Schneider Oil Field Jobs

Take the oil job with schneider and get the experience. After 12 months you will make the right contacts and be able to go anywhere that you want.

 

To be fair, i was given an H2S monitor, nomax suit along with boots and a respirator at orientation in Dallas, i would work for Schneider again if they gave me what i was making when i started, and gave me a signed contract, but they would never do that!!! good luck to you i hope it all works out for you.

 

And how much is that???? $2500 + a week? Bet not. That was norm until Schneider and other rats infested the patch.

 

Everyone is bashing Schneider, because Schneider pulls inexperienced or straight-out-of-school CDL holders, puts them in a rig, and sends them off into the woods (completely ignoring the pay rate or haul rate gripes). I'm sorry, but unless you have SOME experience offroad or are a very quick study, this is not the place for novices. I just ran into a bunch of Schneider sand cans this past week on a Halliburton frac, and was very much less than impressed. A few notes for you Schneider guys if you're coming to play in the Marcellus....

1. COMMUNICATE ON THE RADIO. Find out the working channel for the company and location you're going to, get your CB on that channel, and keep it there, until you're back out on a reasonably large hardtop. These roads are small enough that more often than not, 2-way travel is dangerous to impossible. Inbound loaded has right of way.

2. Don't block the lease road or pad access. If you need to call your dispatch, sitting at the gate is NOT the place to do it, nor is parking on the lease road (unless it's actually wide enough for unrestricted 2-way travel, which isn't the norm). The guard will let you on the pad to turn around, in most cases, and there are a lot of other vehicles who need to get in and out in a timely fashion.

3. A 4-digit route in PA is NOT NOT NOT the place for you to take your 34. Or your 10. Get out of the woods and find an appropriate place, rather than making the residents irate that there is a large orange truck parked in front of their yard. The residents don't differentiate between trucks, and if you irk them it affects everyone hauling in that area, because they call the energy company screaming.

4. Slow the heck down. If you're following a water hauler or a local sand can and he backs out of it, there's a pretty good reason. We live here, we know the roads, we know the local politics, and adjust our speeds accordingly.

 

If you made $1700 at the rates Schneider drivers have told me they make-around $18 hr-you are putting in nearly 80 hrs a week. And I don't know who you deliver to but I have NEVER seen anyone on active well not wearing at least minimum PPE. FR, hard hat, boots, glasses, gloves. Masks and ear are optional on many. That would be Trican, Weatherford, Compass, FracTech, couple of other little guys. Enjoy what you are making because it is going to get smaller and smaller. Schneider and others are killing detention, mileage, fsc and other things that companies rely on to give drivers great pay for being inconvenienced. They did it for OTR and don't kid yourself that they aren't full bore trying to kill good pay in the oil patch.

 

Welcome to the patch Uncle Ben. Anytime there's money to be made, competition is inevitable. That means new companies move in, and rates go down a little. It's a fundamental concept of economics and capitalism, so don't let these curmudgeons get to you. Make your money while you can.

 

All true. But some come in and instead of reaping what is easy to get they screw it up for the rest. There are vast amounts of money the oil companies are willing to pay. The rats like Schneider could make a lot more ,but that is not their mentality. They find losers to work cheap and ruin it for others. Like American wet backs. Few more yrs and oil patch pay will be as dismal as most OTR .

 

What exactly qualifies as a "loser" to you? (Is it ANYONE that chooses to work for schneider, or something else?)