Starting a Frac Sand Hauling Business

Can you say what the rates are? I was wondering about what the detention time rates are.

 

Most of the guys around here have cut their detention down to 40 or 50 dollars an hour which is way to low I think. The problem in ND is that everybody bought sand trailers so there are way to many of them.

 

Hey Uncle Billy

Would you be able to share your email address with me (either via Private Message or through this thread)?

I'm interested in speaking with you.

Thank you

John

 

An absolute essential for surviving in the pneumatic business is to recruit and retain a mechanic who has experience with pneumatics.

Pneumatics need lots of specialized maintenance, and a skilled operator. I've seen unskilled operators do everything from spilling product and destroying socks & panel filters, to causing a trailer to explode, which killed the driver.

 

I have heard that some Frac sand trucks are waiting to get unloaded for 24 hours or more. Does that happen all the time?

 

Yes, and it pays GOOD money to sit and wait.

 

I am a new trucker w/tanker and hazmat endorsements I am intrested in hauling frac sand or water in and out these sites i have a family and would like home time any ideas

 

home time? good luck, most tell you, you will be home, but go talk to the guys out there actually hauling, they will tell you home time is 'pie in the sky'

Sand Pro delivers all our sand to our frac sites, and 5 drivers I talked to today said they had all been out over 6 weeks now without a day off yet.

 

I have a friend who hauls sand for the mines. He makes between $2,500 to $3,300 per week. That's the good news. The bad news is he stays out for from one to three weeks at a time, and when he comes home, he usually only gets 2 or 3 days before he's called back. He sometimes spends days in the woods going sometimes just a few miles from the sand pit to the mine and back. Almost every day he has to chain up several times to get through the mud. He has to carry all of his food with him, and he cooks in his truck on a George Foremen grill, and a microwave and coffee maker.
Every few days, he and some other drivers will borrow the company car at the mine, rent a hotel room close by, and take showers.
He gets paid $480 per day for each day he's on the truck, plus $18 per hour when he's under load. Sometimes he spends more than a day at a time sitting because the mine is shut down for one reason or another.
If you plan on doing this so you an be home with your family, forget it. You are paid great because they want, and demand your total commitment. If my friend doesn't go to work when he's called, he will be replaced, immediately. And before you think he's a new driver and has to bow down because of this, you're wrong. He has well over 30 years experience, and he's 62 years old.
Also, the company he works for is based in Williamsport, Pa., and he lives in Dover, De. It has happened more than once where he would finally get home after a couple weeks away and a five hour drive in his car, to be called up in less than 12 hours and given 10 hours to be back.
So, you can have that sand fracking stuff. It's not for me.

 

screw that chaining up ####, I hate it