Alberta oilfield driving jobs

Prairie boy.Just wondering,you have obviously hauled a lot of different thing's.can a guy do allright hauling logs in Grande Prairie? Thinking about goin out to give her a try. I see there is a few guy's looking for drivers. Thank's

 

Pretty hilly south and west of Grande Prairie and north of Grande Cache, how big are your balls ? There's some nasty roads around there, Naraway road comes to mind and the forestry trunk road 734 are some serious roads, and I grew up in the mountains. O_0

Careful what you wish for.

 

Pinner, does the Narraway still have the slide where you MUST wait to be towed across? I think it was about 26 - 29 kms in.


As for logs, never hauled any in my life. Don't know anything about the dollars at all..
I've pipelined south of GP using a lot of the logging roads. The canFor comes to mind coming in from the north and also from Little Smokey to Karr Camp area and Deep Valley.

 

Speaking of that. I'm hanging out in wonowon at the Super96 camp for a week. The road is glass up here and a good amount of snow. Its on mile 102 of the Alaska highway.. drove up here today. At least 10 accidents on the road. 6 1/2 hours to go 288km. Blah.

Myself too.. slid off some rig matting into the soft stuff. Good thing there was a d6 to drag me out.

Eventful day.

 

Wonowon is mile 101, not 102

Pipeman, I haven't been on the Naraway road for a few years. Last time was 4" of wet snow with a super b and that was when it was a bit narrow due to a slide. I'm sure that has been fixed up since Shell has operations back there.

On a side note, the Feds stopped the Petronas deal...interesting.

 

Eventful day.[/QUOTE]

Eventful, yet you still express Gratitude about it. Shows character.

 

Eventful, yet you still express Gratitude about it. Shows character.[/QUOTE]

Course I do. Its all part of the adventure. It pays my bills and keeps a roof over the family lots of gratitude for that.

 

there's usually at least a little cursing and gnashing of teeth in the moment, but at the end of the day i find myself thinking today wasn't boring

 

Thx for you post!
I was surfing this thread, looking for numbers/$$$ because i was thinking about some adventure in the west, but..... this are not money. I take 2-3 loads/ year to BC,AB,Sk, i love the the west, but to work in winter time and the health risk involved, road conditions doesn't worth 25- 30$/hour. Monday, dec 14 2009, my truck was totaly frozen south of Red Deer ,Alberta( Hhy 2) , my dash termometer was showing -51 dergrees Celsius, i still have a frost bite scar on my knee. The services out west are way more expenssive;,hotels,food, shop services,towing.
I tell you honestly, i'm O/O for for Celadon Canada i get 1.45$ mile hauling general freight/ autoparts from Ontario to USA; flat roads, midwest,mild weather never use chains ;, my truck is paid off, i get average 85-90 cents/ mile clean after fuel expenses; company paid insurance,bridges,IFTA tax, plates,tolls. I'm just saying, i take home 8-9,000$/ month ( minus truck maitenance)driving aprox.2500 miles/week; most weekends home.

 

Everybody is different. Being an O/O is a different thing. Some O/Os can make $120k in 3 months working up north. Just depends what you want. And by the way, I was originally talking about a non O/O gig using company trucks. And you are making good money, but how much more can you improve? I know guys who started in the patch and within a few years, were sent abroad earning a MINIMUM of $200k working 1 month on, 1 month off.