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I guess this is true for the most part...but they still hire experience over non-experience. When my cousin was looking for a job oil companies told him they wanted 2 years tanker experience. He went to trucking school and worked on a garbage truck for years. Needless to say, he didn't get an oil job.

They advertise on the radio "doubles/triples and tanker endorsements needed before hire and 2 years oil experience 'preferred.'"

Yes, they are desperate, but to me it doesn't sound like they just hire anybody, especially someone lacking experience. That is just my personal experience...I've never applied or interviewed, or even looked into an oil job myself.

 

What they hire with little or no experience is drivers to haul water but not sand or crude.

 

Hope that's not the case everywhere. I'm really hoping to get a sand job so I can get paid for detention when it happens. From what I have read it seems that sand drivers are the ones that get held on site the most.

 

Most of what I've heard would indicate without experience you start with water. I wouldn't give up without a fight though.

From my research, it seems to me the big bucks are in hauling crude. I don't want the setting around that sand brings. I bore to easily for this.

 

My assumption is the pay goes from gravel being the lowest, followed by water, followed by crude.

I know gravel haulers around here are getting like $25 an hour. Since I worked for a local elevator, I kinda got screwed on the pay...only $16 an hour. I've been hearing water haulers get like $30-35 an hour, but I'm not sure about it. I would imagine crude is more.

 

BigJohn54 or anyone that knows....

Why would it take more experience and pay more (aside from detention) to haul sand than water? I have done a little of both many years ago (not in oil field) and water was on straight truck. It was more learning experience with the water than the sand, as far as control of truck. For me.

Still trying to make heads and tails of which direction to go with getting CDL again for possible work in the oil fields.

 

What little I know is from research and not first-hand experience. There are no special skills or big risks involved in water hauling. It is not as time dependent as sand. With sand you have to learn to blow it off correctly without stopping up your lines. When they need it, they need it right now. This is why they line you up and pay you to wait. Sand is not dumped.

 

I knew that the Frac sand was blown and not dumped. But the light wasn't on in reference to experience and pay...now it is. Thanks BigJohn!