Vista Proppants (VPROP)

Ok, ive been out here about a month now. First week was great, I grossed $2,600. Second week was good, third week sucked. Now, there were reasons for the decline in pay and possibly could have been avoided. That third week was the worst so far and I still took home $1,100 after taxes. To me, that sucks for having to be out here. I ended up being assigned to the Monahans yard. At this yard there is no meal plan, we get per diem. That is $280 a week and they tax you on it, which is weird. Anyway, they do pay hourly now and it’s $25 with overtime over 40. Weekly pay. They also just switched to a 5/2 schedule, so you have the same two days off every week. The issue has been trucks. Currently, there are around eight trucks down for whatever reason. So, every shift change you have guys standing around up to two hours waiting for a truck to come in. To me, that sucks. Yes, we are being paid to stand there, but it still sucks. There are a handful of trucks with the a/c not working and it’s getting hot out here. A lot of the trucks have a cb that doesn’t work either, which you need as a frac sand driver to get loaded at the mine especially. I just don’t understand how they can let these small issues continue. The housing is ok as mentioned previously, you get your own fema trailer. Direct tv and WiFi included. Maid service once a week as well, which is nice. All toiletries also, so you can basically show up with your clothes and that’s all you need. I’m letting the little things discourage me, but overall I would recommend it. Maxing our your 60 hours for the five days, plus the per diem puts you at $2,030 a week. They also have been letting guys work one of their days off. They do need to change everyone to a 70 hour clock, but have not done it yet. Their reasoning makes no sense. Also electronic logs are done with either a tablet or handheld device. We are short drivers, so if you wanna come out, apply. Then call and hound them. Hope all this helps.