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cplmac2 who are you working for and where at?

 

I'm working for Sentinel Transportation LLC out of Lake Charles, Louisiana

 

Have they put the Candid Cameras in your trucks yet?

 

I've begun the process of selling some belongings, buying a van, and making my way down to the Odessa/Midlands area. As a new driving school graduate with no experience, this appears to be a great way to make some serious cash, gain valuable experience, and have an adventure as well. Hopefully it will work out as well as it has for some others in this thread. I'll keep you all posted on the progress and results. Ideally I'll be rolling that direction within 2 weeks. In the meantime, I'll stay plugged in here. Thanks for everyone's information and advice, it's been very useful and encouraging.

 

Not sure if posted on this thread, but some of y'all looking to break into the trucking side of the oilfield may want to take a look at working for the larger service companies - Halliburton, Baker Hughes, etc. Good way to get some driving experience under your belt & they'll train you in the process.

 

They have had the cameras in there since before I started. Our safety manager showed me a clip of me going over some railroad tracks with my trainer. The cameras are set to record for 8 seconds when they detect hard braking or hard bums or hard turns. They record facing out the windshield and they record facing in at the driver, also they have microphones so they record any audio. I have to admit, this is probably the most difficult thing to swallow. There are a lot of railroad tracks out here, and more importantly the trucks are so old and worn out that they set off the camera frequently just from potholes or bumps on haul roads. I haven't worked a day yet where the camera hasn't gone off, some days it goes off more than others. The lower mileage trucks aren't too bad because they still ride smooth. Today was my last day hauling fuel coke, tomorrow I start on crude oil. Crude schedule runs 3 to 3 so I'm gonna have to get to bed an hour earlier than I did for hauling fuel coke.

 

Can someone tell me about vacume truck work, this is differnet from water hauling right? what do they haul? Can pm me if ya want,

 

water haulers are vacum trucks. so are crude, frac sand, just about any tanker operates on either vacum or blower pressure. most are both. you use vacum to load and blower to unload.

 

Well good luck, no way I could do a camera and audio in a truck. I would just give up driving.

 

Hello does anybody on here know info on Chesapeake or Genesis Transportation in Texas Thanks in advance for any infomation.