The company payed for my room. Most will expect to you to have a roommate but it is not uncommon to have a company put you up in a hotel, expecially if they put you in a position where you might have to move around with the job.
Schneider Oil Field Truck Driver Jobs/ The Texas shales and beyond
Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by Rockdoctor, Jun 4, 2012.
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Just want to let those know who have followed this thread for awhile. Stubby is still kicking. I left SNI 12/21/2012, now after a nice Christmas Vacation, I will start with Nabors, hauling crude, in Kenedy TX tomorrow. I will post some about this new chapter, soon. However I will follow the advice of Rockdock
" I proably shared too much" with the SNI Adventure. On that subject setting aside your feelings about SNI having no business in the Patch. I met and worked with some of the finest Drivers. Yes there were a few slapnutts and a dipsh#t, and even one that I called Double Dip, as he was a dipsh#t times two.
I earned more than I was promised, learned some, had some good laughs, and made some lifetime Friends. I just decided that Nabors pay and work schedule was more to my liking. Stubbybubzokrex, Rockdoctor and Big Duker Thank this. -
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Hey V8-MACK, I see you are giving bad advice again. SCREW OTR, you hear me! Stop telling people to waste their time there. You are messing with people's livelihoods.
FACT is I have never been OTR, been operating a tanker since I got my CDL. Been hauling condensate and crude oil for almost a year now. NO SPILLS, NO ACCIDENTS, my company LOVES me. Going OTR would have been a HUGE waste of time running all over for low wages and no off road experience. I'm VERY comfortable in my bed each night and I LOVE what I'm doing. Bet a lot of OTR drivers can't make those two claims!!!
Funny thing is I HAVE seen some drivers with lots of OTR experience make some very simple mistakes and do some dumb stuff in a truck. Bottom line is this...some people should never be allowed to operate hazmat no matter how much experience they have because they just don't pay attention or they are not too bright to begin with.
So my advice to anyone coming out of CDL school...there are PLENTY of seats to fill in the patch. Don't be intimidated by some guy who thinks there is one correct path to earning your CDL stripes. Get you CDL, find a job you want to do in the patch, then get the experience you need to make it happen, but don't think that OTR will do it for you. At the company I work for I see them turn down plenty of CDL drivers with OTR experience for all kinds of reasons such as no tanker experience, accidents, job hopping, etc.
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He's not saying go otr if your a newb. He's telling people don't work for a company like Schneider who undercuts the work and is driving the wages down in the patch...
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Sounds like bad advice to me!
Funny thing is I hear drivers who work at Sunoco right out of CDL school make low wages too but no one is blaming Sunoco for low wages. Seems like a lot of folks have a hard on for Schneider. At least they will give a newbie a shot at getting some tanker exp. Also SNI will train a driver a couple of weeks which is more than I can say about most operating in the patch. Seen a lot of companies so eager to get someone in a truck you might get a day or two of training at best. -
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Why do you rookies keep calling it a"patch" this is not ND or the 1920 anymore. Its called oilfield and let me ask you a question RockDr how many accdents have Schnider had over in San Antonio since they started this great idea of doing "OILFIELD" work with day cabs because they thought they would be over weight. When you run out of Hours on the well site and they have to change drivers how do they feel about that. This is not dry van freight or other OTR trucking this is OILFIELD work so if you want to learn how to drive do it OTR before you kill some one. You said you have been doing tankers since you got your CDL what a year ago, what happens when there is no more oilfield work because another company does a better job then what you going to do when you have to go OTR AND THEY GET SCARED OR DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO IN THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO AND THEY KILL SOMEONE. This is not fun and game and Im tired of the lies that you guys tell these new guys Schnider is not great it sucks the money sucks, waiting in a truck for 24 hours because there not smart enough to get sleepers sucks. If you go home every night thats not Oil Field work that like working at MCDONALDS. If want respect you have to earn it, its not something a book can teach you or a guy in some classroom tells you about. So tell them the truth because after all WHERE DO YOU WORK NOW?
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