Two loads all week hauling frac sand

Not good,not good at all

 

On the bright side, the rate of rigs being idled is slowing.

 

Agreed. It's been pretty good lately

 

That would explain why Fox Run Transport gave up on Pennsylvania and went back to their home base. It sounds like the owner of Fox Run is a lot smarter than the owner of Badlands Trucking.

 

Things were going good for a bit, we even got 2 more wells, I mean we have 4 wells going, and yet were back to what it was like in the winter, a whole lot of sitting. Brady brought a bunch of drivers from Colorado and New Mexico and once again we have too many ####### drivers. I'm getting real tired of this company. A lot of us are talking about quitting. You can only deal with so much #########. I can make this much money back home and have a ####in life!

Shopping around other oilfield outfits but I don't even know if its worth it. I see these Sandbox guys freakin everywhere. Anyone run for them or know anything about them?

I found one thread on here about sandbox buy it seems very suspicious.

 

Last year during the late fall and early winter I was hauling pipe non stop to Williston. It paid so well we were dead heading back to get another. I asked the pipe company and they said they were trying to meet their total order for the year before the bottom fell out. It did and it all stopped. I was clearing $7,000 a week doing that gig. There was 4 other trucks doing the same as me. We all committed to take all the loads so they didn't have to find trucks anymore.

I'm wondering if the campers are starting to sell yet? Those guys have no way to take them home so I'm guessing they are all over the place for sale for pretty much nothing.

 

The price of sand haulers has definitely decreased, but I have been hearing from different people that companies still charge dem.hrs and invoice tickets are well over $1000. Can anyone confirm this or are they just blowing smoke out of their __?? I know small companies that charge a percentage of the loads and its not nearly what it used to be, but as with everyone else, they are just thankful to be working again.
Let me clarify its the south texas region i am referring to.

 

I started with ACME about six weeks ago (I know at the low end of the market). Most of our loads are either pipe or bottom tools, with a fair amount of mixed loads (throwing kit boxes and the kitchen sink on top of bottom tools). Most of the runs out of the OKC terminal are local, either picking up in the city and running it to a rig and deadheading back, or deadheading to a rig to get a load coming back to the city.

I've run as far as Pecos, Laredo, Houston, Lafayette, and PA. But the bread and butter seems to be short runs from 30-250 miles. Those are almost always round trips with a deadhead, rarely with a backhaul. When I get farther than 500 miles I'm definitely looking to run a backhaul, call a local terminal to see if they have anything, or get on the DAT board and try to find something to at least pay for the fuel.