Roehl’s new HOMEtime Plus™ fleets a big hit with drivers.

Drive a week…FISH A WEEK…Drive a week…HUNT A WEEK…. Can it get much better than this? For dozens of drivers at Roehl Transport, the answer 7-On/7-Off is as good as it gets, even though not all of them spend every other week hunting and fishing.

7-On/7-Off is just one of the innovative home time options available to drivers in Roehl’s exclusive HOMEtime PLUS fleets. Known as The Take Home More, Be Home More Carrier™, Roehl has led the industry in developing options that respond to drivers’ desire for more home and family time.

Roehl’s 7/7 fleet offers drivers the ultimate home time – out seven days, then home seven – totaling 26 weeks per year off. The 7/4-7/3 fleet offers drivers high earnings, predictable home time and 120 days per year off. Based on a 21-day cycle, drivers are on seven days, off four, then on seven and off three.

Both fleets are paid at Roehl’s national fleet rate. 7/7 drivers average 75,000 to 78,000 paid miles per year, earning $31,000 to $35,000; while 7/4-7/3 drivers average 95,000 to 105,000 miles per year and can earn $30,000 to $42,000.

The 7/7 option is especially popular with older drivers who are no longer at the stage in their careers where they need to maximize their incomes but value Roehl’s excellent benefits package and the time off. But the opportunity it provides to pursue a sport or hobby, become more involved day-to-day with the family, or even take on a second job like farming or real estate also appeals to younger drivers and the company has recently opened the fleet up to student drivers in many parts of the country.

The attraction of the 7/4-7/3 fleet rests on the fact that despite having 120 days off per year, Roehl’s premier customer base allows 7/4-7/3 drivers to still rack up nearly 80% of the miles they would total as full-time national fleet drivers. Combine that strong mileage potential with a pay package ranked by independent surveys as one of the10 best in the nation, and it adds up to good living. In addition, drivers’ schedules are predictable. You can make plans for a specific day next week, confident you’ll be home to keep them.

While Roehl’s HOMEtime Plus fleets offer drivers extreme home time options, all Roehl drivers enjoy exceptional home time schedules. National fleet drivers are out 7 to10 days and home 2. If they choose to stay out longer, they get up to seven additional days off. Regional fleet drivers get home weekly.

“Drivers often tell us that the real difference when it comes to home time is Roehl’s commitment to making sure it happens,” company President Rick Roehl said. Supporting that commitment, Roehl developed proprietary HOMEbound™ Dispatch technology that integrates with an extensive drop and swap program – ensuring the driver’s last load delivery is toward home. “Getting drivers back home in a timely manner is part of our HOMEbound dispatch planning, right from the first load,” Roehl Vice President of Operations Leon Palmer said. Freight movement, drivers’ home locations and driving time allowable for each driver, as well as drivers’ personal requests, are all matched across our entire system. “The process is complex and requires sophisticated software to manage it on a minute-by-minute basis as each day evolves, but it works,” he added. “Just ask our drivers.”

“The other important thing about our HOMEtime PLUS fleets,” Rick Roehl pointed out, “is that they reflect Roehl’s steadfast commitment to be innovative and lead the industry in developing new ways to improve driver pay and home time. That means Roehl drivers know that as long as they work here, they will be better paid and have more time with their families than just about all the other OTR drivers they meet on the road. Roehl is and always will be The Take Home More, Be Home More Carrier.”

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