The Lowdown on Heartland

Heartland has a drop yard in Punta Gorda at Young trucking's yard on US41

 

I have been away from Heartland for over a year now, but I can tell you how I saw teams running when I was with them....
They were not lol.

Actually, they did have some teams, but I do not think most of the dispatchers knew how to run them properly. So they were giving them the same runs as everyone else, plus a little. So it was like super solo more than team miles, and most of the teams I met split up after a while since they made more as 2 solo drivers.

It is really kind of sad. They have some runs that would work very well for teams, but they do not seem to utilize them to their best potential.
Anyway, my conclusion is that I would probably not go with them as a team, unless something has changed with having GTI on board now. Maybe having a more 48 state freight base has helped. But otherwise you would be looking at more like 3500-3800 miles a week as a team, and that would suck.

I can give you a way to check though. If you see a red heartland truck on the road ask the driver. All the red heartland trucks are double bunk trucks. They have a few white ones, but most are red Cascadia's. The rest of the fleet is all single bunk trucks.

 

ChromeDome is correct and spot on. I started Heartland doing teams and went solo after 30 days. I have a lot of respect for HL out of Phoenix and the folks that work there. Treated me very well and with much patience.

 

Beat me to it as I was going to respond to this in the op's post. I'm local now, but if I were still OTR and had to be gone 14 days, I'd not be happy with anything under 3 days of hometime. Four would be better, though. The regular working class usually gets 2 days off per week. Why is it that OTR drivers (who are not only working, but away from home and family) only get one day off for 7 worked?

 

do they have inverters are you allowed inverters, what is the avg. pay per week ,are they forced dispatched how is there dispatch staff. What part of the state do they run the most, do they have apu's on there trucks, do they have bunk heaters what is the avg. length of haul, how do they keep there drivers cool in summer