Looking into Oil Field

Living in

living in Florida is not a problem for them.
It's a problem for you as far as getting home time.
You'll need to find a 3 or 4 week on duty job with
A week off.
Since oilfield work is local, you'll have to spend
Your own time and money to go home.
That gets costly real quick.

 

Some of us don't want to be OTR. I get to sleep in my own bed every night and I don't eat and shower at truck stops. I'm that guy rolling down the road every day out in the patch with a BIG middle finger in the air, waving it to all the Arabs in the Middle East because the USA isn't sending them billions of dollars for their oil.

 

Alberta is about to be on fire. There aren’t enough trucks in Canada or the US to move their oil. Not that it would help if there were.

All you guys who like the oilfield gigs. This is one to watch. They’ve become landlocked due to litigation going on, on both sides of the border. No pipelines to pump it out, no rail to move it during harvest.

Last report I read, it was down to $17 a barrel.

 

If you like working 70-100+ hrs a weeks go right ahead. 24 hour resets. 16 hr days. You can have that.

 

Odessa Texas has been going bananas for a couple years. Prices for everything are out the wazoo. But...but but but...so good megas have jumped in in the last few months and I will bet that's driving the wages down. Just noticed pump prices drop...at thanksgiving ! That may be a bad omen.
Oilfield is hard and fickle but in Texas there is always a need for frac water and to the rig fuel haulers. You just have to be flexible.
Want to make scary big money and you have an iron constitution? Work on the rigs and don't go out with the gang on off time week.

 

How do I find out about Alberta?

 

I really can’t answer that question. You might ask in the Canadian driver forum. I would imagine that a company would have to speak up for you, to obtain a work visa.

But be advised. You do NOT want to be driving there right now. Transporting anything without heavy winter driving experience, could cost you your life.

Roads turn ugly in minutes, and close at the drop of a hat. Chains are a way of life on the Okanagan in winter.