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Sure, with Schneider you work 10-12 hours 6 days on and 2 days off. You get paid a daily salary of $220, not by the hour. You will haul crude oil (condensate) from one or two locations (not well sites). You will deliver to one of about four sites, usually the Port of Victoria. I hear from many OTR drivers this is a pretty sweet gig and they are glad they got this opportunity. You get home every night and you get paid every Friday. They also have a quarterly bonus, relocation bonus, and they will pay you back for CDL school too if you go to them first within 60 days of graduation.

Sun Coast is another crude hauler in the area that may look at a new CDL driver. They start around $18/hr and do pay overtime, and the check arrives every other week. They work 5 days on and 3 days off then 5 days on and 2 off last I heard. They run 12-14 hour shifts. The benefits are paid for by the company and the equipment they run is nicer than Schneider's. Their yard is in Edna about 14 miles North of Victoria on Hwy59. I hear drivers who want to grind hard will work at Sun Coast because you can make a little more for working harder.


I would ignore the haters on this thread, most of them are still unemployed (for a reason I might ad). If Schneider was so bad to work for they would not have 140 drivers tanking oil in Victoria. I've met a lot of their drivers and they are nice guys. Some have been OTR for a decade or more before they went to the energy side of Schneider. I've met a lot of nice drivers for Sun Coast too. If you are looking to get into trucking you could do a lot worse than tanking oil for 10-12 hours a day and that is a FACT!


If I were you I would go ahead and get a TWIC card. Anyone down here who tanks oil is going to require it and it can take weeks to get once you apply. This will make you more desirable and give you an edge coming out of school.

Good luck to you!

 

Thanks Doc for the good info. Cisco

 

Cisco: I'm applying for my TWIC background check now, have the tanker and hazmat endorsements and a conditional hire for one of those jobs hauling crude. I'm not at all sad about that, but I'm not done looking, either. I have a couple or three weeks to find the best I can get, otherwise, it's a decent way to get started. Do what's right for you.

Not many of those drivers seems to have time or any inclination to post much here. I'm guessing they'd be complaining if there was much to complain about.

 

Some like it, some don't. That's different. LOL

 

that has given me one central job-search idea that I have not had before ~ usually one can hang around most truck stops without it being a problem as long as one's efforts are legit - I have heard multiple stories about how good this "frac-water hauling" can be + sand-tanker is decent if you know what you are doing and so on but finding them has been like the question I asked one company personnel who was in a marked truck for a major-brand Oil Service & Related.....person had no greater knowledge of how to find the field-offices than I did

I have listed on Manta, dug the newspapers brother has been sending me and decided Victoria Texas is going to have enough "traffic" on the matter to make it worth working but actually finding anything other than "blogging" is not what we have to relate to someone who's bank account (me) is much worse than Original Poster { thread-starter } says about his bank account, mine has been at minimum balance for months to prevent closure while much balyhoo'd "public assistance" has proven to be about as a lead-on that is a false-fallacy as any .....

If I thought I could really get past the "Minimum 12 months Class A driving experience within the last three years" even if the equipment blows camlocks with the pump running I could really get with it as I know how to handle things like that with adroit experience

58Skylane ~ can you tell me about it?..... fa8298b8 ampersand gmail server or belvedere.computer [ampersand] zoho dot com or post on my profile or send me pm's .......

tell me about it ~ I know how to hang-out in truckstops

 

always looking, if you do ten searches [ for job ] and throw them all away that is 1,000 times better than getting thrown on the dole and finding there is no such thing ....

what is "TWIC background check" ?.... I am clean but do not know what the terminology abbreviates

 

I did food-stamps, one cannot survive on them and as well unless one is a particular profile one does not last long on them for whatever they are worth,.....peple do not waste brain on the scam ~ it is the same as adverts some things I see on tv late at night

 

I currently have an opportunity to get into operating and owning my own truck. I am working for another owner operator and have been in this business for 10 years. Truck makes 100.00 plus 18 percent FSC. Average week is about 80 hours but sometimes I see 115 hours. Alot of it is location time, so not alot of fuel is used. I would need to go in debt about 100,000 dollars to get truck, trailer and pump. Do y'all think it is worth it at that hourly rate? Would I be able to pay my debt back quickly?