Belly & Dump, Oil, Sand and Water

And general difference in pay for each?

 

Pass on craigslist work,lots of bottom feeders ,junk trucks poor hrs no housing etc. find a major player and work your way up.

 

Watch out before you go up to ND there are a lot of bad companies to work for up there. If it sounds to good it probably is, also there's a lot of pro and coins to each type of job up there. You best have a couple thousand dollars before going up to ND and don't expect your first paycheck for up to 6 weeks. Gasoline for your personal vehicle is a lot and so is housing cost.

 

Do some research online. If you spend some time researching you'll come up with 30 or 40 trucking outfits in North Dakota. If you do even more research you'll find them all over the place....Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, California, New Mexico. If you spend the time to call these places you will find a handful of outfits that are worth working for. Currently there are several outfits in North Dakota that have trucks with sleepers. There you go, there is your house. I won't tell you what outfits do this, you'll have to do the research. Good luck! Also, if you've never worked in the oil fields you should be prepared. Mud- knee deep.....cold, cold wind..... white-outs.....and some more mud. After three years hauling sand, water, and crude, I have found that pulling a belly dump is more to my liking. It pays less, but you can still make 70-80k if you work for the right company and get 80 or so hours a week. It's an easy job cause you get to stay in the cab. Sometimes you have to chain up but that's not a big deal, you do that when you go OTR.

 

Belly dump:

1. Long days
2. Easy as hell
3. Gonna run heavy so have some hp
4. Have an xm radio
5. Can get rained out
6. Great money
7. Gotta be mobile if you wanna get called.

 

Not 100% of the time but be wary.

 

1) Sand, 12 loads a week and you're making a nice check. Ups and downs and sometimes hard to get those loads. Lots of blacktop. Easy.
2) Water, many loads a day. Lots of dirt roads, or, exclusively dirt roads. You're in and out of the truck working. Good money.
3) Crude, between those two. Great money. Need to know what "buying oil" is and whether you want to do that.


Don't know much about belly dump.