Well at either rate I start training in October and I hope that it works out because I'm sick and tired of BS trucking companies and changing jobs every other year because of some stupid pay change or lost account or whatever endless amount of stupid management choices that I'm forced to live with on a daily basis. I'm just hoping to get a break for once with BH maybe this time it will work out.
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Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by davidl, Sep 16, 2014.
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wish you luck with that davidl.
the oil field is full of lost contracts, jobs vanishing over night. The stupid management decisions will still be there.
And the competition is fierce to make the money in the short boom cycle. -
Learn what you can and save your money and you will be fine
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used to be in oil biz,
mobil oil corp
man hard work, guy once lied for me to a supervisor,
tracking me down,
said "...he left here, a while ago..."
I still got the haz-mat class A,
they pay extra?
hear 6 figures in west Texas? -
Edit to add: That is for Frac side. For Cement side, you are mostly oncall. When they call you, you catch a job and if you want another job, if there is one, then you can catch another job and then rest and be on call again. Also, this is for West Texas and this is what they did couple years back, if things haven't changed, which I don't think it has, that's what you can expect.
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How long is orientation and how much do they pay for it?
Where do they put you up during training in Dickinson?
I'm finishing my 2 weeks notice then starting on the 21st -
Thanks for the info. I was supposed to start training in harrisburg monday but didn't have all my stupid computer forms filled out. hopefully will get back on track now that they are all filled in! The job i have now is supposed to be one month on and one month off, working 3 days a week...so far its been 6 days a week and i'm supposed to start the month off next week so starting with bh should fall right on my month off.
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An update.......................
Cement is a young mans game thats for sure. I'm mid 40's with lots of trucking experience and thought that I would try my hand at the oil cement gig... Took me about 6 hours to figure out that I'm just too old, fat and out of shape for this kind of work.
The job requires you being on call and they have a one hour "yard time" meaning you need to be at the yard ready to work in one hour after they call.
Long waiting periods with heavy manual labor in between. They use these things they call "iron" which is heavy freakin pipes that they pump the cement through. 2 people carry them but its still heavy after about 10 of them.
If anything is broken on the pump truck you are expected to fix it after you return to the yard and before you go home. This is not just like replacing a light or something like that, picture pulling a truck transmission and replacing a clutch or something along those lines...heavy hard work.
This would have been a great job for me about 15 years ago but #### that fraq stuff just aint for me.
Decent money but it aint free so don't do like I did and look at the work realistically and seriously think about it, think I'll go back to tanker yankin with my tail between my legs! -
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