Oil Field Drivers & Workers Needed Badly!

T800 would do nicely. If you found $130 an hour then you found a nice place. OTR is 14 hours so 16 hours wouldn't be that much of a stretch. What did they say you would be hauling?

 

I decided to spend about 8+ hrs filling out applications and sending emails with resume to every oil company I could find. I got a call back this evening and spent about 45 min on the phone with the hiring manager, he pretty much offered me the position if I wanted it. I asked what I could do to get the ball rollin, I was told to come to the office fill out the application and submit a drug screen, while the background check and drug test were being processed I would be in the truck and onsite being paid 18 per hr while being trained.
The job I applied for was vac truck but he pitched me on a 70hr a week, 75 barrel "Hot Oil Pump Truck" position. Being a true newbi, I was wondering if anyone can give me a few pointers or perhaps a breakdown on the job in question? After I leave this thread I am going to trusty You Tube to see if I can make heads or tails of what im getting myself into.
Thanks in advance!

 

Never did hot oil... but if they keep you 70 hours/wk might be a pretty good gig. Is there overtime after 40?

 

I should probably let someone with hot oil experience explain the job, but I dont know how many hot oilers are on this forum...so I'll explain as best I can...as it was explained to me.

The basics of a hot oil truck is to pull oil out of the tank, heat it up, then push it back into the tank....then repeat. The idea is to bring the customer's entire tank up to a certain temp. I dont know for sure what the temps are but 140 degrees seems to be the magic number in the oil business so Im guessing that either the tank on your truck or the customer's is going to have somewhere around a 140 degree target.

Why? You ask? Crude oil contains many, many different substances. Some of those settle to the bottom of the tank along with the water. It creates what we call a "bottom". The oilfield terminology is "Base Sediment and Water". As oil haulers we measure it...and when it gets to be too much we reject the oil in that tank. The thing is, a lot of the "sediments" are stuff like parafin and it is perfectly fine to mix with oil and sell it... the water is the only thing that nobody wants. The next trick is that almost all of those sediments, when heated, will dissolve and mix in with the oil.

So...your job will be too heat it all up, shove it back into the tank which basicly mixes everything up inside the customers tank. That tank is then "supposed" to sit for a period of time (24 hours...I "think"). At that point, the water should be back at the bottom of the tank where it can be pulled off...then the crude hauler can come load up good clean oil with sediments mixed in.

Now... we'll wait for someone who has has actually "seen" a hot oil truck to correct me on pretty much everything you just read...lol. I have seen hot oil trucks...but...at a distance

 

Hope the need keeps up by November. I think prime is I good company so I want to finish my first year with them first. Can't say I like the sound of this cold trend in Texas though. Love the heat, hate the cold.

Thanks for the info.

 

Yes ot after 40

 

What's the pay after training?

 

That was EXACTLY what I was looking for!!! Thank you very much!

 

Didnt get into after training specifics but he did mention I would be getting raises periodically and he has a program where I can make a good chunk of extra $$$$ by not damaging equipment and not getting hurt

 

For what its worth... I've always thought it would be a good job. I would think that you'll have an empty tank any time your moving. I would guess that it gets #### hot in the summer time though.