Jobs in ND Oil Patch

That's a good joke. Got any others?
PF starts their drivers out at 17%. Max hourly rate for truck is $145.00
Unless y'all scammin your customers for pre and post trip and fueling then max billable hours per slip seat shift is 11 hours.
17% of $145.00 (MAX) is $24.65 per billable hour (MAX)
No time and half = PF
High quality equipment = PF
fair housing = PF
No company offers better health insurance than MBI. Period. Not even close.
$24.65 X 11 = $271.15 per 11 hour billable shift ( one hour per shift your time donated to PF )
$275.15 X 6 days (5 & 1) = $1626.90 in a 7 day period (6 of those days worked. 6 hours not billable so no pay for those 6 hours. No time & 1/2).
MBI worst case scenario = $19.00 per hour = time & 1/2. If you only want to work 12 hours you can so we will keep it apple 2 apple. 12 X 6 = 72 hours in a 7 day period.
$19.00 X 40 hours = $760.00 . $28.50 X 32 hours = $912.00 . $1672.00 minimum Vs $1626.90 MAX

Know what I mean?

 

KDC, PF actually starts drivers @ 18%. After a 60 day probationary period it goes to 19%. If a driver is doing a job for Hess, another 2% is added. If you work the night shift for PF they will pay you an extra $5 per hour. Time for pre/post trip inspections and paperwork is included in the billing. This way a driver can bill a full 12 hours. If you live in Minot PF will pay you an additional $30 a day to ride the bus from Minot to Stanley and back. A typical night for a PF water hauler is as follows:

For a new driver on probation:

18% of $140.00 hr = $25.20 x 12 hrs = $302.40, add $60 for 12 hours at night, and $30 for riding the bus = 392.40. A typical 5 day week for a new driver would be $1962. If a driver works a 5 days on and 1 day off schedule that would translate into a 6 day week would be $2354.40.

As far as health insurance, MBI does have a good health insurance plan. A typical family plan at PF is about $125 a week.

 

Think I'll pull up a stool for this round....

 

Wow! The kind of numbers I like to see. Even on the low end haha. These are both really good posts, in giving everyone else an idea to what MBI pays vs PF

 

I think he's got me beat. I also think Plains Marketing actually pays more than either. MBI still has the best insurance package though.

 

My company in ND has hourly wages that range from $28.08-30.24 /hr to start, depending on experience, for vac truck drivers.

So to compare to Barracuda:

We pay hourly, with time and a half after 40 hrs in a week.

(assuming 2 yrs CDL exp.) 30.24 x 12 = 362.88 / day 5 day week = 2116.80. Not including any subsistence etc...

6 day week = 2570.40...

assuming less than 2 yrs CDL exp. 28.08 x 12 = 336.96 /day 5 day week = 1965.60 6 day week = 2386.80

once again, not including any subsistence, any differential pay etc..

 

Nevermind.

 

oops, supposed to be a PM

 

I have 3 years experience with my CDL, however not in the oilfields, mainly in distribution kicking a dolly breaking my back for 70 hours. I have all necesary endorsements. Is your company hiring?

 

Here on page 141 of this thread, this topic may have already been addressed, but I haven't seen it in the last 10 pages or so. I don't want to talk about money right now. I don't want to talk about housing. I want to talk about the work itself.

Now, for all the heroes out there, I know my questions aren't for you, so take a break. My questions are more for mortals and weenies, because we have CDLs, too.

A lot of old timers in trucking boast, "I don't touch freight". My last job making deliveries to Dollar General, we could be up at 4 am in the middle of winter rolling off these heavy rolltainers and unloading all these "toppers" in the dark. Now, sometimes I'm not the brightest bulb, but I have to say that if the money is equal, I'd rather be sitting on my ### in a warm cab holding a steering wheel than in the back of the trailer in the dark trying to figure out where this #%&*@ rolltainer is caught up and why it won't come out. Anybody feeling me?

So now, the oil field jobs. We all like money, but I still imagine I'd rather be in the truck holding the steering wheel than outside in the cold at 3am watching hoses to make sure they haven't broken as this extremely loud pump rumbles from the PTO. Anybody feeling me now? I'm just saying, I'm trying to talk about the work itself, taking a break from the pockets full of cash you can make.

For us mortals and weenies, is there some kind of driving that is more sissy-comfortable than others? Water? Crude? Winch truck sounds like handling a lot of steel at -10 degrees. You don't tarp up there...in the winter...at night...with the wind howling...do you?

If anyone would speak about the work itself that would be great. 80 hours a week is one thing if you're getting paid at some base camp to hold a cup of coffee and endure a bunch of trucker BS. 80 hours of slinging chains and digging yourself out of the mud, that's something else, isn't it?

TIA brothers. Peace, out