Atlanta terminal is decent. It has a good size driver break area and all the snack machines anyone could ask for, including frozen pizzas and ice cream amongst many. Better take plenty of singles if you want any of it though because the change situation sucks. They have showers there, tv and leather couches. You can idle your truck as you need to, you will not be uncomfortable. Their new trucks will have electric a/c and diesel fired heaters, so it's only a matter of time before thats full swing. They just had several pro stars already equipped a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta ready to go.
Only cons I've seen so far is fleet managers can be dicks (in attitude, not work) and they start pulling out health insurance premiums over a month before you receive them. They say 30 days prior, but they pulled mine out today and I don't get them till Sept 1.
Any truck issues have been handled wonderfully by breakdown. Couldn't ask them to do any better than what they have. No apu's, only place that is a problem is in no idle zones.
Any Info about Heartland Express??
Discussion in 'Heartland' started by EaglesWay, Jan 5, 2007.
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I had a nice 5 day hotel stay in Dallas when my truck broke down. The best part was because I was on the salary fleet I got paid no matter what. So I relaxed and took it easy. They finally just put me in another truck, a newer one, and I went back to work. Salary fleet did have its bennies.
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I never waited more than a day for a truck repair. The one time that it was going to take longer they had a driver pick me up the morning of the second day and bring me to the terminal for another truck. That was also on a salary fleet though. The Ohio and Northeast salary fleets the trucks had to earn a set amount before we could get the salary. But the amount was low enough that you could make it easy in 3-4 days. If your mileage rate was higher than the salary, then you got paid mileage. So it worked out ok.
The fleet I was on in Florida was just a dedicated fleet. Lower than regional mileage rate, which sucked, but at the beginning the miles were higher than regional, and was home every weekend. So it was ok. Less money than up north. But the rates are lower in the south, so it made since. -
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I pass thru Ocala every couple days. Running for Badcock Furniture out of Mulberry. Deliver from the DC to the stores. Home every day.
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I worked for Heartland till Feb. That is when I swapped to Badcock. Was at Heartland almost 4.5 years. If I could have gotten a little more money in FL, with the hometime I needed, I would still be with them.
For the pay question. I am on track to make about 52k for the year. Not bad for home every day. Well, almost every day, we do stay out one night every week or so. They rotate the long runs. But when we have to go to Panama City or a group of stores north of Tallahassee in FL and GA, we don't have enough hours to make it back. So we stay at a hotel those nights and come back in the morning. Hotel is paid by company and they give us 35 dollars for the night to cover food etc.
Not dream job, I work as many hours as I did OTR, and I have to help unload at stores. But I am in better shape than I have been in years.Milkman719 Thanks this.
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