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No ma'am you probably wouldn't. I haven't ever seen a woman work on a frac crew. Doesn't mean it impossible just not likely.

 

ME99 can you give a little info on what you do and how long your on sit. I heard your on two weeks off one week does that mean your in the field for two weeks or do you gome home? thanks

 

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Don't worry, there are plenty of opportunities for women in vacuum trucks and other transports. FYI, Key has a couple positions open for driver trainees. They'll train you and help you get your CDL. Check out the employment section on their website if you're interested.

 

Thanks, Ben! I'll check it out asap.

 

I went ahead and applied online for the Seminole yard, then followed that up with a call to the yard. Spoke with the dispatcher, who thought that the trainee program had been discontinued at the end of November; called back later and spoke with the boss, who was very receptive and allowed me to email him my resume directly instead of waiting around for the recruiter to contact him. He is going to call me back after he's seen my resume either tomorrow or Monday; will keep you posted. Thanks again, Ben...never woulda known about this if it weren't for you.

 

We're usually on site for about ten hours. My job is very physical and can be dangerous. I'm the line boss so the pumps and high pressure iron are my responsibility. I have one or two guys everyday who help me. Some days are pretty rough. We run seven days a week so our equipment takes a beating. My last day on we had to change out a bunch of iron and we worked on a pump for about three hours. We don't do any mechanical work because we have a mechanic for that but we have to do maintenance on the fluid end( the part of the pump that pressurizes the water). All the other jobs on site are less physical than mine but to me most of them are boring. There is deffinately harder more physical work out there but anything is hard when you go fourteen days with 3-4 hrs of sleep a day. I don't want to make the job sound tougher than it is but I also don't want someone to jump into because they hear about the money and not be mentally prepared to handle it. Guys with a military background or farm and dairy background tend to adapt pretty easily. Right now I can't see myself doing anything different for at least a couple years. The lifestyle can be challenging but there's a lot of pride that comes with our work. My generation is filled with people who feel entitled and I'm proud that I'm willing to work as hard as I do to provide a good life for my family.

 

Awesome that's pretty good detail of watcha do...im curious you put in ten hr days but only sleep 3-4...how much travel time is it to the worksite and do u get paid for the 18hrs or just the ten ur on the site

 

Thanks for the info ME99 so do you go home every night?

 

We get paid for all our hours. We clock in and out at the yard everyday. The yard is around three hours from the area we work in so that makes a 16 hour day at minimum. I live an hour from the yard on top of that so that makes for 6 hours at home at the most. We do get some sleep in the van. Somedays I get more in the van than I do at home. But we always have to drive pumps and acid tubes to and from location. When were on day shift I usually get home around 530p in bed by 700p and up at 1030p to make it back to the yard by 12a to clock in.

we leave the yard at about 1215a and head to location. I get about 45 min sleep if I'm not driving before our first stop at the store at 115a. Back in the van by 145a and headed to get the acid tubes. We usually get there about 230a and I always have to drive one of them so I hop out and star pretripping. We usually get to location by about 315a and you hit the ground running because we need to be ready to go down hole in about an hour. We're usually pumping by about 530a and this is my break time until about 645a or when the sun comes up. I try to do as little in the dark as possible. Once the sun comes up the work starts and usually doesn't stop till I get back in the van. When were rigging up or down its totally different though. When we get there we all have a little meeting with the boss and make a plan. After you break you grab a hammer and get to work. The last time we rigged up I got one ten minute break through the whole day.


Hope that helps a little. It really doesn't sound that bad when I write it all out like that. Lol