Oilfield Job or Not: What to do?

Ha! Yeah if you don't get out right after high school you never will and your fate will be sealed sooner or later you'll end up in a trailer park. Great town to be from, not to live in!

 

I just got off the phone with my current boss, the one referring me up there, (he worked for them until recently real good friends with owner, left to do his own thing for this company in the Wy oilfield). Please tell me if anything sounds fishy.

*smaller company, 12 trucks
*$25/hour to start including $65 per day per diem, $32 possible after 90 days and passing tests. With the Hazmat I already have he said it might be possible to skip from water to something else (I forgot what kind of tanker he said) for a little better money. FR gear provided free if stay 90 days, $500 deducted from last check if less than 90 for gear and training expenses. No benefits.
*home time is 2 weeks on 2 weeks off, will almost always be asked to stay longer, can freely decline. 14 hour shifts, 14 on/14 off.
*housing is man-camp, free, "it sucks but the price is right."
*older trucks, but relatively well maintained, working on replacing with new.
*No travel reimbursement. 14 hour drive from the house each way.

Said to say the word and he'd make the call to get me up there as soon as my 2 week notice was up here.

 

No they would not be going with me, they would be staying in Utah near her sister and other assorted family. The schedule for this company would be 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. Yeah I wasn't happy about the .28/mile either but it was slightly better than the unemployment line, either way I'm out as son as I can find another job, they kept me hanging on promising to send me to the Wy oilfield, now that that is not going to happen I'll move on.

 

No overtime, $25/hour straight time. 14 and 14 is fine with me too, I'm willing to sacrifice some $$ for family time too; money is no good if you have no time or no one to spend it on.

They taught me how to do a very thorough pre-trip at the school, if it doesn't pass muster I know better than to drive it. I went and checked out a job before this one and the trucks were so bad that he didn't have one truck in his five that was safe to be on the road so I moved on and the money was better there than my current job too.

I will have to check on the daily commute distance but it is 14 hours on 14 hours off so I don't think it will be to big a deal. I worked 13.5 on 10.5 off nights for years in the Air Force and 12-14 hours a day at this job so I'm not worried about the shift length.

I'm mostly concerned about if it all sounds legit? My gut tells me its but I'll admit I don't know enough about the way it works up there to know. This company sounded good too until I started and they couldn't deliver on promises right from the beginning.

 

Thanks for the input gbz. 28 cents is done soon if I take this job or not.

My math has it at $54,600/year (7 days in a week x 24 hours / 2 shifts per day x $25 per hour x 26 weeks in half a year) gross, with no OT pay, home half the year. $81,900 if I did 3 on 1 off. I'll make $26,000 net/year at the rate I've been going @28 cents! home 5 or 6 days a month.