ya..I,m just itchie.... working a 8.25$hr 36hr a week job and about too loose everything.... have just enough to get though CDL class at Central New Mexico Comunity College..I really want to had a good base to start with in this field of driving.. No four weeks here,s your CDL.. now go tear something up... schools.. I thought about what I wanted out of my traning and CNMCC.. was the best chose for me... a little long as far as time is concern $$$..but I wanted to learn about being a "Professional" Driver.. and have as many endorsments I can get coming out of school..I won,t have much money when I,m finish classes,so i,ll need to be employed as soon as I out of school ( one week or less) or have the opportunity to be head hunted out of school But goad is to work in the oil patch...even if it means i,ll have to sleep in the back of my truck... make a hand or git on the lamb...I like oil movie!
oilfield rookie wannabe!
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by vegaspainter, Dec 11, 2011.
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I spent many happy hours at propane loading racks around the Hobbs area.
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if you think they are going to hire you to just drive truck YOUR WRONG! you will carry iorn in knee deep mud, hang in a derrick making connections. pressure up 8 5/8 casing to 900lbs and pray the collar holds and trust me it does not a lot of times.150lb head will blow out of site and come down.you will see people lose their life in front of you and if you are lucky only lose a few fingers. if you still want to call ALLIED IN BORGER,TX. JUST GET OUT BEFORE YOU STAY TO LONG!
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thats true. it was 35 years ago,when doing the job meant giving away whiskey, boots and gloves.but indeed ive seen 4 people killed from trying out the geronimo line,caught in the chain useing tongs and fires.all preventable. just dont take safety for granted as you can still get bit from guys not getting the elavators latched,or in general taking shortcuts.
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how about an update man lol?
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First thread I read all the way through. Hope your still doing well and that you have not been captured and held for random by the cartels. Be careful down there and just don't dilly dally alone down there on the border. Very little of what goes on hits the media. Our southern border in increasingly danderous. Don't let anyone fool ya. Great money but please heed my warning! Befareful near that border. My cousin works in law enforcement down there and its enough to keep me away. Call me a punk ,wimp, I don't care. Lots of guys make a very good living in that area and never even see anything crazy so hopefully you fall into the group. Great thread
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So to get you all up to date lemme first tell you that im barely a trucker in fact i dont even consider myself one im an oilfield worker with a cdl . To illustrate that let me lay out my typical day.
We work day and night shift on alternating weeks dont ask me why... this week im on day shift we get to work at 2 am and pile in a company truck usually a dodge 2500 and make the 2-3 hour drive to the frac site near gonzales or kenady texas.When we arrive on the site we check the paperwork from the previous shift and the 2 bobtail trucks to see how much diesel is in them ,because you normally dont trust the guys on the last shift to give you accurate numbers. Some people are better at that than others but i dont trust anyone so i stick check the tanks on the truck. There are 2 drivers and 2 helpers on each crew so we split up the frac into 2 sides with each team taking a side. We check all the equipment the frac pumps ,sand kings ,light units,command center chemical float,tanks and other various rigs . once that is full up we kick back in the truck and wait for the frac crew to run a stage.after the frac crew runs a stage we refuel everything while the wireline crew sends the wire down the well . we repeat this process 1-3 times a shift with plenty of downtime between stages. Some time between filling everthing up well go to a larger tank usually near the site and refill the bobtails.The next crew shows up after 12 hours and we tell them whats going on and then drive 1-3 hours back to the shop in Robstown ,tx and turn in paperwork.
Brainless right? There really is a lot of things to learn about this job but anyone with half a brain should be able to figure it out fairly quickly. Lucky for me i have at least half lol.
Thomas Petroleum is really a decent company to work for. I cant find anything to ##### about aside from the normal growing pains a company has, they need more mechanics to fix #### on the trucks and the helpers only get $9 an hour so they dont give a crap about anything as you can imagine lol. We just got a new dispatcher in our office named mat and he seems motivated to get things running smoother so well see. The recent word around the shop is that weve gotten a lot more fracing jobs so well be adding to the crews.
Seriously if youre looking for a job and you have a cdl this is pretty good as long as you dont mind hardly ever driving im kinda torn over this because my skills are not improving by that i mean i can drive a stick but not really good because most of our trucks are auto and we barely drive at all . Thomas does have transport drivers that deliver to our 10000 tanks and a chain of sevice stations that they own but in on frac crew not one of them.Im not complaining mind you i get $17 an hour which is great money at 80 hrs a week . My first check was $1696.26 gross $1299.58 net. Second check was $1765.03 gross net $1347.27 net thank you uncle sam lol. Thats going to make for a good year im guessing!
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Gald to see ya back back, keep the updates coming.
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Don't sweat driving around a location like that too much. I started out driving in the yard a little over 25 years ago, never went to a school.(mind you this was before the CDL) But looking back was glad to cut my teeth where I got a good feel for things before I hit the road. I didnt make a lot of the same stupid mistakes I saw a lot of rookies made back then because of it.
Sounds like you are getting along well and starting to see hard work paying off. The long hours will get easier to cope with in time. Keep the updates coming and good luck.
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