Considering ND Oil fields

That post on using Do Not Disturb is right on, you need to protect your sleep time like a momma bear, they can ask questions during your paid hours.

Far as the other drivers, I'd do my normal day's work, starting from when the truck is available. I don't know the culture there, but texting dispatch each day when truck is available would be a way to let them track times/dates and see for themselves who the selfish drivers are. I know there are elogs, but the texts might be more plain about who is being a hog.

Crude drivers always seemed like the top layer to me as well. After I started talking to them it's what I wanted to do, they're on their own and self-reliant and make bank. But at the time the companies I knew of needed 2 years exp to even apply.

 

That's what happened to me with an oilfield company. All kinds of excuses about how it should have been done or will be done but no accounting except random weeks. I'd ask payroll for sheets from past weeks and they'd reply "okay" but never send them.

At first the deposits I was getting made it seem okay, then it dragged on and on and the deposits seemed almost random. So I left and was clear about why.

The owner asked me to come back, saying it was fixed. Because I'd been away, they owed me for one load next pay period, but I got no deposit on payday. That's when I packed up and left for good.

I guarantee that they didn't miss billing for my loads, but likely they underbid and needed to make something back and took it out of my hide.

We need to make wage theft a hanging offense in this country, no excuse for it. And to add to it, the state that company was based in would not help me because the work was done in another state.

 

As I wrote in another oilfield thread...

 

One of four sins in Scripture that are said to cry out to Heaven for God's vengeance, is depriving a worker of his wage. Justice will be served, in this world or the next.

 

Hey as long as you’re happy that’s what matters. I’m currently switching back to a rig job up here. Guaranteed hours and other reasons.

 

Better food? Those disposals don't feed you like they used to

 

I wouldn’t know I haven’t ran salt water In a couple years lol. Guaranteed hours and a rotational schedule.

 

What's the company then??