If you want to work in the oilfield

Im a 52 yo female, fed gov employee sick to death of the rat race and cubicle hell. I've read a lot about the trucking industry the past year and seriously (VERY SERIOUSLY!) considering getting my class A CDL. From what I read on forums & Facebook, trucking companies hire older career changers, females included, all the time. As I understand it, if I maintain safe driving and on-time deliveries, I will always have a job.

My question is this: would the oil field companies of No Dakota or Texas take an older female like me seriously? Especially if I had tanker experience with a company such as Schneider or Prime? I'd be open to staying in company housing and working in remote area. I'm single w one adult child. I have a lot of freedom.

Btw, I actually do have limited experience driving a fuel truck in the Air Force. I drove a 5000 gal tanker in wide open space on a flightline. No experience around traffic, and it was 30 years ago

 

They need bodies. Can you drag 100 lbs?

 

Have seen quite a few females (younger) in the Halliburton ranks working various positions. There's "just driving" jobs (may include loading/unloading tankers) and then there's "incidentally gotta have a CDL" jobs which are mostly labor. Halliburton is mostly the latter, as is Schlumberger, Cal Frac, etc.

Get your license, get any CDL A job (even dairy tanker or pneumatic), then work up a resume showing that you went to at least a 160-hour school, are currently employed driving (gives you a driver manager they can call to ask how you drive, so pick a non-ahole when you hire), have a clean MVR, and have military exp with fuel hauling. If the economy holds by the time you have that it ought to be enough to get a sand or water job or possibly crude. But by then you might find something better closer to home.

 

That's one thing that attracted me to this. OTR is too physically easy. If I ever go back. I need to be more disciplined on getting exercise. Being on a tight run. Having to sit there the whole 11 hours straight driving. Only that one break. That does a number on the legs. The legs are half the heart.