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.

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Hmmmm, good info.

I remember I talked to a manager in a yd 3 or so years ago for info. Only had to ask 1 question. I will only drive a Condo, do solos get Condo's? He said, "No, solos get the Flat-tops, Teams only get the Condo's."

I turned around and left.

My school really talked up heartland. I am glad to see your post onn what they are really about. No heartland for me.

I don't remember Heartland taking students. Seems like you had to have OTR exp. to get on with them.

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Well, if the first poster is right, and I have no reason to think otherwise as of yet, then it's no wonder they have to take students. No experienced driver worth his salt will put up with that crap. I certainly wouldn't.

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