Does anyone out there work for Heartland? There pay for running new england region sounds excellent. It sorta seems to good to be true though. How many miles do you get a week? How much unloading is involved? Do you get home every weekend? I would appreciate any other good or bad info anyone has about them also.

Heartland on the whole is full of lyers. Believe nothing they have to say.......I have first hand experiance on this.

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Okay, lt me state I have not worked for them, and carry them no grudges. However, I have read about them on other sites and will post the gist of what they have, coming from people that I trust enough to repeat.

Heartland does advertise good pay, especially running on the eastern half of the country. They specialize in a somewhat niche market, looking for 300 mile hauls vice the 800 mile or longer ones that many of the other comanies seek. This means that you do more loads in a week, which isn't bad in and of itself. The key to getting the required pay is in minimizing the dock time, and getting enough short loads to make up your weekly mileage.

However, they are not a driver oriented company. they will not pay detention until after 8 hours of dock time, and they expect the driver to be available during the pickup times. Then, once loaded they also expect you to have the hours available to get the load there, despite the fact that you were up during the day getting it loaded.

Their dispatcher and load planning system is set up so that they get no input from the drivers. They like to micromanage their drivers and their time, and you are viewed there as a replacable minor cog in the system. Their only open door policy is for the mens room, and they would prefer that the drivers not make use of it. It has been described as the closest you can come to having a factory job and still be in a truck.

You can get 50 cpm or more running fro them, but you will pay a very high price for that money. It is not easily earned. As a place to work, I rate them only slightly above the worst in the industry, and there is no way that I would ever recommend them to someone.

Now, there are people that like that kind of system and flourish under it. If it's something that you would like, then I wish you well. But for most people, it is not someplace I would recommend. There are many, many more better jobs out there. they kind of stay below the radar screen as a bad place, but I would rank them there.

And if they really were that great, they wouldn't have to offer that high of a pay.

They sure as hell couldn't get me to work there under those conditons.

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Once upon a time, they were a good company. But I hear nothing good anymore, I researched em too during my job hunt.

Another thing I hear is they like HEAVY loads, and that while the mileage pay is high, you get very few other perks such as layover, detention pay etc.

Any time you sign up for a company, you take your chances. It may or may not be a good fit for you. I probably would take my chances somewhere else if I were you.

Does Heartland Express hire recent CDL drivers, as in just graduated from CDL school?

Thanks

I did. They said call back after you have been driving a year. From what I have heard and read about them they ain't any better than any other place.

True but the Salary base weekly pay is nice.

IM trying to get information about heartland express. Is pay worth it?
All in all most compaines are the same far as the job goes.Just looking for
details from drivers instead of a recuriter that promises you the world.

I have a friend who works for Hartland, pay is fine...
this is what I don't like about the company
They tell you when to shut down
Example: He was in mass last week and was told he had to shut down because there was snow in the area. he called them up and told them there was no snow where he was at, they said that's their policy and he had to shut down even if it was not snowing where he was at.
So if the weather is bad near you then you have no choice but to shut down.

Fuel, they send you a fuel plan, you have to follow it to the"T", another words they tell you to get 80 gallons then you have to get 80 gallons. If you get more they will charge you for it.

And keep in mind there are sometimes 2-3 fuel stops on a 600 mile route sometimes.

If you can deal with that (he does) then you can make some decent money with Hartland.