Assistance in fibbing?

You can't pick your next job by best case scenarios. Unloading in 8 min.... I wouldn't say that's a regular offload time. Sandboxes do have a better turn time but usually have a lesser pay scale than pneumatics do. I agree with whoever said learning to run a pneumantic has carry over to other industries (fly ask, barite, cement, food grade) but the boxes really don't amount to much outside of oilfield other than for miles/years of service behind the wheel.

Guess what... if you pick a job you don't like after a few weeks you can quit and move onto the next one. No better experience than experience. You can search all day long on message boards but at the end of the day you just need to pull the pin and get rolling. Give er hell and keep us posted.

 

Don't be scared of the pneumatic. I pull one in the oilfield cept im on the cement side. From what my dad says sand is easier to unload. If i were you id go for the pneumatic. It looks better on your record.

And yes its normal oilfield practices to fudge a bit on your application

 

Who'd you sign on with if you don't mind sharing? Out here in south east ohio its mostly cans you see. I can't remember the last time i saw a sand box

 

I've done both sand boxes and pneumatic. I like pneumatic much better. The rate is a lot better and it gets me out of the truck for some exercise. Pulling a box is like, well..... pulling a box. Only time you need to get out is to flip the lid open or closed on the loading end. Makes ya feel like a useless steering wheel holder. Any old driver with any old truck can drag a box around. At least it takes a little skill and a little work to run a pneumatic day in and day out.

 

Lying? Embellishing? Creating a story where none ever happened? Fibbing? Possibly using a kernal of truth to grow a very large amount of BS?

It aint just the oil fields. I had a oppertunity to leave my blacktop dump trucking to go into car hauling direct to florida and back. The cabover I was assigned to the day I examined the equiptment, met the owner and got to know one another the truck was capable of 150 flat out. I asked him why would he need such a fast tractor on a car hauler to Florida it's only about a day or so to get there one way.

He smiled and said that it will be needed to go fast because the customers will be waiting on the classic cars. Oh by the way they cannot be damage.

I had to walk. I knew nothing about car hauling and that 5th wheel being about 5 inches from the road surface was not motivating to me at all. I knew I would get into trouble with it.

Fibbing? Sure Ive hauled cars for 100 years, 150 is too slow. And so on. BS my way into a thousand dollar a week job. ...

No. It's not for me. Tell the truth. And be done with it. If the interview does not go well, then that's that. It's easier to go on one humble truth telling than it is to try and hold together a rotting web of lies.

By the way saw the end of your progress. Congratulations and best of luck to you!