Heartland Express can’t be serious?

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  1. Saltyoldone

    Saltyoldone Light Load Member

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    I’ve had my class A CDL for almost 5 years but I’ve been driving class B for the last 4.

    Heartland Express wants me to take their CDL course to drive for them. That’s 2 week classroom, 2 weeks skills, and then 15,000 miles with a trainer. Then you have to indenture yourself to their company for 1 year or you pay back the school.
    I ALREADY HAVE MY CDL!

    The recruiter told me that 80% of the class has their CDL’s and they all claim to have learned something. All that tells me is the class is full of people who are to stupid to read the contract and learned they are now Heartlands property.

    I told the recruiter that my first trainer falsified his HOS logs, and my second trainer yelled consistently for the two weeks before I got my own truck. And because of that I’d want it in writing that I could record the trainer and if my trainer falsified records, belittled or yelled at me I’d be cleared of having to do the rest of the remaining 15,000 miles.

    She hung up on me. I guess I wasn’t gullible enough for them.

    I’m sorry but if you force people with their CDLs to retake the entire CDL class so you can indenture those drivers for 1 year so that your company’s retention numbers are high. That’s not a company for me.
     
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  3. Thrasher28

    Thrasher28 Road Train Member

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    Not a great company to drive for IMO. They were the first company I worked for OTR and I only made it a couple months. Lots of 300 mile runs, equipment spec'd as base model as possible, PeopleNet sucks, relays constantly, and their (low) guaranteed pay only lasted for 10 weeks. I think I averaged 2000 miles a week for the couple of months I was there

    The benefits there were only manual trucks, no cameras facing inward or outward, and it was lots of drop and hooks and easy store deliveries. Lots of terminals in convenient locations was nice as well. I'm sure most of that has changed now that they're rapidly growing and moving more towards a training company. They must've gotten stricter since they hired me on without any bit of training with only local experience at 21 years old lol.

    Probably best you avoided them.
     
  4. lual

    lual Road Train Member

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    Some call it, "HeartLESS Express"....

    -- L
     
  5. haz-matguru

    haz-matguru Road Train Member

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    Why even go there? There are several of the trashy mega otr companies out here that consider anything but otr work to be null and void. Just because you drove in a class B setting doesn't mean that you don't know how to drive a class A truck.

    Find a more decent carrier and apply there. Places like Heartless aren't worth working at.
     
  6. lester

    lester Midwest's #1 Feed Hauler

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    You only have 1 (one) CDL. It's not plural, CDLs
     
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  7. DRTDEVL

    DRTDEVL Road Train Member

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    Hate to break it to you, but Class B experience has no bearing on a Class A position. He would need to find a company that can take him on without Class A experience.
     
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  8. REO6205

    REO6205 Road Train Member

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    He already has a Class A CDL. He's been driving at a Class B level. His CDL A is still valid. I deleted your ad for Case.
     
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  9. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    Location and MVR record so @Chinatown can help you by suggesting companies .


    Is your class B experience with trailers ?
    Or with streight trucks ?
     
  10. Bumper

    Bumper Road Train Member

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    I agree with you on this point. No way does spending the last four years driving around in basically a U Haul truck give you any experience for a OTR truck and trailer.
     
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  11. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    The cheapest thing to do , at least in my state would be to take the CDL class at the state vo tech community college,
    It’s $1,700 and is a great class . 300 hours.

    I’ve heard some Some states charge a lot more
     
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