Good luck making more than 1500 miles a week as a southeast regional driver. You will do a lot of sitting. Went from running 1800-2200 miles a week through the summer to struggling to break 1500 miles from about October to January. Otherwise, I lived on protection pay of 880 a week before taxes. I blame the owners, Heartland Express. Trailers can be rough but I don't blame the techs, I blame the drivers for not doing there part in reporting damage or other service issues. Size differences in trucks. If you're otr, you get a typical high rise sleeper if you're regional, you practically get half a sleeper and a pull out drawer as a fridge instead of a typical mini fridge. Fuel solution once routed me to truck stops within a regional range. Before I quit, fuel solutions would only route me to the Heartland terminal in Atlanta or the Millis terminal in Cartersville regardless if I'm only 50 miles away or 187 miles away with 2/8-3/8 of a fuel left. Forgot to mention the regional trucks have roughly half the fuel capacity as the otr trucks.