Alberta oilfield driving jobs

That sounds like 21 bucks an hour to me lol

 

^ This. They always look tired, dirty/muddy, and mostly young.

 

I've been thinking about moving on from the current company I'm at. I have no issues with this company, kind of been coasting for the last while. Just need a change of pace. Kind of a comfy rut really.

Thinking Trican, STEP, or Pidhirneys. I know lots of places are gearing up for winter. Talking with a few coil guys, they are saying it's gonna be a busy winter.

 

Thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier query.

More or less confirmed what I’d been thinking - cold, wet, dirty, long hours. I’ve always noticed that the vac truck guys always seem to be the dirtiest/scruffiest looking guys on lease The money doesn’t sound too good when you break it down on a per hour basis, but in my experience vac truck guys spend 90%+ of the time sitting in their truck watching movies, at least when they’re on frac jobs.

 

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Have heard only good things about Trican and STEP. Have worked with STEP a few times - new equipment, guys seem to know what they're doing, and I've been told really crazy $$$,$$$ after you learn the ropes.

 

Vac truck running with a rig isn't frac. Its cleaning rig tanks all day then all night on the cement job.then by the time you finish up in the morning, your shack is unplugged for moving. So your out of luck for a wRm bed or shower til you're on the new site sometime in the afternoon.

 

Step's yard is always empty. $ from being flat out busy.
Hiring for coil and fluid operators.

 

Ah! That's what I was wondering about. Kinda figured that running vac truck for a drilling rig might be a whole different ball game than doing it on a frac job. Not afraid of working hard, but wanted to have a clear idea of what I might be getting into.

 

It all depends what the rig is doing... Some rigs only move 2-3 times a year and the vac operator gets huge amounts of ### time and hardly works. Often having a private towable rigshack on the lease. Eat and shower at the rig camp.

 

Pinner, thanks for the additional info.

What you're saying fits with what I've seen on frac jobs - the vac guys only really work during the rig out at the end of a job, when moving equipment to a new well site. Unless there's a spill It seems like big jobs = easy street for frac operators and vac truck guys. The company I'm looking at has most of it's work in northern BC, so thinking that big jobs are the norm. i.e. the guy was telling me that his company recently worked the same pad of wells for almost 6 months.