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One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is the amount of time it takes to get hired on with a good crude hauling company. I wish I would have known this before I moved 1300 miles. I have been in process for two separate companies for 14 days so far, and I'm still not technically hired on anywhere yet. It took one company 10 days to complete my background checks (criminal, work history and education) and it took the other 14 days just to complete the criminal. I did my physical for one company yesterday and have a physical for the other tomorrow. I'm still waiting on my work history to be completed at one company and my physical at the other. By the time I start with one of these companies it will have been 21 days since my sit down face to face interview. That is a LONG time for someone who put themselves WAY out on a ledge to try and land a good job. Also one of these companies required a 241 question psychiatric exam and a hair follicle drug screen as well as a cbc/chemlab blood test and a physical demands test. I fully understand and can appreciate the extra mile you have to go to get an upper tier company driving job, I just wish I would have known how long it was going to take because I'm really walking the razors edge financially being this strung out. Just something to keep in mind for anyone considering relocating for a good crude hauling job, be prepared to spend most of a month just in the hiring process before you set out.

 

thank you or the enlightment i was going to land down there but my resources are limited

 

This maybe something common with Crude haulers but not sure. I personally applied with two different Crude haulers and had a job hauling diesel two weeks before I got a call back from a crude hauler.

 

Me99,
Just saw your post. I think I'm on with an outfit out of Midland, but if that craps out I will definitely give you a shout. Thanks.
Happy trails.

 

It seems to be. I did the physical for the second crude hauler company I applied to down in Beaumont today, and I was amazed at the littany of testing they do. In no particular order;
whiz quiz
hearing test
full blood test workup CBC/chemlab
EKG
hearing
vision
lung capacity
hernia
hair follicle drug screen
neurological exam
and a physical demands test that included a bunch of different tests, some bizarre some logical. Took 5 hours to finish everything, and you can't eat anything late night before or morning of the testing. Will take TEN MORE DAYS for these results to get back to the company before the next step in the hiring process, which in fairness should be the actual formal offer of employment. So, this company will wind up taking 25 days from sit down face to face interview to formal job offer with zero dilly dallying.

On the plus side, the company I applied to in Lake Charles looks like they will be ready for me to start early next week, possibly Monday. I will be so glad when all this is behind me and I can get my ### back to work, I've never gone an entire month of not working in my adult life.

 

####-you might as well go on over to Iraq or Afghanistan. Same tests only you will need TB screen and boatload of shots.

 

Been there done that, lots of shots. I still have my vaccine card from those days. I was beginning to wonder if my truck driving physical got mixed up with a NASA physical.

 

Hey, forgive me if I missed anything in previous posts, some of them run together and I only check about once a week, but one piece of advice (a little late for you) might be to get a non-hazmat job where you can get on quickly to get the money coming in while you wait on the rest. Some of yall looking to make this move might keep that in mind.

 

I seriously considered doing that, but in the end I though it would do more damage to my work history then good in the present. I'm not sure if I was right or wrong, but I looked high and low for temp work here and the only thing I found was temp agencies that were looking at a minimum of one week before you could even get in line to be a burger flipper. Everything seems to be long term these days.

 

I received my formal offer of employment today from the Lake Charles company (Sentinel) which is the company I wanted to work for! I start tomorrow morning at 8am. The first week or so will be just filling out paperwork and learning their systems. I was also informed that I will need to transfer my IL CDL to a LA CDL within 30 days so I went to the DMV to get the information I needed to start that process. Very excited!