Oil Field Drivers & Workers Needed Badly!

Thank you and good call! s*** it cost me over 400 in gas alone! I drive a small SUV with a v6. I just couldn't help putting the pedal to the metal after I ditched that ridiculously over regulated state of California. Car overheated a couple of times but I made it by the skin of my teeth. Sometimes you just gotta risk it to get the biscuit! Haha

 

So, uhh... Who is it that needed drivers that badly and what is their pay structure?

 

Just wanted to throw this out there for anybody that's interested, but the local labor industry is kinda hurting here because everybody is up and quitting for the oilfields. So if you're not absolutely hooked on oilfield work, there are plenty of other non oilfield related companies begging for help. I filled out an application for a construction company here and got hired on the spot running a loader at a pit. The pay and hours are comparable to driving a truck in the oilfield. Now obviously, most are not coming here and sleeping in their cars for anything but oilfield work, but it's an option if you start running into hiccups getting a job in the oilfield. Another thing to keep in mind is to not let yourself get burned out. I have heard from numerous people that burnout rates are quite high due to the sheer amount of hours that they're working you. I've heard 100-110hrs/wk have been done, and I'm sure that some of these trucking companies out here are driving that many. DOT is nonexistent out here and the nearest legit scale is 80 miles away.

Good luck all

 

Except for the DOT based out of Big Spring... They have a hard on for hotshotters. Just about everyone I work with in El Paso has been popped by the same guy out there.

Low hanging fruit and all.

 

Big Spring is almost 90 miles from San Angelo, and my post was more directed towards those that would be working in the general vicinity of San Angelo/Big Lake. There would understandably be a bigger DOT presence as you get closer to the Interstate.

 

It isn't easy money, there is a lot to it from what I've learn over the last couple days. The gross sounds great but if you don't own a truck now, you won't get that a lot of money goes into making that truck work all the time and your low net may surprise you at the end of the year. If you think it is like a 3 on/1 off thing that drivers sometimes get, I was told last night that the truck is expected to run 4 on/0 off. For most, they won't make it in my opinion or they burn themselves out with the amount of work they have to do to keep a contract.

 

Rumor's running that they are bringing 20 more DOT officers to be on 67. But night time, you see couple Sheriffs in Big Lake, sometimes 1 in Barnhart/Mertzon, and a trooper every now and then. Day time is a different story.

For the 'non related' oilfield hourly rate, they do not exist in San Angelo (.. yet)

hardworkinman, Glad you found something !!
the leases around Big Spring are soo.. sandy you 'are almost back on the Beach lol. Just wait there is a little wind and you wont be able to see 's...'
Whatever you do around Ackerly and stuff, stay in the middle of those sandy dirt road.. oh and when it does rain- not very often around here - but still, the area over there in the cotton fields transforms itself in a swamp .

For your clutch leg, ask someone to show you how to float gears.

 

After a year or so 100 hour weeks are a breeze. All your 'oilfield' muscles will be working and you'll think a 16 hour day is too short.

DOT in divide county North Dakota found a gold mine going after water trucks. The salt water is 10 pounds a gallon! Only can load 75 barrels and be legal at 80,000. They treat their dirt county roads like they are being ruined by overweight trucks, didn't know you can ruin a dirt road

 

So, uhhh...? What part did you not understand???? Lol

I was as specific as I could possibly be.

The companies that are hurting that bad are literally everywhere. like I said in the previous post, target areas are the outskirts of town on Andrews Highway as well as the industrialized area between Midland and Odessa. The only person who can inquire about their pay structure is the person who is engaging them and trying to get a job. Surely you dont expect me to do that for you??... do you?

If you come out here you can see for yourself all you need is a car to get around and every single place you look has a sign "hiring drivers". As I stated earlier, if I made a list of the company's it would go on for pages and pages.

if you're not willing to put in a couple hours researching the companies that are hiring online or drive through town then someone giving you that information in a internet post is probably going to be a huge waste of time.

Flight watch made a very good point. Its not only the oil companies that are hiring drivers it's literally every single company that operates a truck. And the oilfield burnout subject cannot be understated the company that hired me had a guy work four days straight with no sleep. You have to be confident and assertive when you let them know that there's a point when you can't go on anymore and I have had to do that practically every single day that I work.

Hopefully that is clear enough for you. If not then idk?

 

I know there are a crapton of companies hiring... I see them every time I pas through on I 20. I was looking to find out who *you* were instantly hired on with with an immediate start. I want to compile a list of companies who take CDL drivers with no OTR or Oil field experience and what their pay structures are.

I am still in the Army for another 3 months before I start my transition leave (using all my vacation days saved and not spent over the last 20 years). I will head out there once that starts, but my wife is freaked out at the idea of going out without a job already lined up. I know most won't hire until I am there, but I will be taking a couple days off in late March or early April to head out there in my RV on the job hunt. Hopefully I can have a target list of who to hit that can "pre-hire" with a start date of 3 June (gives me a week from signing out on leave to tie up loose ends here, drive the RV out there and get it in a park and set myself up for the new job's start date).

Trust me, if I could just go out there and start working, I would leave today and be knocking on doors first thing tomorrow morning. I have to wait, however, and this process is killing my wife. She has gotten too accustomed to the stability of the military pay.