Roehl Company Sponsored Training

Yes, please post and let me know what they say. I really do like what I see on their website. However the website says 120k miles, so 75k is even better

I know that the 75k is for those with CDL's coming into the company. Pretty much all we need is to do orientation and then get assigned our trainers.

Do you have anything specific you want to know? I'll be sure to add it to the list. They're my first choice and, if we both go with them maybe we'll see each other! :D

Yes, please post and let me know what they say. I really do like what I see on their website. However the website says 120k miles, so 75k is even better

I know that the 75k is for those with CDL's coming into the company. Pretty much all we need is to do orientation and then get assigned our trainers.

Do you have anything specific you want to know? I'll be sure to add it to the list. They're my first choice and, if we both go with them maybe we'll see each other! :D

Just want to know if they're sincere. And exactly how the course works. They are my first choice also, so I just want to know if it's real or just a sales pitch

The main thing that trucking truth doesn't teach is the need to be an independent person everything else I learned from this website and community and I would say I'm succeeding at my new career.

Jake Brake, your killing me man!

The idea and need of being an independent person in this career is a golden thread that runs all throughout this website. The blogs and forum threads are filled with that very important philosophy.

Here's a random quote from an old thread where I pointed this out to someone. It is a direct quote, except I added the bold type to the specific line - this stuff is all throughout the forums

Zen Joker, I'm a flat-bedder and a lot of the times my delivery times will tell me what day of the week and what hours they will be receiving. As an example it may tell me to deliver on June the 9th from 7am - 3pm. Therefore you get to manage your own time and make it work out however you want to manage your own clock. Some people will prefer driving all night and arriving at 7am, get unloaded and then go take a break. Another person may prefer to drive all day on the day ahead and get to the receiver that night and shut down waiting for them to arrive in the morning and unload when they get started that morning, then go get another load and drive all day again. You'll figure all this out once you get your own chance to do it. What you don't want to make a habit of is getting there at the last minute - I see a lot of drivers doing this. This is the kind of stuff that keeps you from being able to get on another load that same day. These are the little details that help you be successful at this.

Most of my loads are live loads, but occasionally we have customers that we leave empty flat-bed trailers at so we can just go drop and hook when they let us know that we have a loaded trailer ready.

There are also a few industrial sites that I go to that only load or only receive between the hours of midnight and six a.m.

One of the great things about driving a truck is the independent way the job is managed. Once you get the hang of how to manage your time you really can be creative and make it work to your advantage. I recently ran a high value load with about 2800 miles on the trip. Since this load is worth about 1.4 million dollars, for security reasons they want us to run it with another driver who is carrying the same load. We had to stop at the same places together, park together, and stay together the whole trip. We would discuss driving over meals together and I discovered real quickly that he didn't get near the miles that I do, and it was simply a matter of not understanding some simple techniques about managing the hours. After several conversations I thought I could see the light bulb going off in his mind, and he thanked me profusely for sharing with him things that no one else had ever explained to him. For me it just seems like common sense, but when a person hasn't been exposed to the ins and outs of the rules of HOS they don't realize what they can be doing to help themselves out and still stay within the legal limits of the law. I give my props to Brett's High Road Training Program because that section on logs in there has mad my career far more successful than it would have been had I not been exposed to the nuances of the law and how the rules work.

Yes, please post and let me know what they say. I really do like what I see on their website. However the website says 120k miles, so 75k is even better

I know that the 75k is for those with CDL's coming into the company. Pretty much all we need is to do orientation and then get assigned our trainers.

Do you have anything specific you want to know? I'll be sure to add it to the list. They're my first choice and, if we both go with them maybe we'll see each other! :D

Yens!!! We pulled that game out! Sorry had to add that...

Yeah thats cool Harley. But I wasn't mad at the company for the contract. I was disappointed but not mad. I understand why they do it. All companies have an angle to retain good people. I don't like their angle is all. And Im just a bit jaded I think from a bad experience (with another company). So it set me back. I am 44 years old and worked a lot of jobs. So has my wife. We have never heard of anything like this. Her co-worker who is older has a husband who has been trucking for 20+ years, had never heard of it. He didn't bad mouth it. Just said it sounded weird.

I was a little upset with Errol. I just feel he was quick to imply something that was not the case. And after I tried to correct his assumptions it was like he didn't even read them. So.... yeah I cant help that. All I can do is try not too feed the fire. Which admittedly I didn't do very good job of.

