Lonestar Distribution Inc. ( LDI)

Been here for a few years, never heard of them. Whats their gig?

 

I've seen them, that is all

 

Where are you going to be working? I worked at the Midland yard for about 4 months.
When I was there last year they had old equipment. My assigned truck had 1.5 million oilfield miles on it. That being said it was slow but dependable. Old forklifts also.
We would get a load of sack goods (mainly) strap it down and take it to a drilling rig. We serviced OXY so no beards allowed. Some loads were forklift loads and some were not. If you had a forklift load you unstrapped everything, unloaded your forklift,unloaded trailer,reload forklift,roll up straps and head back to yard. Sometimes we would do a well to well. You would go empty with a forklift to a rig site that was finished drilling and move all the left over product the new drill site. I have had up to 4 truck well to wells. You count ,re-stack,plastic wrap,load fork,strap, drive a few miles unload and repeat. Most times you had a swamper unless 2 trucks went and both drivers worked together. Kind of a pain in the butt but you could make good money doing them. We also did returns which is basically the same thing but you returned product to the yard.
The pneumatic trailers were for barite or bentonite, heavy stuff so they only have 1 cone vs 3 like a sand trailer. With those loads you scale,load, rescale,drive and then blowdown into a silo at the rig site. A few returns also with those types of loads.
We got paid by the load by mileage in 10 mile increments. We also got a $25 load bonus , when I was there you had to have hazmat to get the bonus. Very little hazmat ,caustic soda,and a couple of others. Allot of starch,drilling paper,cedar fiber and the like. We also delivered,and returned ,silos using a winch truck and a float.A float is like a flatbed, ours had a steel bed with a roller across the end of the trailer. They have yards,that I know of, in Midland,Pecos, and Hobbs NM.
It was a more labor intensive job, like allot of flatbedding,than other driver jobs.
Pros: Went to work at the same time every day
4 days on 2 days off, you could work the 5th day if you had hours.
Averaged $250 to $300 per day.
Cons: OLD equipment
Drill sites were they used a little off of different pallets of the same product that you had to restack, not LDIs fault though.
OLD equipment

The reason I left was to go to another company that would give me more time off at a time. My wife is from Thailand so I like to have 2 weeks off a couple of times a year.
My last week there I made $1350 and at my new company make $1500. Here I am on call, get 24 hour resets when I don't expect them, less labor, and time off like I want to travel.
At LDI I worked harder,had 2 days off a week, a set schedule,old equipment. I made a little less but could have pushed it to the same. Time off, two weeks at a time, was what moved me to another company.