Nabors

Is that straight pay or will you get paid over time? What kind or work? Crude hauling? Water hauling? Vacuum truck, etc? Sorry for all the questions. I'm this close to pulling the trigger on loading up my truck and driving down to TX to look for work.

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You can't drive after 70 hours but you can do anything else. I wouldn't think Nabors runs outlaw.

 

15.50 is nothing. They are literally "using you".

Any type of oilfield trucking job, that's nothing.

 

Gosh....I keep hearing this. Is that the way the expr I enced guys look at it or is that dirt wages fir a rookie just the same? I am on my last otr load headed home to pack up give it all up and go big or go bust. Some say 15 an hr brought them 72 grand. Others say that's crap. Ive already done quit my job and will be headed to w texas in a few weeks. Is 15 per hour that bad with all the ot? Or are you guys just plain picky because because. ...been there,done that. Im going to put EVERYTHING and I mean everything on the line to go and make things better. Or am I just plain stupid to think that its possible? ......so confused

 

Oregon if you do the math 15.50 an hr is 650 a week for 40 hrs if they told you, you could work 70 then find out if the other 30 is paid at time in a half if so then that 15.50 comes out to 23.25x30=697.50 and if you add those 2 figures up it comes out to 1347.50 a wk multiply that by 52 weeks and you my friend are looking at 70,070 yr. I for one would be very happy with that and when I graduate CDL school in Oct I will be coming out there and applying where you work LOL.

 

I would take the job, keep looking for something better, once you get a few months in it will open more doors.

 

It's a start and its starting wages. Most pay better. Get experience then find better. And honestly I'm hauling crude and rarely make that a week and I'm at 70 hours a week too. But I work for a small cheap outfit. But at least my truck and trailer are 2013 models. Lol

 

I'm curious, what's your job title? Did you apply locally and in-person, or were you out of state and apply online?

 

$15.50 is about the norm for a rookie with a large company like Nabors. They will not tolerate over logging. Due to recent clarification of oil field exemption laws by DOT, the only way you will legally work 90 hours per week is in a vehicle that meets the DOT definition of "specialized equipment" that requires "extensive training". If that's what you want then you need to try fracking, wireline, coiled tubing or get out of the truck entirely and work on a drilling rig, pulling unit or something else.

Nabors is a good company. Spend 6 months with them and you'll be able to move on to something else.

If you're in Texas they pay time and a half after 40 hrs. That's standard out here unless you're paid by the load.