There’s a lot I don’t know about driving for the oilfield, but when delivering fuel to pipeline customers, fracking sites, drilling rigs, etc., are you able to find the location via GPS, or are you at the mercy of the directions given by dispatch? Also, if you drive for the same company for long enough, does it not take long before you know where all the different locations are and this is not an issue? In my case this would be in the southeast PE/northeast WV area.
There’s a company I’m considering applying for, and while they deliver on & offroad diesel, gasoline and propane to customers stores, gas stations, etc.), they also deliver to customers in the oilfield. So please forgive if this is a dumb question.
Can you get lost on the back roads?
Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by Zonno, Apr 15, 2025.
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Oilfield,Halliburton would give the GPS location to the beginning intersection of the lease road.Then you take a truck route to that spot and follow the lease road in to the site.
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I would get two pin drops from dispatch one to the gate and another to the site and figure the rest out myself and I was a night driver so in the oil field so them day drivers would have a cake walk I literally could drive by a site and never knew anything was there because how dark it is granted its not nearly as dark working on offshore.
There is an app to find wells and such but cost money and I am too cheap to pay every app that wants money from me to me it like a random homeless person with two good legs and arms asking for free money and wondering why they ain't working.D.Tibbitt, Zonno, Sirscrapntruckalot and 3 others Thank this. -
You can get directions or even lease maps from other drivers or the gaugers, but it's best to drop pins in Google maps (I have at least 200 myself) and use satellite view until you learn the locations by heart.
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Once I’ve learned the locations by heart, are there ever new locations on a regular basis, be it from sites being built or moved around, etc..
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Until reception is lost on your cell phone, and/or QuallComm. Or new roads don’t show Google Maps.
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