oilfield rookie wannabe!

Hey Vegaspainter!! I get out in October!! I cant wait to meet ya all down there!! I'm in Colorado Springs right now and the latest buzz is that the City and County are about to give the green light for the drilling companies here!! I do not think that it is going to be large enough to be a boom town!! The main company out here is Mile High Energy!!

 

Hey denton!! What tax bracket are you paying for 248 hours?? That is some crazy hours!! I agree with Paulcouto!! I'm down with that kind of push!!

 

Anybody here go to the job fair in Floresville TX today?

 

Sure did, check out the Great Jobs in Texas board for the writeup.

 

I work for one of those companies, they hire you as a Truck driver but 98 % of the compnaies will only use you as a driver about 2% of the time IF you are lucky! The rest of the tie you will be working the rigs or fracing or wireline something to do with production, not driving! Yes you can make alot of money but be warned you give them more hours than the pay is worth! Alot of trucking companies will NOT hire you because of your trucking experience in the oil & gas fields. Hope this helps you out, if you want to drive Tractor trailer do that if you want to work as a "hand" in the oil & gas field then do that, you just cant do both. sorry.

 

Anyone get their CDL with Key Energy and wouldn't mind sharing some information on the process please PM me, thanks!

 

Hate seeing this thread die

 

This statement is totally untrue.....I work for a rig moving company in Midland/Odessa. I drive a road winch truck and all I do is drive. Sometimes the rig move might be 1 mile or like the one we just finished yesterday from Hobbs, NM to Barnhardt, Tx it might 200 miles one way. In the last three days moving this rig I averaged 500+ miles a day . I get paid by the hour and average 80+ hours a week. My last check after taxes was $2234.46 for one week. I have been out here right at two months and have already gotten a $3.00 an hour raise. Lovin' life in the patch.

 

I hear that Dawn Trucking hires "newbie C.D.L. straght out of school" as water haulers in Colorado, Grand Junctions,Greeley, area and I was told there,s housing in the area with pay&hour like Texas! I really do,nt want to do the over the road thing,I,m trying to find out more about the Colorado oilfields... "who,z doing what and where? " are they hiring newbies with endorments I got my Hazmat,double, as soon as i get out of school at the end of april ( may have to wait two week for the "State" to mail me my C.D.L. lic. but as sooon as i get it I,m heading out to the fields..just trying to find a company that really does hire "newbies.....so please keep this thread Going!!!! will be starting my "six weeks of over the road course "03-19-2012-04-24-2012, then pay my 200.00$ for my C.D.L. pre,trip. rode test....past.. then make a hand in the field..... Thank,z Paul& Vagas...for showing us the way... and do,nt over drive your light,z!