Good luck to both of you guys. If I go I will be going to Phoenix so odds are we wont bump into each other at orientation lol.

The main thing that trucking truth doesn't teach is the need to be an independent person everything else I learned from this website and community and I would say I'm succeeding at my new career.

Jake Brake, your killing me man!

The idea and need of being an independent person in this career is a golden thread that runs all throughout this website. The blogs and forum threads are filled with that very important philosophy.

Here's a random quote from an old thread where I pointed this out to someone. It is a direct quote, except I added the bold type to the specific line - this stuff is all throughout the forums

Zen Joker, I'm a flat-bedder and a lot of the times my delivery times will tell me what day of the week and what hours they will be receiving. As an example it may tell me to deliver on June the 9th from 7am - 3pm. Therefore you get to manage your own time and make it work out however you want to manage your own clock. Some people will prefer driving all night and arriving at 7am, get unloaded and then go take a break. Another person may prefer to drive all day on the day ahead and get to the receiver that night and shut down waiting for them to arrive in the morning and unload when they get started that morning, then go get another load and drive all day again. You'll figure all this out once you get your own chance to do it. What you don't want to make a habit of is getting there at the last minute - I see a lot of drivers doing this. This is the kind of stuff that keeps you from being able to get on another load that same day. These are the little details that help you be successful at this.

Most of my loads are live loads, but occasionally we have customers that we leave empty flat-bed trailers at so we can just go drop and hook when they let us know that we have a loaded trailer ready.

There are also a few industrial sites that I go to that only load or only receive between the hours of midnight and six a.m.

One of the great things about driving a truck is the independent way the job is managed. Once you get the hang of how to manage your time you really can be creative and make it work to your advantage. I recently ran a high value load with about 2800 miles on the trip. Since this load is worth about 1.4 million dollars, for security reasons they want us to run it with another driver who is carrying the same load. We had to stop at the same places together, park together, and stay together the whole trip. We would discuss driving over meals together and I discovered real quickly that he didn't get near the miles that I do, and it was simply a matter of not understanding some simple techniques about managing the hours. After several conversations I thought I could see the light bulb going off in his mind, and he thanked me profusely for sharing with him things that no one else had ever explained to him. For me it just seems like common sense, but when a person hasn't been exposed to the ins and outs of the rules of HOS they don't realize what they can be doing to help themselves out and still stay within the legal limits of the law. I give my props to Brett's High Road Training Program because that section on logs in there has mad my career far more successful than it would have been had I not been exposed to the nuances of the law and how the rules work.

Yes OS I've seen that but being independent isn't something that can really be taught. That's kinda what I ment with that, not that it wasn't emphasized here. In my opinion independent free thinking is something you either have or you don't. And it is something that is really needed to succeed out here.

The main thing that trucking truth doesn't teach is the need to be an independent person everything else I learned from this website and community and I would say I'm succeeding at my new career.

You have to be joking. We talk about it all the time. I just did a search for the phrase "fiercely independent" and it has been used in this forum 26 times and 16 of them were by me personally and even once by Old School. Just a few weeks ago I said:

This is certainly not the industry to be in if you're timid or your prefer a safer, more predictable life. In fact, this job is really best for people who are highly adventurous, the ones who go out of their way to seek out challenges instead of avoiding them. You also have to be fiercely independent. Even if you're working for a large company you're still making most of the important decisions yourself. You have to be creative, you have to think on the fly, and you have to have the gumption to solve new and unique challenges every single day. If you can't get backed into an ordinary spot at a truck stop or you can't figure out the everyday basics of the job you're simply not going to last long out there.

So you, my friend, owe us an apology cake and I like chocolate. I will allow chocolate cream pie as a substitute if it's homemade and four inches thick, two of which is whipped cream.

So... Back to the original topic:

I have made my decision to go with Roehl's "earn your CDL" program. I've done a TON of research on several companies. Roehl suits me the best. Originally, I was going to get my CDL locally, then go to orientation. However, after I did the math, the "earn your CDL" program at Roehl is actually a good deal. Most other companies want to repay the cost of tuition over 4 or 5 years. This is like paying it off in 1 year. And, getting paid at the same time. I plan on working for them for a minimum of 1 year anyhow.

I talk to the recruiter tomorrow to finalize the details, and set a firm date. If I see anything strange in the contract, I will post it here.

Is carnation your recruiter there?

The person I talked to is Kim Calhoun

Where did you hear Roehl pays vets more?

I start orientation on Monday and this was never mentioned at all.