Good companies to work for @ South Texas? Tanker

I think one year expierence driving.
No tanker expierence required.
pass a drug test and road test in one day.
1 day orientation,working that night or the next day.
If you have no water truck expierence expect to
ride with another driver for 2 or 3 days.

theyll tell you a week or two weeks training in
orientation with another driver. Don't believe it.
3 days max and your on your own,lost in wilderness at 2:00 am lol.

150 bucks a day with a trainer.
hourly pay with ot starts when your on your own.

 

At@t and cricket ( at@t owns them) are the only phone
providers out here in the woods.sorry Verizon,t-mobile or whoever
you got your SOL. You can trash your rand McNally map.
It has no use out here.nobody has one.
GPS also, you'll end up someplace you don't want to be.
Your directions are hand written maps from another driver who's been there.

 

Thanks for the info Western.
Would you know if the company would require new hires to switch their cdl to TX or let them keep their home state?

 

I've worked both, with a out of state license and with a Texas license. They don't care in the onset to 'hire you' and to put you to work... our licenses are "national" commercial carriers. But they may require you to change it shortly after coming on board. BTW if you have "Hazmat" from another state & DO change over (TO TX), you WILL HAVE TO REDO HAZMAT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS!!! They grandfather you, let you work with the old one till the new one is complete. (often the company will pay for or reimburse this change over)

 

Oldish post, but latest one to mention carrizo springs, tx

I have to ask a naive question. Anything near the border, I think Cartel. I've read stories about people getting killed on a jet ski on a lake in the US (had to look back up, Falcon International Reservoir, Zapata, TX, so OK, good 2.5 hrs from Carrizo Springs).
I don't mind having no life, as long as I'm still alive! I have no problem with any neighborhood in Chicago, so it may just be lack of info that's got me on edge.
Where/when do I need to be careful down that way or am I fine as long as I don't twitter (no problem there) bad things about Sin..a.loa or Los Z..etas and don't take any loads of white "sand", sulfuric acid or kerosene that aren't going to a well site?

 

Not a naive question,a smart question.
We have a few wells that are right at the border.
scary as all hell. It's why we can't keep drivers.
You start hearing and seeing things in the woods
at 2am all by yourself. If your lucky there might
be a border patrol agent roaming around within a few
miles of where your at. If not,it's you and God only.

yes, there are illegals trying to cross in the woods.
yes, there are drug mules making there way thru.
yes, I have seen people in the woods.
yes,we have had drivers hook up there hose to the truck,
then turn around and have 6 or 8 illegals standing right behind him.

All they wanted was something to drink,but that's not the point.
They could have done anything they wanted to the driver.
there ain't nobody around to help him.

No women drivers work the night shift,there on days only
and i agree 100 percent with that.why take the chance.
Half the men we hire can't hack it in the jungle.

This isn't a sand dessert down here,it's thick woods everywhere.
there are no open clearings that you can see across,it's all woods
right up to the side of the dirt road.
Somebody could be 10 ft away from you and you wouldn't know it.

Never shine your spotlight into the woods while loading,
you might see something or somebody that didn't want to be seen.
Now you created a problem that didn't exist.

You deal with it,but you never get used to it or get comfortable
with it.Ive never been so scared or helpless in my life as I am at
some of these locations. Those 30 minutes at the back of the truck
getting loaded your heartbeat triples,feels like 2 hours.

Ive been in those woods for almost 5 months now,can't take it anymore.
Only reason I'm still here is I finally made it to the day shift
starting next month.

 

And I suppose cell service is not to be had in that zone. Suppose I could get a good terrain map and guess when I'm near a natural passage. That'll give me an excuse to get those night vision goggles I've been wanting after my first paycheck. Couldn't justify them just so I could find the cat in the woods when he bolted. Probably can only afford "2nd generation?" Russian made, but will have to read up on that again. Maybe thermal camera would be better. How about a recording like "you have 5 minutes to leave the area before we release the dogs, arf woof woof wuf" over a loud speaker upon arrival. OK last idea, make friends with border patrol and ask about activity in area, give em my number (if it works) and offer reporting anything. I feel like reporting my position to company dispatch frequently will just let them know where I died and where to pick up the truck.

Seriously, if I got enough notice, I'd think about picking up a temp worker to take along. 2nd pair of eyes and might know the language. Probably against company policy.

Thanks again. Stay well.

 

3 loads in a 12 hour shift is crazy. If I'm not doing at least 6 loads/night hauling salt water, something's wrong. I'm surprised that the oil companies are letting them get away with such a long turnaround...especially with the price of oil nowadays.

 

When in takes 3 to 4 hours to do 1 load that's all your gonna do in a 12 hour shift.
Your driving 250 to 300 miles a night and a 100 of that is on 15mph leased roads,
you ain't doing 6 loads a night super trucker. Some of are wells are 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours away. That's one way.
And if the disposals are jammed up when you get back you might not even get the 3rd load unloaded.
That's why we get paid by the hour and not ticket time.

 

No need to be a smart ###. Obviously, your LOH is much longer than mine, and we have our own disposals where we don't have to wait in long ques. We have wells that are 2 hours away too, but there is always a disposal within 15 miles of that well. My company also doesn't usually send us all over Gods creation chasing salt water. Once we get to a lease, we usually stay on the lease for the remainder of the night. Our average ticket time is 1 hour. 15 to load, 30 to disposal, and 15 to unload. I am surprised that the disposals are so far away from the wells. It seems like it would make more sense to have a closer disposal.