Jobs in ND Oil Patch

outsidelookingin · Oct 21, 2011

This should be post number seven. Thanks to all for your patience.

outsidelookingin · Oct 21, 2011

PM successfully sent. Seven posts does it.

wood1979 · Oct 21, 2011

Has anyone found a straight up list of oil companies in ND?

Wildflower · Oct 21, 2011

LightsOutND said: ↑

If you want to go by what you heard from a guy who heard from his cousin who read a note on a napkin about a radio ad,
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omg, hilarious...

MoneyCat · Oct 21, 2011

wood1979 said: ↑

Has anyone found a straight up list of oil companies in ND?
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No but you can try https://www.ndworkforceconnection.com/

Register, type in oil field & get 200+ results.

gdyupgal · Oct 22, 2011

LightsOutND said: ↑

AC22 and Gisquid- Look I am a driver, not a recruiter so I really don't give a crap if you believe me or not. If you want to stay home and pound on your keyboards, knock yourselves out. You don't need to call me a liar to make yourself feel better about your lack of ambition.

The two guys at Wally World worked in Little Falls, MN. They asked for a transfer to Williston, ND and got it, they work there right now. They are actually going to be stopping by here sometime tomorrow. They exist and they make exactly what I said, I wasn't talking about overtime or I would have said overtime. If you want to check it out, swing in some night and ask for Wayne and his son Alex. Wayne's easy to spot, he has a bad eye so he always wears tinted glasses.

I haul freshwater, and I am not paid by the load or by the barrel. There are no hourly guys where I work unless they push paper in the office. The truck is paid by the hour. The driver is paid a percentage plus bonuses. I know what the ads say on the radio, I hear them. Meghan will tell you the same thing if you call that number on the radio, 60-90K. That's a low estimate geared towards the day shift out-of-staters who go home for a week every month.

I will break down the pay for you since you seem so hung up the hourly pay. The truck makes $125-$145 an hour, depending on which oil company you're hauling to. You are payed a base of 18% to start, which jumps to 19% at 90 days. You start 1% higher if you have oilpatch experience. It goes up 1% yearly up to 22% which is the current top pay rate (I think). The company I haul for most often (about 75% of the time) is Hess at $130 an hour. They have special safety requirements which translates into more paperwork for me so Power Fuels pays us an extra 2% when we haul to a Hess site. (So that's 20-24% of the truck's take.) You can work 6 days a week. You will bill 12 truck hours a day, sometimes 14. Yes I know that's over 70 hours for the week, this is how the oilpatch runs. If you are really worried about it you can quit every week at 70 hours and drive the truck back to the shop, nobody get's pissed that's how lots of drivers do it. You are paid $5 an hour extra for working nights, get $30 a day to ride the bus to work, get $25 a day for working a Saturday or a Sunday, and get an extra $100 if they call you in on a day off to work. There is a $750 sign on bonus. There is a quarterly bonus that will be 1-4% of what your TRUCK (not you) grossed that quarter. You break out your calculator and do some figuring and tell me if you don't come up with over $100K possible IF you take advantage of all the above and work as much as you can. I just checked my old paystubs. I made 60K in my first 7 1/2 months, and the first 3 weeks got paid training wages which is $15 an hour, so I didn't even make full wages that whole time. So yes what you've heard is low a lot like I said.

And just so you know if the truck breaks down you are still paid $15 an hour, $20 an hour on nights, just to sit around until quitting time. There is also a referral bonus if someone uses your name, and other bonuses that you can get like mileage pay if you drive yourself to work (I think it's at $.51 a mile right now) or $20 for driving a company vehicle out to shift change on site. To work in the oilpatch you need FR clothing which is very expensive. Power Fuels gives you coveralls to start then gives you a $250 card to use on FR's at 90 days. They give you a new set of coveralls (or bibs if you'd prefer) every spring and fall plus pretty much all the other equipment you need. They're not afraid to spend money on their employees, we are always getting something at the safety meetings, last time it was a dozen pairs of FR gloves for each driver. The pay is real I am not using any Democrat party math, that's what I make. I'm pretty much done repeating myself to you about how much this job pays me so don't bother asking me any more.

