Roehl Transport, one of North America’s safest and most successful trucking companies, is celebrating 60 years of Safety and Service in 2022. The company has a variety of events planned throughout the year, including recently at the company’s annual awards banquet that recognized driver honorees for their accomplishments and all teammates for specific anniversary milestones.
 

In this post from from Daniel Walton, a Roehl Transport truck driver, you'll hear how the former ship captain got tuition-free CDL training through Roehl. Daniel is also a Certified Driver Trainer and was honored as a finalist in the Trucking's Top Rookie competition in 2019.

Watch this series of videos taken over the last year as four drivers who have no CDL and no cdl driving experience go through Roehl's tuition-free CDL training program and then to over the road training and behind. See their successes and challenges in Roehl's on-the-job paid CDL training program, as they go out with their trainers and become solo truck drivers. To learn more about how you can get paid while you get your CDL, use this step by step CDL guide.

Roehl Transport has announced a major pay change for the company’s driving teammates. The revolutionary changes will significantly increase company driver pay across Roehl’s National, Regional and Home Daily Fleets – raising driver wages 12-14% in many instances.

Tim Norlin, Roehl's Vice President of Driver Employment, recently joined KC Phillips on RoadDog Live at the Mid-America Trucking Show. Tim talks about how Roehl continues to innovate driver pay, covering how Roehl was one of the first major carriers to pay practical route miles, then how Roehl moved to address-to-address practical route miles and now to Roehl’s new mileage band pay scales.

Earlier this year, Roehl Transport contributed 7% of gross wages to participant accounts as profit sharing.

To ensure that new drivers meet a standard level of safety, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has created the Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) mandate. The ELDT establishes a uniform national benchmark to ensure all new drivers have the same safety skills regardless of their licensed state, the truck driving school or CDL training program where they learned to drive. In this article, we address some frequently ask questions surrounding the topic of ELDT.

Update 2/10/2021: There have been reports that certain DMVs are turning away students who are trying to get the Commercial Learners Permit (CLP), which is not supposed to be happening. If you go to a DMV and are told you need to pass the theory portion of your training first, give them this information:

24. Sequence of ELDT
 
In [the] final rule, FMCSA retains the approach proposed in the NPRM; there is no mandatory order in which the theory, BTW-range, and BTW-public road training must be administered nor does the rule require that theory training must be completed before obtaining a CLP.

Learn more about paid CDL Training in an Indiana truck driving with Roehl Transport. 

Tim Norlin, Roehl Transport's Vice President of Driver Employment, sits down for an interview with Ellen Voie, the President & CEO of the Women in Trucking (WIT) Association to discuss driver training, in addition to several other topics. Roehl Transport has been name a Top Company for Women to Work for in Transportation.

Roehl Transport will pay company driving teammates more than $3.5 million in safety incentives in 2022. That amount is based on how much the company paid drivers in 2021 after a sweeping increase in accident free pay.