Oilfield Job or Not: What to do?

So I was hired on out of driving school (License since beginning of July) to a small OTR outfit out of Utah in early August that also had a couple of trucks in the Wy oilfield to haul water, the oilfield fell through. The company at first said the trailer they had lined up for me had been sold out from under them (I believe it) and sent me out OTR until they could line up another trailer. After two to three weeks of OTR it the guy running the oil field side said the company they contracted on with wouldn't let me drive for them for lack of experience that I would have to do OTR for a while. Sucks but at least its not the unemployment line.

My friend that got me the job talked to the manager at the contracting company when I was set to do a 34 hour reset in Cheyenne to see if I could ride along for the day and check it out. The managers first question was how much experience I had and which he replied honestly; to which the manager said "not going to happen." went on to say that otr experience is not the kind of experience they are looking for anyways and that if this is what I wanted to do I needed to find another way in. Neither of the managers at my current company know of this conversation or that I know this.

A couple days ago when I was getting ready to head out on a run the oil side manager pulled me aside and quietly said that if I wanted he could call his old boss in the ND oilfield and get me on up there, that it wouldn't be an issue to walk onto a job there. I'm originally from NH so not unfamiliar with cold, I was also stationed in Cheyenne Wy for a while so wind is not new either but not in ND extremes of cold and windy. I've already bought all the FR gear got the boots helmet safety glasses etc etc although none of it is cold weather FR stuff as it was supposed to be Wy in August.
I really don't want to do OTR. My wife is being supportive of the away time as it is supposed to be only a temporary situation.

So my options are to
1. Keep on doing what I'm doing for .28 cents a mile. home 5 or 6 days a month, craptastic benefits. I have a wife and toddler at home so home time is important to me.
2. Take him up on his offer and head to ND this time of year for a yet to be determined wage or work schedule. (wy was supposed to be $18.50/hr, 2 weeks on 2 weeks off, would like that kind of schedule or some sort of a 50/50 schedule, if that is possible)
3. Bail on this company and take an offer of 34-37 cent/mile better benefits OTR, also out of my current town.
4. You can do better, find something else.

I'm leaning towards taking him up on it but would like some feedback on all of this; am I missing something? Dreaming? An idiot? anything! before I make a decision.

I'm currently sitting at a truck stop in Nebraska with an expired trailer registration that I told them multiple times about and got an "ok ok we'll fax it to you when its ready" well its in process but it expired last night and the boss is out elk hunting, left the oilfield side manager to handle everything while delivering water! Not only is the registration expired but it has the wrong license plate on it, a license plate they have no record of! I've been making phone calls all morning trying to fix this mess and get back on the road but after talking to Ut DMV to get a temp registration (nope) and Nebraska to maybe get a permit to carry on expired (no you can not), and talking to the Port Of Entry in Utah to see what could be done the Port Officer said it would be a $40 ticket, that it wouldn't be that big a deal one day expired but that they would probably give me a level 1 inspection if I caught someone on a bad day... I told the manager when he said it was my call that "I'm walking to Cabelas a 1/4 mile down the road and soaking up some free WiFi at the truck stop, call me when its figured out." So plenty of time to ponder my options, and enjoy Cabelas.

**Edit** I'm 30, no tickets or accidents, don't drink often or more than a couple when I do, drug free, no criminal record. I have only one day of tanker experience (helped out a friend) and 20ish thousand miles OTR reefer. Tanker, Doubles/Triples, Hazmat endorsements.

 

Thanks Arky.

I believe they meant well when they hired me, they are just to small to pull the strings with the contacting company, I could be wrong but I doubt it at least for the oil side manager who hired me, the owner I have talked to for maybe 5 minutes in 2 months so I don't know about him.

I don't want to do OTR, never did. So I'm thinking
1. Oil field
2. something local (thanks for the tips Damian) LTL Sounds pretty good, or dump truckin, or equipment hauling or whatever local.
3. the other OTR job
4. stay where I'm at.

My 5 year plan is to get into doing something I love doing, get some experience then my own truck and make myself money instead of someone else, the quickest/best way I see that happening in my mind is the oilfield (but I haven't been yet so any guidance would be welcomed there too.) Head to Nd for the winter then try to get on back in the Wy field next spring or summer with some experience do that for a while and buy my own truck and contract on with someone, myself and another driver and go from there, maybe a second truck by the end of the 5 years. Doable?

 

HA! Thanks Skate-Board. Its not so much help getting a job I'm looking for as advice on what to do; although the hook up that the current manager is offering is certainly appreciated. If I do decide on ND and this company turns out to not be what I'm looking for I may just drive up and knock on some doors before the weather gets to cold to sleep in a car.

 

Hinsdale NH, south west of Keene. Sure miss it there this time of year; except the tourists! lol