Question about tanker job for new driver

The one thing I am confused about is will he be working in the acutal fracking industry in PA. If he is then I wouldn't count on the fewer hours. I would expect that he will be working overtime, which will cut down on his time at home but it will raise his income.

 

I'm sorry for any misunderstanding...hope I didn't give the impression that I'm looking for a job. I'm rather intimately familiar with the local trucking economy in the Twin Tiers NY/PA area, and was merely wondering who it was. There are tons of small local and regional companies around here, and only a small handful of nationals in the gasfields here. I do understand what you mean about many eyes...I'm quite convinced there are people lurking here from my present employer, and thus do not post anything that I would not say in the office.

Just one cautionary note...if it happens to be a national carrier represented by the initials "Q" and "C", do not plan on making a career of it.

 

QC is a good enough company to work for on the national/hazmat side, but their gasfield arm in PA has been seriously hampered by incompetent management and a penchant for hiring drivers that would get thrown out of any of the mega OTR outfits. They keep buying up smaller companies hoping to get a foothold, only to have that company lose customers and go under. Just happened this past year with Dunn's Tank Service, and now I just heard they bought Infinity out of Mansfield. Bye, Infinity...we'll miss seeing your red/white Macks and Buzz Lightyear helmet stickers

 

Well I worked in the gas patch around PA and I'll bet a case of beer that he will end up working alot of hours and weekends to boot...

best of luck to him in whatever he decides to do.

 

Do not believe short hours you can be days at a well head waiting to deliver. I have sat for 3 days waiting to get my sand off at 59 a hour I'm a O/O. This is very demanding work no off days no holidays very long days. First warning should be they will hire any one from any state. The reason I left is non stop work and very hard on my equipment being pulled up a mountain by a D9. Fracing is very hard and really do not advise moving to PA go work there a month and see if it work out before you move.

 

Short hours? Yeah, maybe if someone breaks the frac or gets a gun stuck somewhere it shouldn't be...otherwise, nope. I'm going back to the gasfields after a year elsewhere, and friends in right now are calling 60 hours a short week.

 

I see now he's decided to stay, but I'll chime in to this late anyway. I moved from Florida to PA(Western) and worked in and around the gas industry, not full time though I hauled for other customers as well. The work is there but it's by no means a cake walk up there, I highly doubt it would have been any less than 70 hours per week, gas companies have bookoo bucks and don't mind shelling out the OT, and the weather is tough to get used to. It takes a hearty breed to live up in that cold, so with that said I'm sure he's happy to have stayed down here.