Roehl Transport
{{Short description|American trucking company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Roehl Transport, Inc.
| logo = Roehl Transport logo.svg
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| type = Private
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1962}} in Marshfield, Wisconsin
| founder = Everett Roehl
| location_city = Marshfield, Wisconsin
| location_country = United States
| location =
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| area_served = North America
| key_people = {{Ubl|Rick Roehl (CEO)|John Spiros (VP of Safety)}}
| industry = Transportation
| products =
| services =
| revenue = $450 million (est.)
| revenue_year = 2020
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| owner = Roehl family
| parent =
| divisions = {{ubl|Roehl Refrigerated|Roehl Flatbed & Specialized}}
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| website = {{Url|roehl.jobs}}
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Roehl Transport, Inc. is an American trucking company based in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The company provides national transportation and logistics services. It ranked 73rd on the Transport Topics Top 100 For-Hire list of US and Canadian freight carriers by revenue for 2021 with an estimated $450 million in revenue for the previous year.{{Cite web |date=December 31, 2020 |title=Roehl Transport |url=https://www.ttnews.com/top100/companies/roehl/2021 |access-date=April 1, 2022 |website=Transport Topics |language=en}}
History
Everett Roehl founded Roehl Transport in 1962 with a single truck.{{Cite web |title=About Roehl Transport |url=https://www.roehl.jobs/about-roehl |access-date=2018-06-28 |publisher=Roehl.Jobs}}
Starting in the late 1980s, the company began offering on the job training for recent commercial driver's license (CDL) school graduates. It also founded a certified truck driving school, the Roehl Transport CDL School, later renamed the Get Your CDL Program.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
In 2013, Roehl bought Brock Cold Storage and Trucking{{Cite web |date=2013-10-28 |title=Roehl Transport Purchases Brock Cold Storage and Trucking Operations |url=https://www.ttnews.com/articles/roehl-transport-purchases-brock-cold-storage-and-trucking-operations |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=Transport Topics |language=en}} merging Brock's trucking operations into Roehl but maintaining the cold storage business as a separate division, Roehl Cold Storage.{{Cite news |date=October 28, 2013 |title=Roehl purchases Brock Cold Storage and Trucking |language=en |work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/roehl-transport-purchases-brock-cold-storage-and-trucking-b99129706z1-229553911.html |access-date=April 1, 2022}}{{Cite web |date=2013-10-29 |title=Roehl purchases Brock Cold Storage and Trucking ops |url=https://www.fleetowner.com/refrigerated-transporter/cold-storage-logistics/article/21229629/roehl-purchases-brock-cold-storage-and-trucking-ops |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=FleetOwner |language=en}}
The company revised its driver pay calculations in 2019 to be based on address-to-address mileage. Roehl had previously used the "Practical Route Mileage" model, which calculates driver pay on city center-to-city center mileage, since 2004.{{Cite news |title=Roehl Enhances Practical Route Mileage Pay |url=https://www.truckinginfo.com/349119/roehl-transport-enhances-practical-route-mileage-pay |work=Trucking Info |publisher=Heavy Duty Trucking |date=January 17, 2020}} Driver pay was revised again in 2022, with pay raises for drivers.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-11 |title=Roehl Raises Pay With New Driver Compensation Plan |url=https://www.ttnews.com/articles/roehl-raises-pay-new-driver-compensation-plan |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=Transport Topics |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-06-01 |title=Roehl Transport raises driver pay with new model |url=https://www.ccjdigital.com/ccj-innovators/article/15291515/roehl-transport-raises-driver-pay-with-new-model |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=Commercial Carrier Journal |language=en-us}}
Operations
The company has over 2,950 employees, 1,900 tractors and 5,200 trailers{{Cite news |last=Maiden |first=Todd |date=April 26, 2021 |title=Roehl Transport announces second pay bump of 2021 |language=en-US |url=https://www.freightwaves.com/news/roehl-transport-announces-second-pay-bump-of-2021 |work=Freight Waves |access-date=April 1, 2022}} with major terminal operations in Marshfield and Appleton, Wisconsin, the Chicago area, Atlanta, Georgia, Phoenix, Arizona, and Dallas.{{Cite web |title=Roehl Transport Locations |url=https://www.roehl.jobs/about-roehl/locations |access-date=June 28, 2018 |website=Roehl Transport}}
= Sustainability =
In 2013, U.S. Oil's GAIN Clean Fuels division, in partnership with Roehl, opened a compressed natural gas (CNG) station at Roehl's Gary, Indiana terminal. Roehl operates CNG-fuelled trucks from several of its terminals.{{Cite news |last=Steele |first=Andrew |title=Roehl Transport celebrates opening of CNG station |url=http://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/roehl-transport-celebrates-opening-of-cng-station/article_a0c22ed8-1608-54bb-930d-56d9f0e1d992.html |location=Gary, Indiana |work=NWI Times |date=October 2, 2014}}{{Cite magazine |date=October 14, 2014 |title=Gain opens CNG station for Roehl Transport |url=http://fleetowner.com/running-green/gain-opens-cng-station-roehl-transport |magazine=Fleet Owner |access-date=April 1, 2022}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|roehl.jobs}}
{{Trucking industry in the United States}}
Category:Trucking companies of the United States
Category:Privately held companies based in Wisconsin
Category:Transport companies established in 1962