Any word on heartland Express?

You live in a decent area for them.

 

If your young, single and don't mind being bullshi**ed and kept under 2000 miles and never getting home.I say go for it.lol

 

hey chris22 do you have any flatbed exp. ? If so i know of a company looking for drivers

 

my only thought, they train some of their drivers to be driver/recruiters, and then when someone comes to apply the call the driver/recruiter a liar and that he/she doesn't know what they are talking about.

 

A friend of mine works for heartland he runs regional and gets a salary pay of $800+ every week. Tight runs though have to be on time or big problems

 

just a "search" away if you had taken the time as I did for you
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...7975-heartland-express-inc-coralville-ia.html
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ot-the-411-a.html?highlight=heartland+express
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...1-heartland-is-heartless-and-anti-family.html

there are 3 out a many! use Search just below the top right corner of the screen in the menu bar!

 

I have been at heartland for a month now.
I have talked to many drivers in different terminals.
It looks like the majority of there freight is in the North East and Mid West. So for drivers that live in those areas home time and miles are not a problem.
I do however run into allot of drivers from Southern Terminals in the North East, and they complain about home time and getting stuck up North.
So I think what terminal drivers are out of and where they live has a huge impact on there miles and hometime.
I live in the North East, and getting home is no problem at all. Also my miles are not too bad, about what they told me they would be. 2200 a week is probably around my average, and home every weekend.
I am out of Columbus OH. And the fleet average there is 2200, so I am average.
So far they have been honest with me, but I went in with my eyes open and with most of my information in hand.

Only big complaint I have is the inspection bays. The worst I have seen is in Chester VA. They have 2 bays open all day, and one guy working both of them. From open to close there is a line several hours long.

 

I saw on their website where they pay $775/week salary w/o Hazmat for regional runs and it is available through their Atlanta terminal, which would be good for me. I don't know the specifics but I'd definitely like to look into it after I get my 1 year OTR.

 

Most of the salary regional positions have been removed with the economy.
The drivers have been swapped to regional or system.
I am still getting ok miles most weeks around 2500 and home for the weekend. They have been lowering the driver numbers still to try and match freight volume. Mostly by not hiring as many as they loose.
This last week it bit them in the rear. Many drivers took time off for the Holidays and they had allot more freight than they had drivers to move it.
Miles are up, freight is up due to less trucks and drivers.

They have 200+ new tractors that were waiting till this week to get tags, then they will be ramping up trades again, and probably hiring a little (but with first quarter always slow will not be allot).
Average age of trucks in the fleet is 1.5 years. They have purchased 2100 prostars years 2009-2010. That will be the full fleet for now, 1.5 years ago the fleet was 2900 trucks.
They are still a 0 debt company, all these trucks are paid for not leased.
I think with the way they have terminals gridded, low/ no debt, and trying to match fleet size with freight that they are set up well for this year.
Remember, this is not a full OTR company, they are short to medium haul. Even system drivers are supposed to be home 2 weekends a month. Though that is not happening as much lately due to freight.
I will keep on trucking and ride it out and see what this new year brings.