Why are HAZMAT Crude Haulers working for the same pay (or less) as Water Haulers

Just listen. They will tell you what you need to know. If you come up with some they don't ask them. Like any new job. At 1st you think you'll never get it all down. Couple of months you'll be answering ?s from other newbies. Relax enjoy;

 

Here is how it works. Drive the junk a week, if you don't quit, we will give you a much better one. How Bad do You want it?

 

Thanks, big duker; at my age I would like think this is my last stop. Maybe after orientation, I get a chance to look at some apartments, prices are not that bad in N. Colo. for 1 bedroom $600-700 they have all new trucks no junk.

 

too much water is the number #1 problem causing a driver to reject a load... too much sand is also a problem...
Next in line is the tank is not shut in, there is still production flowing into the tank... we can never pull a tank in production.... next problem, dispatch screws up, and the load has already been picked up, and the tank battery is empty. next weather, you can not physically get to the lease due to mud and/or snow. Many lease roads turn to slim when wet.

And the company I work for does compensate us for all of the above.

other than that, I can not think of anything else to cause a reject.

 

not a bad take.. production side may look steady, but wells drop off in production. There is a lot of competition on the crude side, but many that are lowballing the rates, are also causing many spills... and one EPA fine, and that low ball rate just cost the production company all their profits. I know we picked up 3 wells, due to the previous hauler having multiple spills, and the State fined both the crude hauler and the lease holder.

 

My stuff was 375 from the tap. Kind of makes you not to make mistakes. Asphalt is nasty stuff. Tankers are not for everyone.

 

yeah company's like that will eventually weed themselves out. a lot of company's have gone belly up in nd in the last year. they bid the work too cheap to try to keep the trucks moving then they higher another company's regrets or newbies and don't properly train and then wonder why they are facing bankruptcy and wonder why another company keeps getting all there contracts.

I don't under stand the spills on loading out of production battery ether. it is stupid easy not to spill a drop loading out of them but yet it happens all the time. I hauled pretty much nothing but production water for probably a year and a half with various different setups including vac pumps and gear pumps and never once spilled a drop.

 

Hi Gipper are there women working in your area as crude or water haulers?

 

I know several hauling crude in TX

 

research is your best friend , one company ,might contract to drive and buy / sell and hire you as a sub contractor , the more middle men drivers , pay scale will drop.