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Yes and he is right about this. I just got back from there and my cousin said there was so much work there. BUT there is a housing shortage and many of the guys are living in the hotels there. The Midland paper is online with the classifieds do a search on newspapers for Midland Texas and you will find it.

 

TX Transco has a large yard on 171 in Cresson if you are going to drive it. Chaney is a large rock hauler that has gotten into water hauling. There are numerous others in Decatur on 287, Bridgeport on 380, Jacksboro on 199 and many many more. Down south of town Alvarado, Burleson, Cleburne, Midolothian, and many others. Good luck.

 

I just finished school last week and will be knocking on doors starting next week,,any ideas on good places to start,,im in Dallas and can travle.

 

I would check out Raider Express in FT W. Texas Mike has been posting his experience with them and they are better than the big guys like Stevens, Schneider, Werner, Swift. More pay, better bosses, etc. Good luck to you.

 

Thankx Man,,,will look into them,,,also hopein to talk to some saltwater Co's,,like the idea of being home at nite, and the money sounds great. Long hours were never a prob for me.
NoFearSpear

 

NoFearSpear, I've been thinking this over while I drive around, wondered how many water hauling companies I could name. I know this will seem like overkill to you, just want to see how far I can get...

Stallion, Native, Total, Express, Key, Basic, Coffman, Southwestern, D & G Dozer, Texas Freight Relocators, Texas Transco, 3 Star Daylighting, Nabors, Barnett, Excalibur, Legacy, Shale, HLI, B & N, BEO, Chalk Mountain, Complete Vacuum, Swan, Phillips, APSI, Lonesome Dove, Turnkey, ROC, Tuttle & Tuttle, Pinnergy, Trinity...man, I'm missing a lot of them.

Most of these yards are focused around Cresson, Cleburne, or Decatur/Bridgeport. Your best bet is pick which of those three areas you want to drive to every day and then go hunting. For Cresson, drive down 171 from Weatherford down through Godley. For Cleburne, run down 67. For the area around Decatur and Bridgeport, check out 380.

I can make certain recommendations, but they will really vary from person to person. A driver with no driving experience could probably get on easiest with a smaller outfit like Phillips or Legacy for example. An experienced driver would want to shoot for Nabors or Stallion, one of the more well rounded companies.

I can also name some companies that can have really big fluctuations in workload, which can either lead to you being bored (Transco, their drivers get their hours but do a lot of driving around guaging wells) or being sent home early a lot. The nature of the beast with waterhauling is that the work goes up and down, you'll be busting your rear one week, dead the next, you can't get away from that, but you can find some companies it doesn't affect as badly.

Having said that, there's not a whole heck of a lot of difference between one water hauling company and another. The money's pretty close to the same, the benefits are generally pretty poor and none of the equipment is ever as nice as you want it. (Oh, side note: OTR drivers considering switching to the oilfield, especially hauling water, are in for a culture shock. These trucks are NOT maintained. Again, the nature of the beast) There's always some company up the street with a little more work or that is paying a little more an hour, and chasing that ends up not being worth it. Found that out myself.

If all else fails, try hanging out around one of the disposals and talking to different drivers as they come through. Find out how they like the people they work with. Find out how long they had to work nights before they got on days. Stuff like that. Just throwing random stuff out there...

 

Great info,,,thankx man ..i'll be hitting the streets in the A.M So if you see a guy on a streched Hayabusa roll'in from yard to yard it's me,,,lol.Cleburne first
NoFearSpear

 

Do a Google search and hunt down Bridgeport Tank Truck's Cleburne yard and Swan's Cleburne yard. Those should be a couple of good companies to start with.

 

Someone from my school gave me an application for a Co called Azurite, in Cleburne ,any word on them?
Again Thanks,
NoFearSpear

 

I've seen their trucks before, but not too often. They might run in different areas than I have. I would occasionally see them at Salty's in Cresson, but never spoke with the drivers. When you go around talking to these folks, ask them what areas they run in, who they haul for (Devon, Chesapeake, Encana, etc.), how many hours a week their drivers average, and how many loads a night a driver gets on a typical night. At first, none of this info will mean anything to you . However, not only does it make you look like you have a little bit of an idea of what's going on, as you talk to more and more companies you'll get a picture of the company by asking those questions.

Oh, and even though I said not to job-hop because all these companies are the same, don't get too attached to the first company that hires you. After you get about three months experience and get to know some drivers from other companies, you might bounce around a little to find the company that you fit in best with.

Earlier I mentioned Swan, their yard is in Glen Rose, not Cleburne, I was suffering from brain fade. It's still on 67, just further down. I don't remember who the other water hauler in Cleburne is that I'm thinking of, I had a particular company in mind...

Sorry I can't give you any more info on Azurite, but keep on asking any questions you need to!