Jobs in ND Oil Patch

Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by 8x8, Aug 21, 2009.

  1. GetZapt

    GetZapt Bobtail Member

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    I am working with Key and there is allot of driving and sitting. It is not like you can't jump in the truck to warm up quickly while watching hoses at 3am. This is about as lazy as it gets with trucking ( for the money ) I mean hell you have to do something for that 90k and it is usually just dealing with the elements more than work, hell any outdoors man should be able to handle it, maybe not the couch potato. Winch Trucking is easy and you are outside the truck less than a water or oil truck. Super vac trucks pay huge up to 40.00n hr but will get nasty and dirty.

    Might have to chain up if location requires it. I didn't chain up once last year, But I didn't get stuck, If you get stuck with your chains on the rack you might get #### for it. Digging yourself out of the mud???? Winch trucks pull you out. Some have chained up in the mud. Getting stuck on location or on road not an issue . Getting stuck and off the road might be. They are not giving the money away but there is nothing easier for this kind of money in this economy for sure. If you can't handle the elements then forget it, that's the JOB in my opinion.

    That Power Fuels guy above must be a recruiter cause I talk to Power Fuels drivers crying all the time about money. All companies have pros and cons that must be weighed out. Especially housing, cause more per hour don't mean as much when it is sucked back up in housing cost or low pay when it is slow. Key has a guaranteed 60 hr pay week so when Power Fuels is slow and crying we are going home after 3 hr s and getting paid 12. Come summer everyone want's to go to Power Fuels for the higher pay.
     
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  3. MP3 > CB

    MP3 > CB Medium Load Member

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    Thanks, that's a good reply, that's what I'm talking about. It's one thing to be on duty for 12 hours spending most of it in a heated cab. It's another thing to do a lot of physical labor in the freezing cold, take an eight or ten hour break and then come back and do it again. That'll wear you out.

    How do oil trucks pump or air off? Does the equipment run off the truck's PTO or do you use pumps/air at the facility?

    I'm kind of shocked about the winch truck. I thought that was out there handling steel and chains. Is that essentially a flatbed where you secure everything down with binders?

    Oh yeah, sleep schedules. Can you work all days or all nights, or is a combination of both, and is it ever long shifts like 20 hours, or whatever? I'm not trying to sound like a whiner but sleeping in foxholes, securing steel in the winter, pulling into a loading rack at 2am...I've been uncomfortable enough in my time to at least get into these situations (or not) with my eyes wide open.
     
  4. PureEvil

    PureEvil Light Load Member

    I would have to say Hauling sand, side dump or belly.... You pull up and some guy fills your truck with sand, you weigh and get a ticket, then you driver to a location and just dump where the guy points and go on your way. Other then chaining up or getting fuel you should prolly never have to leave the truck.

    I think this is the type of job your talking about.

    As far as hours go.... the sites run 24/7, but if you have the xp to back you up then you can probably negotiate a day shift into the agreement when you hire on but either way your looking at about a 10 - 12 hour day on almost any job out here.




    Hope this helps =)
     
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  5. MP3 > CB

    MP3 > CB Medium Load Member

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    That does help. All things being equal (and I'm sure they aren't), that's something I'd choose to do. But, I see now there are women drivers up there (I'm not going to be politically correct, here). Women do not deliver Dollar General. There wasn't one amongst 80 or so operating out of my terminal. Driving is one thing, slinging chains in the wee hours of the morning in the winter is yet another.

    Hauling sand is good. What else? Water, crude, the winch truck, some kind of vacuum truck, something about a fracking truck, something like that. It has to be that some of the work is better than others, besides just the pay. What's the most miserable trucking work up there? Somebody said something about spent water, or something like that.

    I hope no one has problems because I'm not politically correct, I'm not politically correct about much of anything. There is driving, then there is hard physical work. They're two separate things, although you can do both.
     
  6. d o g

    d o g Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Nobody says you have to be politically correct, but I'd like to point out that it's YOU coming in here looking for the easy work. NOT the women. LOL
     
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  7. PureEvil

    PureEvil Light Load Member

    Well the worst job I have seen so far was the guys in a vac truck that emptied and cleaned up the tanks with all the #### in it that comes out of the well. I talked to them and they were covered from head to toe in nasty, muddy, dirty junk and worked like 15 hours straight on all jobs. The one guy told me they had a high turnover rate of people due to it.

    My personal worst thing was a RoustAbout, its not a driving job but was probably the hardest job I ever had. All day long you carried around 4" pipe, a 48" pipe wrench, walked up and down stairs to the tank batteries, or swung a 16lb sledge at hammer wrenches, and did this in all weather for about 14 hours a day. I lasted about 2 months on that job and found something else. Now I drive a pneumatic trailer with either cement, lime, flyash, or a mix of them. All dry products, and the heaviest thing I lift is a hose. Only bad thing about the job is dealing with the lime, it will burn your skin if it gets on you and gets wet but overall its a pretty easy job.
     
  8. MP3 > CB

    MP3 > CB Medium Load Member

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    I don't know, is this shouting? It feels like shouting, but sometimes I can overreact on a message board.

    I don't represent "men", I only represent me. Yeah so, if two jobs pay the same and one wears you out fast and one is pretty easy, I'll take the one that is pretty easy. Is that difficult?
     
  9. MP3 > CB

    MP3 > CB Medium Load Member

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    This is really great stuff, really useful information. I do have the CDL so it sounds like I should use it and not just take a laborers job. Steer clear of the vacuum truck, sand and pneumatics are good. I could read and learn about the details like this all day long. If you can skip the two month job that you hate while you are getting your feet wet, that's one less entry on the 10-year work history.
     
  10. PureEvil

    PureEvil Light Load Member

    Ok guys, lets stop the trolling and replying to the troll comments..... Stay on topic and try to post useful questions or comments, and I agree with MP3>CB on the easy job comment. Why do a hard job when you can get a easy one for around the same pay (not looking for a reply on this, its a comment not a question). But can we please not fight on a forum, it does no good and will just piss off the mods and then they close the topic or start banning people, and I know this isnt really a fight yet, but its easy to see where this is going to head to so lets just stop it now.



    Ok back to useful information now ->




    Thank you,
    xPureEvilx
     
  11. gdyupgal

    gdyupgal Medium Load Member

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    Hahaha TY...I'd like to point out that it really shouldn't be made into a man or women issue..I have never and would never say I could out work or strength a man...EVER..I am *cough* 50 yrs old started in connstruction when I was 17so and raised a ranch girl so hard work started young for me...it's really is about choice..unless you have a physical issue that keeps you from performing harder physical tasks then it's a choice..anyone can become physically stronger...my job has some chalenges but no more then most and we all adaot and figure out what works for us...there have been LOTS of times when I have helped my male co workers out because I am smaller framed and have skinnier fingers and armes and are even taller (I'm 5'6") or sometimes a second set of hands help and you can bet whenn it's 20* dgrs below wind at 30the miles they didn't care that I was a female...so I giggle when people say women can't it's more like the women don't because they don't want to that's like saying a man can't cook or clean or or run a house hold...it's simly a choice...*jumps off soap box*
     
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