another craigslist "offer" of big money

18 hour days at least. Oilfield is all about working as much as possible because there is an end not a question of if but when

 

I would need a nap or two in there somewhere for an 18hr day. I am pretty spry but ####...

 

I would need two naps.....and probably a massage. But AFTER.....

 

After ? ..... After what ? .... 5 or 6 cigarettes ?

 

After the massage

 

Monster is your friend

You can catch naps between runs or pretty often a well goes down while you are waiting in line to get unloaded. The Frac crews are pretty new and one little mistake in blending the sand with chemicals or pressure spikes unexpectedly causes a shut down

Or a big one something gets stuck and the sand backs up. Then they have to bring in coil tubing to suck out the sanded. Commonly referred to as sanding the well over

At any rate, once the paychecks start rolling in and as a driver making $10K a month or more all you want to do is work more

A sand truck owner can net $30K a month with a good truck that doesn’t have any major break downs

Imagine what a crude truck owner can make

 

I've had cousins go broke or nearly in the oil fields, they were working for smaller companies I believe that went under and didn't pay them off.

 

That was a huge problem back in the day when the boom first started.

The small truck companies would get an MSA for an operator oil company by bidding insanely low and when the costs started to catch up or they would lose the contract for the wells by getting underbid the small trucking company would stop paying the owner ops and take off with the last bit of money

Then in 2014 when OPEC flooded the market with cheap oil the oil company that contracted the small trucking company went under when oil dropped from $70 to $30.

Seems to be now those issues are not as apparent or everyone mostly learned how to spot the fly by night companies

 

Yea They went back to pulling cattle pots for the most part, decided that was as much volatility as they liked in their trucking.