EagleOne

hitnruntulsa · Aug 13, 2014

ben1967 said: ↑

Now that I have a a little bit of time I would like to give my honest experience with Eagle One and what I saw in the two weeks I was with them. I hope this will be helpful to anyone that is looking for a job in the Oil Industry. This is not a sower grapes post it is an honest assessment and I will try to stick to facts and not opinion.

With that said here we go.

1) Was told my application had been approved and I was ready for orientation the following Tuesday. All I had to do was take a drug screen and they mailed me the form and told me were I had to go to get it. I was still working for my former employer, so I had to get home, quit my job, clean out my truck and go take the drug screen.

2) They called me two days later and told me that because my DOT physical was about to expire that I would have to go get a new physical that the company "DOES NOT" pay for. I had FSA money available so I was able to take it out of that but it was $110.00 .

3) They called me on Monday ("Orientation was supposed to start on Tue.") and told me that because I had back surgery two years ago they would have to check it out with my former employer. I was told later that they wanted to make sure it wasn't a worker comp issue. ("I had the surgery on my own and I paid for it. I could have showed them the bills"). I didn't hear back from them until Thursday. Keep in mind I am already out 1 weeks work roughly $1000, because I had to come in to home to take the drug screen. Just so you know Eagle One holds two weeks of your pay so you don't even get a check until the end of the third week.

4) Orientation was supposed to be in Canton, OH, but because they were in the process of moving they it was held in New Philadelphia, OH an hour away instead to 30 min. This cost me $15.00 a day in gas instead of $7.50. They didn't get the office moved until I had been there over a week. (OPINION) BTW the new office is a ####hole no running water and the toilet is clogged up. It is also in a fairly bad part of town.

5) I was up front with them that I had "ZERO" Oilfield experience that all I had ever done was OTR. I wrongly assumed that I would get some kind of training in my first several weeks on the job. My training consisted of them sending me out on a midnight run for a ride along with a tired grumpy old guy ("See post #8") that was just waiting on something else to come through so that he could retire. I was supposed to take a second trip with him and actually drive but it never happened. Note - We were still in the New Phili office and I am an hour away from there. I got the call an hour and fifteen min before we had to leave the shop.

6) The next morning dispatch called me shortly before my 10 hour break was up and told me I had to be in New Phili again in an Hour and fifteen min. for another run. We were in the middle of a MEAGER snow storm. I relayed that information to the dispatcher and he really didn't care. I made it all the was to Canton and they called me and told me SlumberJ canceled the run, and that I should go back home. I almost got in to two accidents on the way back home. Plus all the extra gas I burned remember I wasn't going to get a paycheck for 3 weeks.

7) After that they never scheduled me for another ride along with an experienced driver it came down to I needed to figure it out on my own.

8) I got ALL of the hazmat run in the Hot Shot because they didn't have any other drivers that had hazmat . This wouldn't have been too bad except when I broke down in PA and had to spend 6 hrs sitting along side the highway they couldn't send anyone out drive the truck and finish the load or take it back to the shop. I wound up working 16 hours that day, because I had to find a hotel that didn't mind me parking a Hazmat load in there parking lot.

9) VERY Bad directions on back county roads. The only good part was that the towing company that rescued me from the highway was able to move the tote I had on the goose neck trlr to the 4 ton truck so I didn't have a trailer on. I spent over 3 hours the next morning looking for a well sight, because no one could give me proper directions in to the sight. The directions they gave me put me on a road 1/2 ml from the sight and ended in a farmers field. Had I been in a semi this could have turned out VERY badly.

10) The blind leading the blind. The one run I did make in a semi was led by a guy that only had a weeks more experience than I had. We go lost in New Phili, and he almost turned on severl road that we were not supposed to be on (Again bad direction). We spent over 8 hrs at the SLB yard because someone hadn't done a post trip on the trucks we were supposed to take and both trucks had meager issues. This turned in to another 16 hr day.

11) As was mentioned in post #8 they expect you to be available exactly 10 hours after you get back to the shop. That do not care how far of a drive you have to and from work. They could care less how many back to back shifts you have pulled as long as you are not over your 70. If you tell them no it gets put down as a turn down and you will be fired. (Opinion) If you are looking at EO1 because you want to be home more forget it. The only thing you will see home for is to eat, sleep, and shower. Don't expect to eat when you are on the road, because you will not have time for that.

12) Paperwork, paperwork, and more paperwork!! Expect to do at least and hour to and hour and a half of paperwork EVERY run. They are trying to start using tablet computers for the runs but they crash more than they work, and no one knows how to fix them when they crash. Dispatch is clueless, and the Crew Chief isn't around most of the time because he is bouncing between two different offices. Most of the issues with the tablets happens on night shift and no one is around that can help you fix it.

In summery unless you are experienced in the oilfield I would not recommend EO1. There is no training aside from a few videos in orientation that you watch at any trucking co you go to work for. There is a lot of disorganization in this organization and I got the feeling that they didn't care if they caused a hardship on the drivers pocket book. One last side note the two other drivers that I went to orientation with had a LOT of oilfield experience but quit the first week, although I am not sure why.

Bright Blessings all Safe Trucking
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Thank you for your honesty--VERY ACCURATE description of the ongoing CHAOS that is EagleOne!

BigPerm · Aug 13, 2014

And folks...the hits just keep on comin'... How do these hillbillies stay in business??? I don't get it. Thanks for backing up my experiences and comments folks.

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Timosu · Jan 9, 2015

Did u get paid $17 an hour for riding in a van doing nothing for all those hours.... sounds great

Did u guys actually get paid $17 per hour to do nothing and then get paid an additional $65 if u moved a truck 10 miles?

Did u get paid for every hour u worked

August 2014 was pretty busy in OK did u go on every run they asked u to?

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