oil fields and past empolyment or lack of

I live in Oklahoma. You should have hazmat before you apply. Where in OK will you make your home? It will make a difference on whether you will ever be home. If you get hired, you will get all the hours you want, in any oil patch related job.

 

Nabors will require a hazmat.

 

Yes. Get your hazmat. And I believe the new rule is that if you are married that you have to post a picture of the wife before you can get the good advice. I am just saying.

 

Crude haulers usually require 1 to 2 years exp in the oilfields before they will even look at an app.

 

Basic Energy and Key Energy are both located throughout OK also and take new drivers.As long as you can account for the lapse in employment you should be ok.

 

CJ, a notarized letter would merely be a letter from you with someone's stamp saying that it was you that wrote the letter. Worthless.

I do not know, nor have I seen any ads for, crude haulers hiring out of school. Now that water hauling has slowed down for ND, OK & TX, it will take more effort to start there, but that is the place to put your time in to learn the oil patch. Crude haulers are not as dependent on politics and weather, and in fact when Obama recently denied another pipeline from Canada to the Gulf (thanks alot, enviro-wackos), it secured oil haulers long-term work because if the oil companies cannot move it by pipeline, they are stuck with trucks and rail, and they have to have trucks to even get the oil to the rails. So, oil hauling is where it's at, IMO.

Finally, get your hazmat now because some companies (their insurance, specifically) require your hazmat to be years old, not just your CDL.

Unsolicited... do not move to ND if you intend to see your family more than twice a month. Housing is out-of-sight, meaning there were not many people in the state of ND to begin with, and with the oil boom, any mobile homes/apartments/travel trailers are at a premium. We're talking $3000/month for a used mobile home. I do not recommend ND for anyone with a family who wants to keep it. It is like going OTR and being home once a month. 10% of trucker marriages survive ND. Seen it. If you like betting against yourself, go for it, the money is unsurpassed, but the high earnings come from the OT, and you will be sleeping in your assigned truck, your personal vehicle or, if you're lucky, a 24/7 mancamp with walls so thin that sleep will be limited and the food menu will become intolerable in 6 months.

I am not down on ND. I started there. At the time, it was my best option. But wisdom prevails, and I am no longer there. I took a field management position in Oklahoma for the low cost of living so I can see my family every night and get out of the truck. I thought about TX but it's too friggen hot and I'm not much into Mexican food at every meal (although El Pollo Loco (San Antonio) and In-and-Out Burger (Dallas) are good eating). The money is less in OK, but if you care about the numbers:

ND income upper potential: $10,000/month
OK income upper potential: $7,000/month

ND family housing expense: $3,000/month
OK family housing expense: $1,000/month

ND RV park expense: $1,000/month
OK RV park expense: $300/month

ND general transportation expense: $2,000/month
OK general transportation expense: $1,000/month

ND family-friendly activities in Minot/Williston: Below Average
OK family-friendly activities in OKC/Elk City: Very Good

So, again, if you care about your family having something to do besides build snowmen and share cabin fever, either decide to forfeit your family and make the real money in ND, or preserve what may be more important to you and go somewhere sustainable. Like OK.

 

Yea, Nabors Well Services pays $17 an hour...