Where is everyone currently at?

Oilfield is dead. Anyone working is holding on tight and for a much reduced rate. The money isn't what it was. But still a job.

 

They are busy right now. Check back in 2 weeks, and they'll be dead. Sand haulers will haul like madmen for 2-3 weeks, and then haul like 2 loads/week for a month straight. Oil is barely hanging on at $40/bbl. The field is bust and isn't coming back any time soon.

 

Sounds to me like you shouldn't have left. I would have loved that pay and hours. I left the oilfield because I went from making $1500/wk to around $300/wk.

 

I haul sand. As was stated, the rates are down, but we have stayed busy. Just have to work harder for that paycheck. The goal is to survive until the next boom.

 

NE Wyoming-I do winch truck and heavy haul. To get the hours I fill in as a field mechanic. Doing OK, but as you said it takes more hustle these days.

 

I'm still running a pump truck in Midland. I make a dollar less per hour than before but I'm still getting 65-70 hours per week. We're down to 7 drivers in my yard and the vac truck drivers are hit and miss. Our Odessa yard is still pretty busy from what I hear.

 

I am sitting at the house with a crude trailer since the first of November. Still leased to a company but no loads. With the slowdown, most companies are able to handle the oil with their company trucks and don't need third party carriers. I have about decided I would go to Hobbs if I could find something, but not desperate enough to go to Pecos or Carlsbad yet, or to slip seat in some junky company truck. I have seen a few sand deals which claim they can keep you busy, but at this point, I don't even want to invest in a blower. But I do think sand hauling will pickup before oil hauling as there are quite a few wells that are not completed in this part of the country. There are some sweet deals right now on both sand and crude trailers if you had something to do with them.