Comments By Tracy H.

Hello All I hope to keep this updated during my training at Riehl Transport, Get You CDL Program [GYCDL]). A little about my & why I picked Roehl. I am a late 40 year old Army Vet (not retired from the Army). I closed my computer store about 2 years ago & have been working on my small farm here in North Texas (North of Dallas). Trucking is something I always have wanted to do, when I got out of the Army I worked for Brinks Armored & worked in there over the road team, & loved it. That though was 20 years ago so I am a rookie & newbie to driving & all that was straight struck driving so…… Enough about me so why did I pick Roehl, I really did not have a preference on whether I went to school & paid for it or had a company pay for it, I was about the training & job. I applied at 8 different companies, 3 out right said no since I have been self employed for over a decade they said “sorry that is to long for us” So TMC, Raider, & Hogan I guess do not like self employed people. NONE of them would say what the time limit is for self employment. I could show my W-2’s from my taxes the last decade but they all said – no thank you. So about other companied why I did not go to them (maybe I will in the future). I have NO hard feelings on being told no, they have a business just like I did I really did not care one way or another but would like to have been told straight answers though. I called Knight Transport & talked to 3 different recruiters over a 2 month period while I go my farm & home in order to go to this profession. All 3 I called 3-4 different time & the best I could get was, I will call you back & training for Texas residents is hard on us. That is really all I got, sad I thought that could be a good fit for me. USA Express & OS Transport NEVER got back to me on 3 attempts to talk to them, so I can not tell you anything about them. So it really came down to Schneider, Roehl, & McElroy. I wanted flatbed as I am a worker I thought that would be nice since I am coming from a job (my farm) where I am outside working 14-16 hours a day. McElroy would not give me an offer till I graduated, since I wanted an offer before & started any training that left Schneider & Roehl. I picked Roehl for a few reasons. 1 – They have a flatbed division I can transfer to if I want to (I am starting in Van) 2 – All the drivers I talked to really had nothing to bash them, everything they complained about was nit-picky or slandered “working for the man” issues. 3 – Training – EVERYONE I talked to about Roehl’s training said it was top notch & felt real comfortable after the training & OTR training. 4 – Pay – although not a real big issue pay is nice (as if you guys/gals did not know that) They pay was right there with others with pay raised after 4, 6, & 12 months. 5 – Terminal – where I live there is a local Roehl terminal (there is a lot here in Dallas) 6 – Tie here with Schneider – both the reps I talked to were Honest, Answered all my questions without BS’ing me, & kept me up to date on everything. 7 - Employment day - at Roehl I am an employee on day one of training. That is why I picked Riehl – the next post will be everything I did before my training starts.