Schneider Oil Field Truck Driver Jobs/ The Texas shales and beyond

Just so everyone knows: Scheider's contract was cut in half this past week here in Victoria, TX. Half the drivers were laid off or relocated if possible.

 

Yikes! I hope Rockdoctor escaped the hatchet. There still seems to be plenty of work in West Texas, so if any of you were affected by this ..... don't give up.

 

“The Achilles’ heel we have is finding a qualified workforce,” said Byron Sprawls, South Texas area operations manager for Weatherford Fracturing Technologies, which recently hired 100 workers at its San Antonio office. The company, a unit of Weatherford International, provides hydraulic fracturing services and is looking to fill another 100 jobs.

Weatherford will hire all of them probably, most of the "pipeline" goes through the Victoria area on the way to Port Lavaca, then as well I found Giddings with nearly as many business offices there ~ both of which swamped the San Antonio Express-News for online lisitngs .... seems one has to have the physical paper to do any good

Is a vacuum-truck same thing as frac-water tanker?....

 

Weatherford is hiring for frac crews which are a completely different kind of job than pulling a tanker. I've done both and working on a frac crew can be extremely difficult physical work. I work 16-17 hours a day. Dad that we rig down and move you will swing a sledge hammer and pick up heavy four inch iron for 10-12 hours straight. If its really hot outside like over 100 degrees we will take a few ten minute breaks if it's cool we don't stop till we're done. On easy days there is lots of cleaning and maintenance to do. There's is not a day that I don't come home soaked in sweat and covered in sand and grease and diesel. Driving a tanker is like being a door greeter at Walmart compared to working on a frac crew.

 

Why was the contract cut in half? Did another company bid lower?

 

i was woundering when this was going to happen! the oil and gas ind. is a diffrent breed if your going to stay in it get use to moving alot or hire with a company were you want home to be and travel with them!! been in and out of oil and gas since 1982 and traveled all over. it maybe hot in one area for six months to a year and then you gotta up and move 600miles away!! its alot like trucking not in one place for too long and it is slowing alittle im starting to see a few rigs get staked out in the wheeler area.

 

Looks like the same may happen tommorow to the BP Account in Corpus. We have a conference call at 1400. A lot of drivers are sweating it out. I am already checking other companies out. Wish us luck. I will post as soon as I know. Stubby

 

Any talk of Schneider sending more people to ND with the loss of the TX accounts? For crude or any other hauling for that matter.

 

WOW....Victoria and now possibly Corpus? Just keep your heads up! Everything happens for a reason...a better opportunity may present itself.