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.
History
Everett Roehl founded Roehl Transport in 1962 with a single truck.
Starting in the late 1980s, the company began offering on the job training for recent
commercial drivers license
A commercial driver's license (CDL) is a driver's license required in the United States to operate large and heavy vehicles (including trucks, buses, and trailers) or a vehicle of any size that transports hazardous materials or more than 15 p ...
(CDL) school graduates. It also founded a certified truck driving school, the Roehl Transport CDL School, later renamed the Get Your CDL Program.
In 2013, Roehl bought Brock Cold Storage and Trucking merging Brock's trucking operations into Roehl but maintaining the
cold storage business as a separate division, Roehl Cold Storage.
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.
Operations
The company has over 2,950 employees, 1,900
tractors and 5,200
trailers
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** Semi-trailer
**Horse trailer ...
with major
terminal
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* Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
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operations in
Marshfield and
Appleton, Wisconsin, the
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Phoenix, Arizona
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.
Sustainability
In 2013, U.S. Oil's GAIN Clean Fuels division, in partnership with Roehl, opened a
compressed natural gas
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(CNG) station at Roehl's
Gary, Indiana
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terminal. Roehl operates CNG-fuelled trucks from several of its terminals.
References
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{{Trucking industry in the United States
Trucking companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in Wisconsin
Transport companies established in 1962
1962 establishments in Wisconsin
Family-owned companies of the United States