Hey folks, to all of you out there curious about oil field jobs from the perspective of a Schneider driver that actually works in the field, here's the REAL scoop on how it works. I will do my best to answer all questions.
I drive a truck with a pneumatic trailer that delivers sand to a second party company called Schlumberger. The trucker lingo for sand pneumatic trailers is "sand can". We go to various sites throughout Ohio, West Virginia and PA even though we are mostly focused on WV lately. Our home terminal is based in Coraopolis, PA, pronounced Corey-opolis. We have sleeper trucks and daycabs. The pump is located on the back of the trucks. Our trailers are Polar trailers. All brand new equipment.
The pay is salary. $1100/wk gross. We get paid no matter what happens in the oil field, so if we are down for 2-3 days waiting to be called out, we still get paid. Every week we get paid for 5 days no matter what, but, if within that week we work an extra day on top of the 5 days we have already worked we will get an extra days pay which comes out to 1/5th of our weekly salary.
We are home everyday. We run all legal logs. No electronic logs yet, but it will change soon. The only exemption we utilize in the oil fields is that we have a 24 hr reset instead of the 34 for OTR drivers.
Well sites can be anywhere from 1-3 hrs drive from home terminal. The one thing you will need to get used to in this industry is the wait time. For most OTR drivers, it will take a couple weeks to get accustomed to.
-CZ
Schneider Oil Field Jobs Marcellus Shale (From Someone Who Actually Works There)
Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by CryloZeus, Jul 9, 2012.
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I have an email for Schneider, and am working dozens of (potential) leads, SNI is an excellent carrier overall but any operation no matter how good or bad or even neutral will get the bad remarks even if they dont get the good ones.....duh,...
Okay, so your sidebar says WannaBe wit four posts - I will send you the link for FFE which is right at the level of SNI but definitely ahead on the recruiter portion of the front-end ~ with FFE it is 21/3 so if you are looking for hometime maybe SNI at -{ hey, gostwriter => snag this!!... }- maybe the Victoria account for SNI might be the place for you
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