AC22 what do you care about the benefits since you don't believe what I'm telling you anyways? I don't even know why I'm spending all this time telling you this. Unless you get hired on, stay for 90 days, and use my name as a referral I don't ever see a dime for it. In case somebody else wants to know, I have Blue Cross Blue Shield health ins, dental and vision for my whole family of 4. It costs about $250 per pay period. I get paid every other week. The health insurance is 90/10. Another driver, a good friend of mine just had a baby about 3 months ago, his part of the whole bill was $1200 bucks. I think you wait 90 days for insurance. They match 100% up to 3% on 401K (I think it's 3% anyways, I don't have that). Power Fuels has lots of houses, apartments, mancamps, etc. that they own or hold leases on. They rent them to you at cost and take it out of your paycheck. They don't make any money off them, they only charge what they pay for them. There is PTO which you get as soon as you're done with orientation, I think you get 5 days to start with but I am not sure since I don't take days off. I said above that they pay you $15 an hour to train you, if you train on night sthey also pay you night pay, $5 an hour. They also pay overtime on that after 40 hours a week. You will probably spend about 3 weeks training, one in class and 2 in trucks on the job. Sometimes people take an extra week or two to figure the job out, they don't mind as long as you have a good attitude.

I have found Power Fuels to be the most accommodating (schedule and living quarter-wise), forgiving (lazy/crappy driver-wise), best paying company driver job I've ever heard of, which is why we pull so many drivers from other companies like Missouri Basin, Key and Haliburton. If you want to go by what you heard from a guy who heard from his cousin who read a note on a napkin about a radio ad, then be my guest. I live and work here and I get a Power Fuels paystub in the mail every other Friday, so what would I possibly know about driving in the oilpatch for Power Fuels, right?
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This pretty much sums it up about PF..I work out of warford and feel truelly blessed to have landed this job..I absolutly love my job and now after only a year I have a brand new Kenny & Vac trailer bonuses are great & it proves to me that they're paying attention to my hard work & that I take excellant care of a very expensive vehicle they give me to make my living..I haul FW & Frac Tanks I have hauled production & Flo Back but I like fresh water..I work 5/2 & 5/3 and have been taking a week of every month all year to go home & I still grosses over 80,000 to date not including bonuses & we still have 2 more months in the year I have givien my number to several people on here & glad to help in any way becuse I think PF is an excelent employer so just message me & if I can help I will now I have never done the I get money for recomending anyone thing because most who Ive talked to I dont know personally so its not right for me to vouch for someone else but I will give you an opportunty to get your foot in the door with any info I might have

AC22 · Oct 22, 2011

LightsOutND said: ↑

AC22 and Gisquid- Look I am a driver, not a recruiter so I really don't give a crap if you believe me or not. If you want to stay home and pound on your keyboards, knock yourselves out. You don't need to call me a liar to make yourself feel better about your lack of ambition.

The two guys at Wally World worked in Little Falls, MN. They asked for a transfer to Williston, ND and got it, they work there right now. They are actually going to be stopping by here sometime tomorrow. They exist and they make exactly what I said, I wasn't talking about overtime or I would have said overtime. If you want to check it out, swing in some night and ask for Wayne and his son Alex. Wayne's easy to spot, he has a bad eye so he always wears tinted glasses.

I haul freshwater, and I am not paid by the load or by the barrel. There are no hourly guys where I work unless they push paper in the office. The truck is paid by the hour. The driver is paid a percentage plus bonuses. I know what the ads say on the radio, I hear them. Meghan will tell you the same thing if you call that number on the radio, 60-90K. That's a low estimate geared towards the day shift out-of-staters who go home for a week every month.

I will break down the pay for you since you seem so hung up the hourly pay. The truck makes $125-$145 an hour, depending on which oil company you're hauling to. You are payed a base of 18% to start, which jumps to 19% at 90 days. You start 1% higher if you have oilpatch experience. It goes up 1% yearly up to 22% which is the current top pay rate (I think). The company I haul for most often (about 75% of the time) is Hess at $130 an hour. They have special safety requirements which translates into more paperwork for me so Power Fuels pays us an extra 2% when we haul to a Hess site. (So that's 20-24% of the truck's take.) You can work 6 days a week. You will bill 12 truck hours a day, sometimes 14. Yes I know that's over 70 hours for the week, this is how the oilpatch runs. If you are really worried about it you can quit every week at 70 hours and drive the truck back to the shop, nobody get's pissed that's how lots of drivers do it. You are paid $5 an hour extra for working nights, get $30 a day to ride the bus to work, get $25 a day for working a Saturday or a Sunday, and get an extra $100 if they call you in on a day off to work. There is a $750 sign on bonus. There is a quarterly bonus that will be 1-4% of what your TRUCK (not you) grossed that quarter. You break out your calculator and do some figuring and tell me if you don't come up with over $100K possible IF you take advantage of all the above and work as much as you can. I just checked my old paystubs. I made 60K in my first 7 1/2 months, and the first 3 weeks got paid training wages which is $15 an hour, so I didn't even make full wages that whole time. So yes what you've heard is low a lot like I said.

