Heartland MW Regional vs Shaffer Dedicated
 

Going back on the road after driving local for a bit. Spoke w/both companies and heres what they said. Heartland reg: avg 2200mpw at .415cpm home 3 out of 4 weekends out 14 days once a month. Shaffer dedicated avg 2500mpw at .38cpm home 1.5days per week. Please advise any experience w/either company which one is most realistic for hometime and pay

Had a friend just leave Heartland, he was told he woud get 2200 mpw but he didn't even get close to that. He worked there for two months and was only getting about 1500 mpw.

That's about normal if you're going home for 3 or 4 days a week.

In the mid 90's I worked for Heartland Regional out of Columbus Oh. I only averaged about 1800 miles a week. Lots of shorthaul Sears fingerprint loads and fingerprint mattress loads. I was told Carlyle and Dubois Pa was as far east as i would have to go. I was in south Philly or Elizabeth NJ every week. The recruiters and the dispatchers don't live in the same universe. My career with them was very short.

Maybe a silly question from an old timer, but how the heck do you average only 2200 mpw and stay out 3/4 weeks at a time pulling a dry box for a company that advertises high% drop and hook and no touch ?? Something don't add up but must get real familiar with the truckstop queens

Heartland MW REg vs Shaffer Dedeicated
 

Trinitron, it would not be 3-4 weeks out. It would actually be home 3 out of 4 weekends and "once a month" i would go out 14 days because I live on the extreme northern part of their hiring territory for MW regional and they can't guarantee home every weekend on this board.

Originally Posted by trinitron:
Maybe a silly question from an old timer, but how the heck do you average only 2200 mpw and stay out 3/4 weeks at a time pulling a dry box for a company that advertises high% drop and hook and no touch ?? Something don't add up but must get real familiar with the truckstop queens

Well While working at werner the average Solo driver was only getting 1800-2200 weekly mile average due to many Live load/un-loads tied to 150-250 mile trips ,and many times nothing for the weekend at Werner it's not uncommon to hunt down an empty then deadhead 50 miles to a shipper then sit for a few hours then after getting loaded if you have a big mile trip either hand it off to a team 100 miles or less down the road or split it at a drop yard or terminal ,so it can be given either to a team at a later date or given to the NET OPS day cab operation to be relayed across the interstate until the last few miles remain then it is split at a drop yard ,and the driver with the sleeper on his truck gets to shag it over to a dock and sit for a few hours unloading my first FM told me with all the government funding for training students ,and Werner having a dealers license and only paying 53k for a brand new pete,KW,freightliner and selling them for 10-20k more than what was paid for them plus their generous fuel discounts from pre paid fuel by millions of gallons in advance that werner only need 1800 miles per unit to start to see a profit plus ,and that's just trucking profit ,and doesn't account for truck sales which is all profit when you sell a truck for 10-20k more than you paid for it ,and all the money given to you for training new students ,which is constant income with the constant turn over ...Now at Werner 1800-2200 miles was pretty poor at .26-.30 CPM , 2200 at .50 CPM is 1100wk that's decent money ...Now I know Werner is not Heartland ,But they are a big company ,So it's not a stretch of the immagination for me to see them only getting 1800-2200 miles a week per solo unit .

If you do a search you hear alot of the same sad stories about Heartland.
If you hear or see something once then not a big deal but if you see the same thing over and over again, that should be a HUGE warning sign.

You do see alot of very positive posts on Crete/Shaffer etc.

If I personally was going to roll the dice with someone, I think that Crete would be a better bet.

BOL

Originally Posted by wild bill:
Had a friend just leave Heartland, he was told he woud get 2200 mpw but he didn't even get close to that. He worked there for two months and was only getting about 1500 mpw.

I'll never feel sorry for anyone who quits a job after only 2 months. That type of person has no reason to complain about anybody or anything. They just need to take a good, long look in the mirror to see where the problem is.

Originally Posted by kips41:
If you do a search you hear alot of the same sad stories about Heartland.
If you hear or see something once then not a big deal but if you see the same thing over and over again, that should be a HUGE warning sign.

You do see alot of very positive posts on Crete/Shaffer etc.

If I personally was going to roll the dice with someone, I think that Crete would be a better bet.

BOL

I've worked now for Shaffer for almost 3 years-- and I agree-- if you're just "rolling the dice" definately go Shaffer.

But, what I really want to know is Where is this MW Regional Shaffer Fleet-- never knew we had one.
We got a Wal-Mart Dedicated out of Bentonville, Ar---

Where do you live?