![]() Orientation/Training - Conley - George is an interesting guy. While he had his style of hubris (all good), he also cared for the group in a unique way. A blend of room commander, sharp with, good relations at the right time and sorting who was for real and who was not. In a room full of cowboys, he was almost flawless. Orientation - Conley - It takes a certain personality to manage some 14 new recruits in one week for orientation. recruiter - an absolute gem all the through the process. I have had an excellent experience and wanted to send the names of folks that have made my experience so positive. And at 61, I have left to make a big change (and excited about it) and "hitting the road".Įnough about me. I was the industrial sleep business unit manager for a $100+ million DME (durable medical equipment) in NC heavily involved in the trucking sleep apnea side of the business. I recently left the corporate world to become a worker bee. Again there are worse and better companies out there but the business is the same no matter who you drive for. The median income for a trucker is 42k a year(600 a week) if that sounds good for 70 hours a week and rarely being home then go for it. Understand that up front and make a decision from there. Trucking is a tough business with low profit margins. You WILL NOT MAKE 60K in your first year that is a flat out lie. No the family atmosphere isn't there, they don't care about people they are too big for that. As with any big trucking company don't believe anything your told it's all lies just to get you moving. There are some very good ones but most are either incompetent or hands tied with ridiculous corporate rules. Planners and dispatch as a whole are a joke. They brag on their saftey awards but don't give credit to the drivers since they are the ones actually winning the awards not the office people. You will be trained and taught pretty good. Once you get experience they will try to move you along to put a cheaper driver in the seat. They are centered on training new drivers to keep cost down and profit up. There is worse out there and there is better. So unless they fire me for sharing humor(lol), I plan to ride with Roehl until the wheels fall off. That moment set me on a path of true success here at Roehl. I’m truly glad the first company fired me. Never did I think that day would bring me to a company who was so into driver success. Now I working in orientation as a trainer foundations instructor. Since then, I’ve been a flatbed solo driver, flatbed driver trainer, curtainside driver trainer, lease operator/ trainer and owner operator trainer. I never thought that moment would have brought me here. She took my information and got me processed and set up for orientation in Ellenwood, GA. I spoke to a wonderful recruiter on the phone. Thankfully for me, I saved that voicemail. ![]() My second day in orientation, I was terminated/ let go for reasons they wouldn’t specify to me. I already had applied and been accepted at a southeast regional trucking company. I saved the voicemail for some strange reason. I applied and got a call back, but I didn’t take the call. My story at Roehl transport didn’t begin at Roehl. ![]()
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