|
Number
of Shares
|
5)
|
Sole
Voting Power
|
4,456,888
|
(1)
|
||
|
Beneficially
Owned by
|
6)
|
Shared
Voting Power
|
16,660
|
|||
|
Each
Reporting
|
7)
|
Sole
Dispositive Power
|
1,757,938
|
(2)
|
||
|
Person
with
|
8)
|
Shared
Dispositive Power
|
16,660
|
|
11)
|
Percent
of Class Represented by Amount in Row (9): 4.9% of
90,688,621 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of December 31, 2009.
(3)
|
|
(1)
|
Mr.
Crouse owns 47,565 shares personally and directly. Mr. Crouse
has voting and dispositive power with respect to 1,710,373 shares held by
a trust established by Russell A. Gerdin and his wife of which Mr. Crouse
serves as trustee. Mr. Crouse has voting, but not dispositive,
power over an additional 2,698,950 shares held by voting trusts
established by Mr. Gerdin and his wife and of which Mr. Crouse serves as
voting trustee.
|
|
(2)
|
Comprised
of 47,565 shares owned by Mr. Crouse personally and directly, and
1,710,373 shares held by a trust established by Russell A. Gerdin and his
wife of which Mr. Crouse serves as trustee and has voting and dispositive
power.
|
|
(3)
|
Based
on 90,688,621 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of December 31,
2009.
|
|
SCHEDULE
13 G
|
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|
Item
1
|
|||||
|
a.
|
Name
of Issuer:
|
Heartland
Express, Inc.
|
|||
|
b.
|
Address
of Issuer’s Principal
|
||||
|
Executive
Offices:
|
901
North Kansas Avenue
|
||||
|
North
Liberty, IA 52317
|
|||||
|
Item
2
|
|||||
|
a.
|
Name
of Person Filing:
|
Lawrence
D. Crouse
|
|||
|
b.
|
Address
of Principal Business
|
||||
|
Office:
|
P.O.
Box 480
|
||||
|
Burke,
SD 57523
|
|||||
|
c.
|
Citizenship
|
United
States of America
|
|||
|
d.
|
Title
of Class of Securities:
|
Common
Stock, par value
|
|||
|
$0.01
per share
|
|||||
|
e.
|
CUSIP
Number:
|
42234
10 4
|
|||
|
a.
|
Amount
beneficially owned:
|
4,473,548
|
|||
|
b.
|
Percent
of Class:
|
4.9%
|
(1)
|
||
|
c.
|
Number
of Shares as to which the person has:
|
||||
|
(i) Sole
power to vote or to direct the vote
|
4,456,888
|
(2)
|
|||
|
(ii) Shared
power to vote or to direct vote
|
16,660
|
(3)
|
|||
|
(iii) Sole
power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
|
1,757,938
|
(4)
|
|||
|
(iv) Shared
power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
|
16,660
|
(3)
|
|
(1)
|
Based
on 90,688,621 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of December 31,
2009.
|
|
(2)
|
Mr.
Crouse owns 47,565 shares personally and directly. Mr. Crouse
has voting and dispositive power with respect to 1,710,373 shares held by
a trust established by Russell A. Gerdin and his wife of which Mr. Crouse
serves as trustee. Mr. Crouse has voting, but not dispositive,
power over an additional 2,698,950 shares held by voting trusts
established by Mr. Gerdin and his wife and of which Mr. Crouse serves as
voting trustee.
|
|
(3)
|
Mr.
Crouse serves as one of the trustees for shares held by trusts for the
benefit of the grandchildren of Russell and Ann Gerdin. Mr.
Crouse shares voting and dispositive power with the other
trustee.
|
|
(4)
|
Comprised
of 47,565 shares owned by Mr. Crouse personally and directly, and
1,710,373 shares held by a trust established by Russell A. Gerdin and his
wife of which Mr. Crouse serves as trustee and has voting and dispositive
power.
|
|
Item
5.
|
Ownership
of Five Percent of Less of a Class.
|
[x]
|
|
Item
6.
|
Ownership
of More that Five Percent on Behalf of Another Person.
|
N/A
|
|
Item
7.
|
Identification
and Classification of the Subsidiary Which Acquired the
Security Being Reported on By the Parent Holding Company.
|
N/A
|
|
Item
8.
|
Identification
and Classification of Members of the Group
|
N/A
|
|
Item
9.
|
Notice
of Dissolution of Group
|
N/A
|
|
Item
10.
|
Certification.
|
N/A
|