Its hard to say how long Bob had been on the Roach Coach. Some claimed he was older than the ship, still others claimed he was the ship. But it was more complicated than that. Bob was assigned to the Roach Coach originally to keep an eye on Ted Thompson for the Rogues that were financing his operations. When Ted ran off Bob stepped up and took control of the Coach. Continuing the duties of a slaver under the Rogue banner.
I would have thought Ted knew how to take care of a Liner. But apparently he didn't. At any rate the Roach is back on the road again. Ran into a 72nd member in Baffin. On my way out of Malta the first time I ran into junker moving artifacts. After ranting at him a bit about the profitability of the Cardimine trade he did end up making a run.