oilfield rookie wannabe!

1500-1800 a week

 

Regular frac crew member starting out can range anywhere from $800- up depending on experience and what company, where they are located and many more options.
A driver is not a hydraulic lift frac crew position. Frac crew is sand guys, fuel guys, blender tender, chem add, hydration unit, acid & gel operator, line boss and pump controller. In the mid atlantic states normal weekly wages are $800-1200 for no experienced frac hands. I understand in texas they make more money there in that part of the country.

The above is working for Weatherford Fracturing Tech. normal hourly rate non experience is $14hr plus $27 perdieum for the 6 days you spend away from home each week with only having 2 1/2 -3 days off. It was not worth it in my case. I was there for 2 years and was a trainer they did not give me what I was promised when hired. Was promised $18 hour

 

vegas Thomas petro all their trucks are auto? I talked to mellisa in San antonio the job sounds great. Fresh outta school im heading down to Texas this wed morning. Any details on Relocation? housing, per diem? Troy from Nabors is offering man camp style housing suncoast relocation im trying to figure out where i want to land.

 

Suncoast is taking on fresh out of school drivers?

 

so Amy? said i think that was her name she said they have deals with local cdl schools in Texas looking to hire 100 drivers this month blah blah blah. I put in an app 8 days ago no call back yet im sure there are a ton of apps to work through. i called them told me to hold tight so im keepin it moving if they call they call but im not waiting.

 

oh forgot to add the first question i ask is do they take new Cdl holders fresh out of school?? dont want to waste thier time and sure as hell dont want to waste mine.

 

Good luck messing with Thomas Petroleum out of San Antonio. I tried to get on with them while I was living in NC, they said they were hiring but I needed to be "in the area" before they would hire me as they had been "burned" by some out of state people. So I moved myself to San Antonio and still could not get them to call me back for an interview.

That's ok because I didn't put all my eggs in one basket and got a job within three days of landing in San Antonio. Lesson here- don't focus on just one place, have a few backup plans, and be a little flexible.

 

I've heard Sun Coast is really trying to expand their fleet and one of their drivers told me they were looking to hire 100 people. He said they are getting a lot of requests to pump oil from wells. As long as you can pass their road driving test I was told they will take you out of CDL school. Heard they pay $17-$18/ hr to start you out too.

 

Rockdoctor......the wells may be why they are looking for drivers in oil patch areas. Seems they also do some equipment and fleet fueling though?

 

In the Victoria area they are seen at all the sites where you load/unload crude and I'm talking about lots of their trucks. Last night at the Port of Victoria 5 of their trucks were sitting on the road waiting to get in, 2 of their trucks were sitting in the lot in front of the bay where unloading occurs, and 3 of their trucks were in bays unloading.

I heard equipment/fleet fueling was their original business but now these wells are all coming online I hear this is why they are hiring more drivers and buying more equipment. That is where the demand is.

I also heard Schneider is ramping up their business down here and see they have some brand new shiny tankers running crude.

From what I know, either place will take someone right out of CDL school. I have not heard about any other trucking companies other than Sunoco that hires CDL graduates.