in China who we are in a global trade war with; brought on by Trump. Let's not forget Biden's back door deals with CHINA as well. China doesn't want 4 more years of Trump either. It all seems rather convenient for the nations and opponents of our current President and economy 5 months before an election. Couldn't have hit at a more perfect time. With the Democrats running out of campaign talking points, in light of no school shootings, no migrant caravans at the southern border, fighting in Syria winding down, North Korea not firing missiles and Trump beating a sham impeachment. The Corona Virus gave them one last hail Mary to try and point fingers at Trump with the clock winding down in 2020. This is almost the perfect fascist playbook. Control the population with fear-mongering and panic, control the media, spread propaganda and the fan-favorite disarm the population. Oh, and did anyone notice that while they are mad as hell at Trump for not sending aid to Ukraine, they THEMSELVES voted AGAINST giving ANY emergency aid to all Americans ? Sorry but I don't think we are all going to die. Remember when Ebola was what was going to kill us all, and the media kept showing the piles of body bags that were prepared for the fallout. Then a month later it was totally forgotten. The common flu has killed more people this year already and the media is SILENT! A handful of deaths out of 320 million Americans and we are in panic tearing down our society and costing our economy billions in the wake. It all just seems fishy, a little too well-timed if you ask me." Trey Gowdy

Man I love reading this page. You put out some good stuff regarding this virus. The way certain politicians are acting and using it as a weapon makes it look like it’s a way of damaging trump. I wonder of this Dr Fauci Is a political plant. We have to take what he says as the gospel and trump can’t do a thing about it. He just said the other night that we shouldn’t leave our homes till there are no new cases and no new deaths. Think about that for a moment. That won’t happen for months. But they all say he is the expert and we have to listen to him. This whole thing just seems so weird. We’ll see what happens. I was going to switch to hauling fuel from hauling refrigerated but not anytime soon. I’m busy as can be hauling reefer.

Yes it’s a week after a being employed a year

They’re both good. I went to appleton and it is a newer terminal and cleaner but not as many people there. Marshfield has the big office and it is the corporate home. Really doesn’t matter which one you go to. I’m from Indy too and it is a good company to go to. I definitely recommend it.

Thank you for your response. Do we get to have like a vacation days(a month) in future after driving solo. Because i got my family living in Europe and would always want to visit twice every year.