Averitt or Heartland Express

Only one way for you to go,"UP"

 

if your working for swift both of these will be better,but you should go with averitt hands down,I worked for them , good company, but you will have to run some at night,they dont tell you that,they keep you sitting around all day to make sure they cover all the freight with there ltl trucks, if they cannot they use truckload, I am assuming you are looking at truckload.if you are in the atlanta area look at truck service out of forest city nc, they have a dropyard in lawrenceville get you home on the weekend, rita is the hr person,800-968-8552, call her. no miles at heartland, heard too many bad things, davis express out of stark fl has a yard in lawrenceville also I think they are ok. good luck

 

Averitt hands down. Not even close. It may take you a while, depending on what opens up in your area, but you can eventually move out of truckload. I am on dedicated Mercedes Benz account and I have no complaints at all.
I spent three years in truckload and never missed a weekend. Sometimes they may have been a little short for my liking, but they always kept that promise.

 

Heartland Express!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well......
Heartland will get you home most weekends if on regional. But you probably will not make any more money at the end of the week.
They will tell you straight out that the average is around 2200 miles per week. A little more if you go system. But system drivers are out 2-3 weeks, and then home for a weekend.
Pay for regional is .04 cpm less than system. All drivers get .04 cpm extra in the Northeast.

So pay wise they are best if you do not mind staying out 2 weeks at a time and going system. I believe the lowest starting rate for that is like .42 cpm. Plus .01 if you have hazmat and another .01 for the safety bonus at the end of the year.
So it is very possible to make .44 cpm with one year experience with them.
Just do not expect to get more than 2500 miles a week very often.

I do not know anything about Averitt. So I cannot help you there.

 

i think Heartland requires two years of OTR, but i may be wrong about that.

 

One year minimum.
Not sure if they will let drivers with 1 year do system though. They may keep them regional. I never had any reason to ask.
I do remember one driver at a terminal saying he did not have the experience they wanted for system though.
I drive for heartland currently btw.

 

You stay out 3 weeks with heartland and just get one weekend off.