The Heyl Truck Lines Experience

Do they have such a thing as "Western Region" have been considering applying but don't have any interest going east of Sioux Falls, would like Western US & Canada, do you haul much dry Freight

 

I don't know anything about the western operation. I actually never went that way until this trip. I am headed for Seattle. If I see any western drivers, I will ask them. Good luck. Its a great company!

 

There is no western regional drivers and majority of the freight is refrigerated.

 

I had pretty busy couple of months. I finished the month of May just shy of 14000 miles. After home time I had a real busy week and put on almost 4300 miles in 8 days. Went back home and moved from Portland, OR to Des Moines, IA. Heyl allowed me to take as much time as a needed to move and another Heyl driver drove my truck from Portland to Akron yard while I was making my move.#

After I was done with that I setup a return date and was offered to move in into a 2010 Volvo with paperless logs, which I did. The last driver of this truck was, there is no nice way go say it, a pig. Truck was dirty and REEKED like cigarettes. Most of the door locks and cabinets were broken, but shop fixed them for me. So far I like it better than the Cascadia that I had. Much smoother ride an a Cummings motor is much better than the Detroit one.

Paperless logs are a piece of cake. I previously used Quallcomm and the PeopleNet system that we use is pretty similar.#

 

xitman, while in Portland where did you park your truck for home time? or did you take it home

 

I parked it at Jubitz at the paid lot, it was 10 bucks per 24 hours. I tried leaving it on their regular lot, but they will flag your truck if you not in it and might tow it. I really didn't want to give them my money, but it really is the only place to park in Portland.

 

I found out what happens when you go over on your elogs, NOTHING! I had time to get the the Jubitz, but hit a lot of traffic in the middle of the day in Portland, by the time I got through it, I was 22 minutes over my 11 hrs. I called my DM in the morning expecting to get chewed out, but she said don't worry about it, as long as I don't go over by hours I will be ok, hmmmmm....so what is the purpose of them again?
Last time I wrote I was in Sioux Falls, had to stay overnight, but the leak is finally fixed! Stayed on the same load going north of Calgary. I will never understand the Canadian highway system. Trans-canada 1 is the longest in Canada, and longer than 80 or 40, it is a limited access highway in the small towns, but once you get into the cities it turns into some parts with exit ramps and some parts with lights. My next load, of course had to wait to the next day, and it was a horrible load. They gave me 5 days to do 1200 miles to California, I called to see why that was and see if they could change it, my DM said she would see, which usually means no. When I got back to my truck I had a message saying I could stop in Salt Lake City to spend time with family. They said it, ok, even though it was 120 longer than going another way. So the load was actually good, got to go down to the national parks in southern Utah, wow, Utah is a beautiful state. I also got to visit my grandmothers grave. WOW, talk about being barried in the middle of no where, the town is not even on the map, all the town is, is a cemetary. Anyways. After delivering in California I picked up a load in the same town a few hours later. Took the load up to Kent, Wa. From there I was deadheaded to just west of Stanfield, Or picking up going to Mason City, Ia. Even though it was slightly shorter to go back up to 90 I went down to 80 to spend more time with the family in Ogden this time. Since my divorce I have spent about 6 days in the last 2 months in Salt Lake City area. That is about the same amount of time I spent with the ex when I lived in Texas when they could get home as often as I could. I thought I would have to leave Heyl because they dont have freight going to SLC, just a lot going through, been very happy with how much time I have spent at home. My miles got hit a bit, but still got to spend time with the family.
Spending the night of the 4th of July in Williams, Ia, all of these Broadway J's are pieces of crap! One month to go until I am off for 8 days to go on my cruise to Alaska, whew, been looking forward for this for awhile now.

 

We do have plenty of drivers that all they do is go from Washington or Oregon and take it to Sioux Falls or Akron, drop it there and get a load right back there. Sorta like what Xitman said, it isn't like your typical big company western region. You can be on where all you do is go from the northwest to South Dakota or Iowa, occasionally go to California, or maybe Texas. But they will always get you the freight going back west. The last 2 months I asked to be sent to the northwest when I could, but now they sent me to much and I want to see the rest of the country again. Heyl is a good place if you live in the northwest, like Portland, Seattle or Spokane.

 

Wow, that sounds right up my alley, what's the starting pay at Heyl?

 

Everyone starts at 0.35 per mile and then 1 cent increse every year until 0.38 cents I think. You also get a sign on bonus, fuel bonus, safety bonus and over 28k miles bonus. There is also a recruitment bonus if someone you refer get hired.