Alberta oilfield driving jobs

One more question, My AZ Ontario License is up for renewal in January of 2014. Would you suggest I renew it here early or renew it there? Or does it matter?

 

Thanks for the PM BT! Had to post this so I could get to 7 posts to PM you back hehe.

 

any chance i can get in on this?

I applied to every company online, and after reading through this thread im realizing that was a huge waste of time.

If I were to come up with no experience would i be likely to get a job driving? or would it be doing other stuff until they feel like giving me a shot?

 

Working in well service is 10 % driving, 90% working on lease. As a fraccer, working on lease is rigging in and out the iron, working frac sand equipment, and fueling the equipment as it runs, called hot fueling. Sometimes it's easy, other times its miserable. Comes with the territory.

vitaming you have a class 1?

 

Depends if you will keep your licence in Ontario or change to an Alberta one.

edit: this was in response to class1hopefull post about his AZ renewal.

 

yes i recently got my class 1 in BC.

Im mostly looking for experience that might help me get into the IUOE as a mobile crane apprentice. Driving and rigging i think would help.

 

God #### B.C and the east coast are useless for creating jobs. If it wasnt for the Ab,sk, and manitoba i swear to god we would be in a ####### rut like usa. We got you Canada we will carry the heavy weight....

 

someone just started a ##### storm

 

Manitoba sucks more equalization payments than just about any Province.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canada

 

I was at there information session a month ago. Every 2 months they hold an information session about entering the trades at the IUOE in BC. There was 3 of us there inquiring about mobile cranes. I don't live in BC, so I couldn't get registered for training. You can.

The union indentures and trains apprentices. If I were you, I would apply after attending their next information session. They only take 5 per class and 4 classes a year. You must pass their trade entrance exam but its fairly easy.

I got lucky and got an apprentice mobile crane position in Edmonton the day after I got back from Vancouver. But I was seriously considering in moving to BC for them.

The info session is in Burnaby, the training is in maple ridge, and the test can be done at any union office in bc. It does cost some money for training, but worth it.