Is there money to be made in the Marcellus Shale?

Frac sand is a big one in the northeast. Water is another one and of course crude

The money is there if you can find a company that will let you work

 

Sand.

 

West Texas looks awfully rough to me. Need a 1 in front of that 90 to get my attention.

 

You can have your 1 in front of the 90 if you are Ann o/o

 

I'm still not sure it would be worth it even then.

 

As far as PA etc as well as all other areas the real limits for driving is the ELD or slip seating 12 hour shift. If paid by the load any delay will royally screw up the day. Getting loaded isn’t really a problem but the location may. Anything can go wrong and cause a few hours that you sit for free.

Off duty wellsite is really for specialized equipment not a truck hauling water or sand

Some DOT will let you get away with it but some not.

Off duty wellsite doesn’t stop your 12 hour TIMESHEET so you could be limited to 2 loads a day

Other jobs to make money are the overtime monster jobs like cement, wireline, water transfer

 

They aren't paying demurrage so you would be working for peanuts.

 

That's pretty typical in the Marcellus region. Some of the sand guys are probably doing a little bit better at the expense of not being home much.
You're definitely not going to see any of these people in the Marcellus region making 900 bucks per shift as company drivers like some of the guys in North Dakota on those injection Wells 4 years ago.

 

When you coming back? Need someone to talk radios with!