And just so you know if the truck breaks down you are still paid $15 an hour, $20 an hour on nights, just to sit around until quitting time. There is also a referral bonus if someone uses your name, and other bonuses that you can get like mileage pay if you drive yourself to work (I think it's at $.51 a mile right now) or $20 for driving a company vehicle out to shift change on site. To work in the oilpatch you need FR clothing which is very expensive. Power Fuels gives you coveralls to start then gives you a $250 card to use on FR's at 90 days. They give you a new set of coveralls (or bibs if you'd prefer) every spring and fall plus pretty much all the other equipment you need. They're not afraid to spend money on their employees, we are always getting something at the safety meetings, last time it was a dozen pairs of FR gloves for each driver. The pay is real I am not using any Democrat party math, that's what I make. I'm pretty much done repeating myself to you about how much this job pays me so don't bother asking me any more.

AC22 what do you care about the benefits since you don't believe what I'm telling you anyways? I don't even know why I'm spending all this time telling you this. Unless you get hired on, stay for 90 days, and use my name as a referral I don't ever see a dime for it. In case somebody else wants to know, I have Blue Cross Blue Shield health ins, dental and vision for my whole family of 4. It costs about $250 per pay period. I get paid every other week. The health insurance is 90/10. Another driver, a good friend of mine just had a baby about 3 months ago, his part of the whole bill was $1200 bucks. I think you wait 90 days for insurance. They match 100% up to 3% on 401K (I think it's 3% anyways, I don't have that). Power Fuels has lots of houses, apartments, mancamps, etc. that they own or hold leases on. They rent them to you at cost and take it out of your paycheck. They don't make any money off them, they only charge what they pay for them. There is PTO which you get as soon as you're done with orientation, I think you get 5 days to start with but I am not sure since I don't take days off. I said above that they pay you $15 an hour to train you, if you train on night sthey also pay you night pay, $5 an hour. They also pay overtime on that after 40 hours a week. You will probably spend about 3 weeks training, one in class and 2 in trucks on the job. Sometimes people take an extra week or two to figure the job out, they don't mind as long as you have a good attitude.

I have found Power Fuels to be the most accommodating (schedule and living quarter-wise), forgiving (lazy/crappy driver-wise), best paying company driver job I've ever heard of, which is why we pull so many drivers from other companies like Missouri Basin, Key and Haliburton. If you want to go by what you heard from a guy who heard from his cousin who read a note on a napkin about a radio ad, then be my guest. I live and work here and I get a Power Fuels paystub in the mail every other Friday, so what would I possibly know about driving in the oilpatch for Power Fuels, right?
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FYI, I already have a great job in the ND oilpatch. Have you ever thought that Power Fuels probably doesn't want you advertising their rates all over the internet. Hook, line, and sinker. Keep on truckin my friend.

dirtsquirter · Oct 22, 2011

Thanks for all the posts guys, and gals. I will be arriving there in about 60 to 90 days - and look forward to the snow and ice!

LightsOutND · Oct 23, 2011

jvar4001 said: ↑

hi driver you mention that
" One of our drivers just bought a couple trucks and is going to be leasing them on this winter which is what I'm basing that on". if there any positbility that in the future i can contact your friend driver if he is going to lease and is in needs of a driver ? ( i mean im trying to get around in orther to work with power fuel siince we know that i dont have checks stubs from my 2 years expereicce. thank you for your valuable information .
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I don't know, send me your name and number in a private message and when I see him I will give it to him. He was trying to recruit a couple of our drivers for $30 an hour cash, but that's a pay cut for any of us so I don't know if he ever found anyone. Right now he's hauling gravel and scorea for the pads until he leases on this winter at Power Fuels.

LightsOutND · Oct 23, 2011

AC22 if you could work a telephone you could get all the info I just laid out by calling Meghan. Yes I know you said work in the oilpatch, I read your posts. I figured you were full of it since most of your posted info was completely incorrect. At most I figured you were an extremely underpaid newbie, we have lots of those out here but winter usually takes care of a good number of them. For example I talked to a guy Thursday in Ray who was making $20 an hour and his boss was actually charging him $300 to park a camper behind his shop. He called and is starting orientation at Power Fuels Nov. 7th. In all of your posts I saw one correct statement. Power Fuels does indeed have the biggest fleet out here. If you really are in the oilpatch than why do you know so little about it?

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