1st Year Pay: Breakdown

So you CAN start getting quarterly increases separate from your anniversary raises, but they won't give you decreases based on performance until your third quarter. Since you have to have two down quarters in a row to get a decrease, any decreases wouldn't happen until your fourth quarter.

It's pretty easy to move up starting out since they work on the "performance points" system. As a newbie, you start out low and improve gradually, so pretty much every quarter for me has been an up quarter.

Those pay increases probably become a lot harder to achieve after your first year because your quarterly performance will cap out and then start to fluctuate more instead of always increasing. At some point it becomes impossible to physically turn any more miles. Also, I'm not sure where Roehl cpm caps out at. I am currently on pay level 6 out of 10 (as of last quarter. End of year results won't be in until probably third week of january), but my employee handbook's pay tables must be out of date, because I am making $0.045 cpm more than it says I should be. They must have increased their pay at some point after these books were made. Otherwise I would upload the tables so you could check it out for yourself.

Hope this helps.

Yes Thank You that helps alot. So they do kind of keep raising the bar a little then, right. Before you were at pay level 6 you might have been at say pay level 3 in the beginning and then qualified performance-wise at the level 4 pay and then continued to meet the increasing guidelines at each level until you arrived at your current level 6 pay. And now any further levels will start to be a little tougher to make because as you said stuff begins to cap out at a personal level like mileage which would be more difficult to meet i would imagine, especially if you value your home-time and your "pit-stops" right? and your MPG numbers would be get tougher, too.

Anyway Sounds a lot better than I thought it was. I was on the fence for awhile because I had 2 job offers. And the one glaring difference was the cpm progression. But after doing more research i decided to go with Roehl based on many other factors that were more favorable to them. My recruiter really didn't elaborate that much on the pay scale. She did tell me that the cpm's do cap out at .51 From what I read from other posts about other companies is they usually over sell you on the pay and then when you actually start work you find that they have exaggerated the numbers or you find them way too impossible to achieve. So my recruiter sort of dropped the ball on this one because I almost could have chosen another company, instead. Thanks again for the info.

Your posts are awesome. Very informative. Thanks for sharing. I am seriously considering Roehl as the company to start my professional driver career. It appears that the training is top notch. I do not have a cdl so I would be utilizing their offer to get my col through their company training program. Considering all that and from your experience with them do you have anything to pass on, pro or con? Thanks!

Okay! Here are the last two check of the year 2015.

12/24/15 Mileage: 2,173 (0.415 cpm) + Multistop($15) + Short Haul ($20) + Live Load ($20) = $956.77

- 401K: $95.68

Net: $594.08

12/31/15 Mileage: 604 (0.415 cpm) = $250.65

- 401K: $25.06

Net: $141.93

I was also mailed a $25 Christmas check separate from my regular weekly pay.

YTD Gross: $35,275.72 Retirement: $3,054.36 Net: $22,385.61

It has been a great year and in another month and a half, I will be at one year solo and can shake off my rookie tag!! Truckingtruth has been so so helpful during this adventure, and I am excited for another year of trucking in 2016. Ihope these posts will be helpful for those specifically interested in Roehl's hometime fleets. I have subscribed to this post, so if anyone has any questions about Roehl or anything else they think I can help with, just post on this thread and I will do my best to help you out!