Girl wants to go into oil field trucking

There's lots of diffenent Oil Field jobs hauling water,crude,pipe and frac sand to mention a few do some research to figure which job you want to persue. Then decide how to get there. Mega Carriers will get windshield time and road experance. But won't get you the off road driving that oil field requires you'll get that on the job. IF your from Farmington NM there's lots of oil field support companies there talk to as many as you can. Most have yards all over the country so relocation is an option if you don't mind. Most Fracing companies rely on outside carriers to haul their sand to the well sights so if that's the direction you want to go check with those companies. That's the work I do in Texas,NM,OK,mostly. Although I've worked in CO,WY,MT,ND,PA,and WV in the last 9 years. Which ever you choose good luck and do the research so you can make an informed decision. There are some mega companies branching off in the oil field Schneider for one although I wouldn't work for them,but that's a personal choice. IT's my experiance all they do is cut rates and make it hard on the companies that know the business and have doing this for years. In my opinion they need to stay with what they know and it's not Oil Field.

 

I started out in the oilfields hauling water and they pick up a lot of new drivers for this work. I know that oilfield companies like Halliburton and such will also pick up new drivers but if all you really want to focus on is driving I don't recommend that route because they usually make their drivers do other work between moving trucks. Hauling frac sand is harder unless you love driving in close quarters all the time and usually frac sand outfits want some experience. Crude/condensate hauling usually takes years of experience to get into but is good work, in my opinion. I don't have any knowledge of the flatbed's that bring in casing and other loads to the rigs. What was said about growing a thick skin is true, oilfield's are full of a-holes, no doubt. My advice would be to start out hauling water as I think you get a good idea of what else is out there without the work being hard to start out in.

 

Hi Sheena, I see quite a few female drivers out here. People in the oilfield are a-holes to everyone, doesn't matter if you are a female or not. I have a low opinion of the oilfield lifestyle, I came from office work before this and don't understand how being a dick makes you special, but whatever. I had no driving experience when I started hauling water and no oilfield experience. I started out hauling production water from wells to disposals and that is pretty simple work. But it was hard to find a good company so I switched to a company that hauled more "fresh" water than anything else. They might not have hired me without the little bit of experience that I had from the production job. The work is pretty simple stuff, you load up water and you unload it. Lots of backing and lots of off-road driving on really bad roads in so-so equipment, long hours, but decent money. I've actually moved on to hauling fuel to rigs and such now. Hopefully with a year or so of this I can get into crude hauling.

 

Have never hauled water although the company I work for does. So I can't give feedback other than it's 12 hour day's hourly pay and a predictable schedule. At least that's what this company offers good luck do your best you'll do fine

 

Send an PM to my wife she started in the oilfields hauling years ago she cam give you alot of info. You will require an H2S ticket as well

 

No need for a PM I can read. The fastest way depending on the type you want to do is check with companies who are hauling oilfield equipment and see if you can get on as a swamper. Then after a while if you like the work and have some knowledge and driving experience then the company may give you your own truck or you can look for a driving job. I started hauling drilling rigs for a friend of our families. Tankers are not real oilfield work they just think they are if the truck or trailer does not have a live roll it is not real oilfield. LOL Live-rolls, chains, boomers snatch blocks and winches that is real oilfield.