Heartland Express can’t be serious?

If you really want in with Heartland, use the “back door”. Apply to one of their other companies, only option for ID would be CFI, stay there for a little while, then transfer over. They will put you right in a truck.

 

Im not using " the back door" to get a job anywhere!

 

Sounds like my ex-wife's resume that I wish I'd seen before we were married!

 

Right. He wouldn't know all the skills needed to even hook up to a trailer, do the pre- trip correctly etc....

I think insurance wouldn't take him either, so it's not the fault of Hearland.

 

Tom-Mac Inc. in Houston Texas. Long as you can understand what Tommy (the owner) says on the phone, your quick to guess what the hell he wants when you don't understand what he wants, can settle for making maybe by now $18 an hour and think you can handle pulling a stretch float, put some holy water in the pee cup he will hire you. Probably on the spot. You'd be local though, in whatever you could afford to live in.

 

As we were discussing on another thread what does '6 months' mean?

Or,

Go up to a driver and he says 'I got 30 years, clean record'. What does that mean? Driving around a corn field in rural Eastern Illinois and some county roads? Never going by a weigh station, driving only Summer and early Fall. That's 30 years?

You say 6 months. Ok, my questions:

1) miles driven
2) areas driven
3) all interstates or by ways too?
3a) exp driving nights or only daylight?

4) what calendar months were those 6 months. Ex. April to Oct is not the same as Nov to April
5) where was this driving, rural areas or cities. Experience in NY, PA, IN Chicago or not?
5a) Major cities driven

6,) were you switching trailers and if yes how often?

'6 months' is vague.

Also, 6 months 4 years ago counts a lot less than 6 months 1 year ago.

 

He could have worded it better. Please allow me to try.

I think the issue here is 6 months of Class A experience 4 years ago (if I didn't miss anything). Insurance rules a lot in trucking, even for the self-insured megas (they self-insure up to a point). After 4 years, even with a technical Class A, any mega or major will require some type of training. I will agree that Heartland is being silly with treating you like a stark rookie. However, think of it from their end: 4 years ago you left Class A life for Class B life after only 6 months. To them, you are still brand new. That's why most companies (large or small) require certain amount of experience within THREE years (a few allow more time, some less). Honestly, the only real way you're going to go into Class A trucking again without said training is search hard for a company that'll make a decision based off of the driver's test. If you need retraining from scratch, then so be it. If not, a week or two with a trainer will get you up to speed. All in all, it does not matter that you have a Class A in this case; the matter is how long since you've used it for Class A work.

I suggest you look at other companies (mega or not) to see what they'll offer you. Refresher training is all you should accept, at most.