Hauling pipe to Williston North Dakota

Anyone else doing these pipe loads up to the oil fields in ND? They pay so well it's worth it to dead head back for another load. I've been doing them no stop all summer with an occasional trip elsewhere to clear my head. These loads are no longer delivering to the oil well. They have new companies that stock pile the pipe and truck it to the wells with their own day cabs. They unload you so fast you can hardly keep up moving the dunnage out of the way.

I always make it a point to deliver first thing in the morning. They usually start unloading around 6am and your out by 6:30. It's funny cause I dead head out about 200 miles and park for the day/night. I talk to all the other drivers and everyone is empty also. There are loads out but you have to dead head another 150 miles to Montana and it's hay, heavy and headed to Texas and one hell of a pull over the mountains and paying crap. I posted my truck a few times after unloading up there and the brokers where BS I wouldn't take their loads after telling them I was going to dead head out 1,000 miles to take another load. It's funny how the oil fields are effecting the price of milk in Texas.

I'm just wondering if this is going to continue through the winter. 47k of pipe hauls pretty nice and the road is flat the whole way.

 

Just talked to a bud that's been there 4 years. He said there's another 5 years of work. Keep trucking.

 

I hauled a load of epoxy coated 4" pipe from thr greater chicago area to the willliston area, right out to the field where it was being laid. The foreman was pissed. The truck that unloaded before me and the one behind
me and myself were all OTR trucks. He insisted that he ordered it to be delivered on stringer trucks. I told him that stringer trucks are off road and won't haul pipe over 1000 miles. He said that they sure do all the time. All his guys said no they don't, that the pipe is brought in and staged to be put one stinger trucks. Best paying load I have had so far.

 

They just to pay 7-8k a load out Houston, now they dropped to 4-5k occasionally 6k because of brokers. Haven't done a pipe load since we sold our flatbeds.

 

That guy doesn't have a clue about stringing trucks. I drove one for 15 years.

 

Make sure you inflate your rates for the winter months. All the mexican's from Houston won't go north in the winter so you can almost name your price. But be prepared to only do 2 loads a month as you'll be spending a week and a half getting to Nodak and back with all that snow.

 

What is a string truck? I just delivered in OK on a string site. They used this attachment that had a suction thing on the end to lift the pipe off. I was in and out in no time. There was a ton of guys and they did everything right down to undoing the straps and rolling them back up. Now back up to ND with more pipe.

 

I do pipe to nd as well also overlength pipe. I thought it was suction cup too but its actually magnets. I usually take a 800-1000 mile load out that is disgusting in pay but it gets me out of there to a $3.00+ load. I GROSS $3400-$3600 on pipe alone going up.I should also say my buddy (who owns the truck) and I both live on get loaded and talk to brokers day and night to find loads. Sometimes I cry because I am laughing so much at some of the rates brokers tell me. It's funny when they ask what I am laughing at and I say your rate.😂

 

Nope, suction. Magnets don't work well on epoxy gas pipe.

 

I just delivered yet another load of pipe up to Williston. It had rained the day before. Red mud everywhere. Sucked the sneaker right off my foot. Got the heck out of there 400 miles to Petro in Fargo.