Pilot Crude Oil Haulers Lease in Texas

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  1. North Pole Nightmare

    North Pole Nightmare Medium Load Member

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    Any Pilot Crude Oil Haulers here?I've been receiving email from a recruiter and Im checking it out.
    They're based in San Antonio but work west Texas .It's a Pilot lease deal,they also have company drivers.It says a new truck and $400 to $450 a day.
    I don't have all the numbers yet to calculate if it will make a profit or not.
    Thanks for any info or advice ,NPN
     
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  3. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Is the company Pilot Thomas Logistics?
     
  4. North Pole Nightmare

    North Pole Nightmare Medium Load Member

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    No it's Pilot/Flying J
     
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    Driver Jobs | Pilot Flying J
    They are advertising for jobs all over Texas.A lot of mixed reviews,seems to be the location you will work at.
    They have a 36 month,walk away lease.
    I'm looking at it.I don't have much details yet.Lease is a new day cab,home every night and you get a regular route to run.
     
  6. RockinChair

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    Is that revenue or profit? I'd be curious to hear the details of the deal.
     
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  7. JoeyJunk

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    Some kid on YouTube did it a few years ago and didn’t last long If I recall. I assume it’s like any other lease purchase. Few make it and others starve. Just because it’s tied to a profitable commodity doesn’t necessarily make it profitable for the driver. How many times have we seen that play out with sand haulers?
     
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  8. mud23609

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    Worked for an outfit in Carlsbad New Mexico that hauled for them some. Their loads payed slightly better than when we pulled for nakota but significantly less than when we were hauling for ngl

    nakota 900-1100
    Pilot 1200-1500
    Ngl 2000-2400

    Those were my average weekly take home numbers in 2019 and all involved about the same amount of work as a w-2 driver for high roller logistics at 27 percent. This was also running heavy on pretty much every load and going way way over hours. Running legal on elogs would have put a big dent in those figures as well.

    I refused to haul for nakota and only hauled pilot oil when ngl was slow. When ngl dried up for us I pulled out and headed north.

    I won’t haul crude anymore. Waiting in line for hours at the offload. Driving 20 miles down some ungodly rough lease road at 10 miles an hour only to have to reject the load for bad oil, companies being picky about running legal weights, and trying to get it all done with an elog? You can do better Otr and skip the rattle snakes and black widow spiders that infest that little piece of hell called west Texas.
     
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  9. WesternPlains

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    You don’t want to drive near Sonora TX. Is a highway patrolman there. Literally creates tickets out of nothing. Tears up patrol cars. Parks illegally in the middle of the road. Tries to get people to say anything positive about being in a hurry. When he knows darn well you weren’t speeding with his radar.
    Cost me $2k so far for a lawyer. “Following too closely” because he couldn’t manipulate me for any other ticket. Lawyer has my dash cam video. Shows obviously not following anyone too closely.
    They use voice recorders. He uses that for a ticket. Not any evidence. Am sure he even lied that the speed limit was 65 there. Am sure it was 70. I didn’t get speeding ticket.
    When I pulled away after pull over. He already had someone else pulled over. Poor guy looking back and forth. Couldn’t believe he got pulled over.
     
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  10. North Pole Nightmare

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    I don't have the details yet,I'll let you know,thanks.
     
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  11. RockinChair

    RockinChair Road Train Member

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    Aw hell no, if I go that far down a lease road I'm coming back out with good oil (unless I get paid by the hour). Load it, let it settle for 10 minutes, then push the bottoms back into the tank.
     
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