Earn More Hauling Sand Or Water?

Right now Water pays just as much as Crude in Oklahoma, but they won't always need water haulers. Fresh water is easy money, but long hours.

 

The one thing I liked about hauling fresh water was if you weren't familiar with the area or site you needed to get to usually there were a few others going to the same site and had been there before. with production or Oil your on your own usually so hopefully dispatch had good directions and around here alot of the times directions consists of the barn down the road with the red roof and the broke down combine in the field or go past Ol' Rancher McBrides place about 4 miles and turn left at the horse mail box and follow the road til you get to Johnsons place and turn left past his hay storage hahaha sheesh I've heard all kindsa directions

 

turksrig, if you DO want to know when midnight mass is, or early morning mass, I can probably help with that, too. LOL

 

Great Insight!!! Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, didn't really have a "specific" goal, besides a desire to change my families circumstance, I've always been a hard working but not always being rewarded for such. My goal is to sacrifice a year doing something that will yield a better return than the last year did. Life has been good but it can be better, buy a house put the kids through college, these are my goals. It's time to Take action!

 

Haha...midnight mass....I'm good thanks...

I really appreciate all the help and advice! Your schedule seems strange, we were told 4 on 2 off 12 hour shifts so well see....right now I clear about 6-650 every two weeks so you can see my lack of concern for how many hours I'm scheduled!!!

 

Well gdyupgal works in north dakota and there schedules are a little diferent than our in Texas. 4 and 2 is a really common schedule around here. You'll make more in three days than you were in two weeks before.

When you get out in the field always remember to plan for the absolute worst thing that could happen for that day. I've been stuck on an unexpected cement job for over 36 hrs before. I couldn't leave and nobody could come all the way out to the location to bring me anything. I ran out of food,smokes and had nothin but the radio for entertainment. After that ordeal I had cans of chef boyardi under my passenger seat and a crate full of books to read. It will be summer before you are in your own truck and I don't know were your from but you need to be very aware that Texas summers aren't just hot they can kill you. It will be up to 110 somedays with humidity in the 70s and you've got to wear fr coveralls and gloves and a hard hat. It can be very easy to overheat.

 

Me99...you in Texas? Where bouts? How long you been running ager, you and gdyupgal have been awesome, in the info I'm going back and reading over tour comments. How often do most truckers get paid? Weekly / biweekly... As far as the heat I'm in SA now and I've worked armored truck (no a.c.) in Texas summer..so I hope I'm ready...I leave for Roswell Saturday...training for 25 days...so what's your typical day?

 

quick question, i'm still getting used to this blogging thing, i'm here in school now, for my cdl and just started with training. I was wondering how the hazards are out there, you know OSHA got us thinking it's a million ways to blow yourself! Can you give me an idea of what hazards are well be facing on a day to day, what mistakes are people making.

 

this is an interesting question for me as my central achievements over 100,000 hours of working resolve to the fact that sitting at a computer-screen is in no way something that can give realistic view of what it is actually going to be ~ though "school" or whatever counts for something - I often and almost always reject someone "from the office" telling me how to operate, run & handle ( machinery or whatever )

blogging in no way resembles 1 AM in the blowing cold trying to put an icy camlock that does not have enough pin left in it to hold ~ too often it is like another poster in another thread warning about companies that do not have decent equipment - though we hear about that most of the time what is important is for the person who has not been there to get some time doing it somehow ... getting in 60,000 of truck and tanker or anything of that size is not a place for lack of experience

to me that is of greater risk than whether some company invests in keeping decent equipment

the only way to tell is to do it for awhile

 

There will always be saltwater to haul!