Heartland Express is doing good

I, myself, love it. Thank you

 

I hit 3 years in October.
They finally start to give anniversary gifts at 3 years lol. I think it is a bag or something. Then a jacket at 5 years. Nothing till then or in the middle.
Heck, you cannot even get a heartland hat unless you are driver of the month, year, or get 1 mill+ miles with them.
No heartland gear is sold. Period.
The old owner made that rule years ago, after seeing shirts and other things for company's in used clothing shops. Kind of an odd rule if you ask me, even with that.
And they only did the time with the company for very long term people. If they did all with more than even 2 years the list would have been too long to post.

 

Can anybody tell me who is the terminal manager for Carlisle and the names of some of the dispatch people? Does Doug still work there? Does Bernadette still work there?
Thanks

 

They are too cheap to buy cab curtains too so you'll have to hang your dirty underwear up where the curtains should be if you want some privacy.

 

Congratulations Chrome on your 3 year milestone..!
Glad things are still working for you, and this thread by Truthin is still going.
I can't find the driver's blog wanting to hear from former Heartland drivers.
I left in June of this year for a better job that came through for me after I started with Heartland.
I hired out of Iowa City (corporate) which from what I'm reading things aren't followed as intended, through the system, for new drivers as they do there.
My short stay was good always roll'n with a load, saw better pay then my previous gig.
Home time was a problem which I didn't make a stand on, but the driver who hired out at the time I did, called me today and was leaving for the same reason.
He did 7 weeks out there and got 40 miles within his hometown and had to keep going for delivery.
Promised that home time was after the next load, that didn't happen, he had enough.
I did 5 weeks before I got home, and that was only for 26 hours, didn't make a 34 hour restart.
The information the Truthin & Chrome Dome provide here works for them, but you can't look to think that you'll get the same as a new driver.
You got to pay some dues first.
My other dislike was, I had to take my rest break at shippers or receivers. where there was no bathrooms.
You can prepare for a "once and while" situation like that.
But it was becoming a regular thing, and if you had to make a "library visit" the woods wasn't my option if you know what I mean..? LOL
So there you have it I left in June, the driver I hired out with left today October.
Lest then a year with Heartland, we both have over 25 years of driving experience.

 

Actually, you're better off w/out one of their curtains that come with their trucks. Their curtains are made out of some horrible synthetic fabric that off-gasses alot and smells terrible. It gave me bad headaches until I folded it up and put it in some thick plastic bags and tied it up and put it in a drawer. This took up a lot of valuable space. That's why you're better off w/out their curtains. You'd be better off w/ an old rotten dirty carpet hanging up. Most other trucks have some sort of synthetic leather. Now that's nice. That's fine, but Heartland must give you the cheapest, POS nasty fabric available. I think it actually is the same fabric as carpets, and sprayed heavily with flame-retardant, non-stain, nasty chemical crap no one has any business being near. But that's not Heartland's worst health hazard. That POS peoplenet has a powerful microwave transmitter right under the driver's bed. That's why so many of their drivers have huge puss filled cysts hanging off their neck, and come down w/ cancer & other diseases. Is that worth the money? Well, even if they didn't have that, the way they run their drivers is uniquely bad. Making them sleep at shippers regularly, some of which close & have no bathrooms open, messing w/ your logs just to punish you, making you sleep in the day & not letting you use A/C over & over, way too much NE. Then you have to deal w/ the night-shift staff, & dn't forget having to call in several times a day. No, not worth it, NOT WORTH IT. They will insist you do overweight sugar loads, and their terminal in FL, you'll have to p/u their sugar loads and drive it about 80 miles out of the way to scale it, before you actually start driving some payed miles. You will be sent to FL regularly. Then there's waiting at the shipper. You might get paid $15 or something the first or 2nd time, but after that, you won't get paid to sit & you'll set for hours unpaid, at the shipper. Look in their manual. They don't have to pay their driver for waiting, & for many drivers, they won't. They don't send their drivers home when they want to get home, and when you're ready to get home, you will always end up having to drive an hour unpaid, to get home. They have plenty of stores they deliver to that are near your home, but they never send you a load near your home when it's hometime, cause they don't want you to take your hometime. Then you have to wait in line every time you go to a terminal, and they always route you to a terminal for nearly every load, even when it's not needed. Sometimes you wait in line for hours. You cannot take a shower & chill in the break room when waiting in line. You have to idle in your truck in the heat, but they won't let you idle in line, so you're stuck there. Then you have to wash their trailers for free too, mandatory, every time you visit a terminal. Now Heartland Express is a short-to-medium haul carrier. That means lots of terminal trips, more unpaid time, less driving time, more time in cities. Sound worth it?

 

No hometime as promised. They don't care about their drivers. Thieves liers and crooks steer the opposite direction and run. Everboddy is quoting and leaving.