Alberta oilfield driving jobs

The amount of driving that you do in a well servicing job varies a lot, in my experience.

It all depends on the types of jobs you’re catching. Big jobs = little driving. Small jobs = lots of driving.

I can recall 15 day hitches where I drove a couple hundred kms almost every day. I can also recall many more hitches where I didn’t drive hardly at all, or, drove nothing heavier than an F150.

If you’re driving infrequently, I think a you can bring a level of focus and intensity to what you’re doing that just wouldn’t be humanly possible if you were driving all day, every day. That’s why I consider long haul OTR jobs a raw deal - your risk level is a higher for a lower paying job.

I once upon a time thought that I didn’t drive very much, until one day, I was chatting with a guy from another competing service company, who was telling me that he had only driven a truck four times in the past six months.

 

It's highly variable. One guy I was talking to worked for a global well servicing company. Had worked 7 shifts (not jobs) all winter. Training in house for class 1, he was still in training after 6 months.

 

A lot of wisdom there, especially with fleet truck and some of the economy tunes that are in them, you want to be used to a truck when running in the harsh conditions provided by an oilpatch winter, Proving you have chain up experience is often more important for entry level positions than Driving school hours.

 

Hey everyone, really enjoying the thread, wish I could read it all but I need to sleep so I can, you know, go to work in the morning.

I'll outline my situation for you all, and if anyone's feeling nice they could throw some suggestions my way

I'm 24 years old, our family runs a Gravel truck business in BC, so I've been around it my whole life. I currently have a class 1, with air, and have been driving full time for about 2 years now.

The pay is ok, but the cost of living in BC is killer, I have a friend who just moved from here to GP, got his class 1 and starting working pretty quick. IIFC he works 15/6.

Now my plan would be to move with my soon-to-be wife (weddings in January) up to GP and find some work, we have some money saved, enough for a couple months rent/expenses when we get there. The big kicker is I'd really rather not work such long hitches, are there any kind of patch jobs that are actually nearby GP? Or any kind where you are home at nights? We will pretty much be getting married, and moving all within a couple of weeks, and don't really feeling like not seeing each other for 2 weeks at a time. Sorry if this is a nooby question, just hoping to land a job that fits. (If it exsists)

Thanks in advance.

 

Stuff like cementing, you're on call but usually home every day. Now it may be home for the day and work half the night but you do sleep in your own bed.

 

http://www.performancevac.com/

3 friends are working for them, home almost every night, booking 100+ hrs a week

 

They are hiring right now look here

http://regionalhelpwanted.com/grand...nd-tank-services-grande-prairie-ab/117167842/

Also check on kijiji,there are many jobs available local or around GP,home every day or so.

 

What should a cement equipment operator expect to make in their first year on the job?

 

It's been about 10 years back for me so I'm not sure exactly but if you stay halfway busy it should pay the bills quite comfortably

 

Would you say somewhere around 80 -90 thousand would not accurate?