Water Hauling Technology

Most oil and brine tanks at the well sites have a digital gauge to measure capacity. I suspect that information is sent to someone via internet. When a truck comes to pull a load out of a tank the Gauge will tell you how much you took. I rarely relied on the accuracy of those gauges. I always take my own measurements with one of these.

 

1) Yes, Qualcomm
2) 100% in my field, O/O can't meet needs or ins. requirements.
3) Yes, everywhere. LACT for oil and digital gauge for water plus SCADA and pumper cross check

That help?

 

Oxy started using a third party servicecalled Shale Apps. Your company provides drivers with cell phones containing the app and Shale Apps tracks every movement of the truck from the time it leaves the yard until the time it returns. All tickets are first submitted to Shale Apps for comparison with their GPS data before being approved for Oxy to pay. Under this wonderful program we had tickets rejected because a driver stopped for 15 minutes at a truck stop, they questioned why our trucks were stationary during our 30 min DOT/lunch break, and found numerous other reasons to dispute our tickets for as few as 12 minutes.

 

Check out TruckMobileApp.com

 

STAY out of the water hauling business, you get sucky drivers due to pay and trucks get abused on the dirt roads bad. You cannot legally haul 120 barrels loads has your tanker can hold and to makes any money you need to run 120 barrel per trip. If one of your drivers overflows a disposal site your on the limb to clean up.
Most companies want you to bid hauling at a price per barrels, very hard to calculate and make ends meet. If disposal is down or full of trucks this cuts into your bid. Here drivers want to rush to make money and this is where #### happens (cuts into your margin again).
I did this for a long time and got out when the getting was good! Had one driver drove off from a disposal with the hose attached and ripped fiber glass tank in to. Cost me 100K for clean-up and repairs.

 

Waste water rigs used to roll by every night. I got to where I count em and almost tell the regulars from where they throw in the jake for the curve near the old house. Newbies do not throw in the jake that early and the next sound I hear is air hissing and laboring tires once. Sometimes it's followed by a roll over which is really lethal for anyone whose cab rols into a spiked iron fence several times a year. Not a good death. One rolled so violently as to stamp a perfect copy of it's left steer wheel into the pavement, lug nuts and all. He did horse it away from that fence, but the liquid slosh flipped him.