Go visit your local Texas Workforce Commission office (especially if you're in the Basin), they will be able to give you a lot better answers than we can, and they might have resources to help you pay for it.
Check your local community college, they will probably have a truck driving program. There may also be stand-alone truck driving schools in your area. You will need to complete such a program before anybody worth working for will hire you. Companies that require a year's experience might be willing to waive that requirement if you can prove you graduated from an accredited school.
Since you're just starting out, you might try some of the big freight companies that have oilfield operations, like Stevens. Avoid fly-by-night companies, and remember if anything sounds too good to be true, it's definitely untrue.
DO NOT get suckered into a lease or lease purchase program under any circumstances. And make sure they pay you on a W-2, not a 1099.
Employed as a trucker in the Texas oil field with no experience?
Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by trucrepo, Aug 9, 2018.
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A typical fracking crew might have 10 on the crew that have a CDL. There might be a few dozen trucks that are in place during the fracking. When it comes time to move to another fracking site those drivers will take 10 trucks, the rest are taken by drive away drivers.
You won't primarily be driving trucks. Your primary job is physical labor, a dirty job with lots of overtime. You only drive when the crew moves to a new location. You will drive a variety of truck/trailer combinations. You will become familiar with the use of brake cleaner to get dried fracking fluid off the windshield, windows, and mirrors so you can see at all.CJ701 and Crude Truckin' Thank this. -
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I live two hours from midland and lots of people live here and make the commute daily. It is nuts.
It is not at all uncommon to pay $3-400 a night for a motel over there that would go for $50-60 anywhere else.Lepton1 Thanks this. -
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I understand their benefits are absolutely great. But they still have high driver turnover. Lots of folks get their CDL from Halliburton, then jump ship. Screw the benefits, get me the big payday!Desert_3agle, CJ701 and Crude Truckin' Thank this. -
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