Brady Trucking Vernal, UT, Farmington, NM, CO and ND

Could you go into more detail about these 2?

 

BIA 14, if you search there are theads about it. It's a 12 mile dirt highway on the Indian reservation. Bumpy isn't the word for it, and when it rains hard this type of clay turns to grease. The circuses I've seen out there! Haven't seen any fists flying, though.

I ran BIA 14 a lot when I came up here last year, I thought this is just what North Dakota is. Well, it's not, BIA 14 is BIA 14. See, they want you to do it for the same mileage pay as other loads, they don't pay a premium for you to drive that distance at 15 or 20 mph with your bones jarring the whole way. And if you have to chain up, or if traffic gets backed up in each direction...

In our case, it was to be a 70 mile deadhead to Newtown, and it's backed up construction there, 58 loaded miles over BIA 14 and artillery-shell-pock-marked BIA 12, then a 100 mile deadhead back to the terminal- an all around crummy deal for drivers on percentage. Put some money on the BIA 14 loads, make me $$$want$$$ to go out there, OK then, I can do it. But, they don't. They want you to do it on the cheap. I've hardly run it at all this year.

On the second point, my experience is limited. It does, however, seem there is a lack of management and administrative talent in the oilfield. Companies have holes to fill and they don't have the pool of workers to draw from like they do lined up for jobs elsewhere around the country. Things I see, you just want to shake your head. We could do a whole thread about this topic, I'd like to hear what others have to say.

Bakken Oilfield Fail of the Day:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bakken-Oilfield-Fail-of-the-Day/292810960810561

 

We really liked the people the most. As we got used to the area we liked what there was to do. I know Brady is headquartered here. Just thought it would be interesting to hear gtom someone "in the trenches" there.

 

25% of nothing is nothing.
It all depends on the rates not the percentage and Larry Brady dosen't run cheap freight.

 

You responded to a 2 year old post.... And Brady isn't what they use to be (in the bakken at least).

 

Brady was moving into SE New Mexico around the time the price of oil stated dropping. They were cutting rates just as fast as anyone in the Permian. I have seen their trucks all the way up in Ohio recently hauling food grade or ???

 

Everybody's rates have dropped in the past 2 years thanks to OPEC. The companies that can diversify their operations are those that will survive. Sand, drilling mud, cement or flour - I would rather haul any and all rather than sit and go broke.