March 12, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Heartland Express, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: HTLD) board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend. The $0.02 per share dividend will be paid on April 6, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 25, 2010.

A total of approximately $1.8 million will be paid on the company’s 90.7 million outstanding shares of common stock.

Heartland Express implemented a quarterly cash dividend program in the third quarter of 2003. This is the company’s twenty-seventh consecutive quarterly cash dividend.

Iowa-based Heartland Express operates as a short-to-medium haul truckload carrier of general commodities in the U.S.

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