Halliburton paying 120k per year for CDL work?

Yep true dat true dat met a dude when i was on my H2b visa over in the USA back in 2005 he was from South Africa and had done the Halliburton thing in Kuwait - Iraq he was telling me how he to had been enticed by the huge sums of money being paid anyway he was driving in one convoy escorted by Humvee's and APC's and out of the blue in the middle of the desert someone jumps up with a RPG fires straight into the truck in front of him, takes out the whole front end of the truck he told me it scared the bleeep bleep out of him and decided that day that all that money they were getting paid just wasn't worth it. And obtained the H2b visa to go work for Calark AR in a more peaceful environment in the good old US of A.

 

That last part is true so is the part where they hire from a temp agency. They use 3 party logistics for pretty much all of the driving aspect. I worked for a small company that was contracted to them. We did everything from move frac pumps and sand kings and pre-loaded all their cement jobs.

Its strange as big of a company as schlumberger is yet they had 3rd and trusted us to unload cement in the right silos and everything but pump the darn job

 

And we made more than the schlumberger guys. Some weeks we'd gross 2200+

 

If it is, it's not enough.

$300K , if you want me to risk my life in a civilian capacity.
Plus, I'm strapped, and the convoy is guarded.

 

The cell coverage in Iraq is quite good. There are places where a dual SIM card phone comes in handy when you need to switch from Zane to AsiaCell depending on the coverage. The only disadvantage is that everyone has two numbers.

The convoy is guarded by PSDs. Everything is under Iraqi law. If you hurt or kill any Iraqi,you're going to an Iraqi prison.

The risk depends on where the contract is. The Kurds lean more to wanting American oil companies to develop their fields. Kurdistan is a lot safer than the rest of Iraq. The odds of being killed or kidnapped by ISIS in Kurdistan is very low.
Halliburton has a contract with Shell to drill wells in southern Iraq. The odds of being killed by ISIS in southern Iraq are even slimmer than Kurdistan. Southern Iraq is 90% Shia Muslim. The only thing you'd have to worry about is being kidnapped by a Shia militia group trying to make a name for itself.

I doubt that Halliburton is desperate enough for American truck drivers to hire just anybody,especially paying more than KBR is in Iraq. Anybody with former LOGCAP experience would move to the front of the list.

 

Here is the Halliburton Middle East Job sit. They don't appear to be looking for truck drivers.

Middle East & North Africa (MENA)

Here is the KBR Iraq site. I haven't talked to any of them but from what I hear,the pay isn't what it used to be. I'm guessing less than $60,000.

KBR Jobs - Truck Jobs in Iraq

 

Halliburton shipped my ### all over the world. Not once did I ever have a visa that allowed me to drive a heavy truck. The closest I ever came was a 6x6 in Australia.

 

Where does one go to get a 300k job overseas

 

You would not ever get 300k a monthly or yearly unless your running drugs or arms, as kemosabi49 pointed out back then I was working in as a cook making more than I ever could here in the US. But moreover, it was a great experience that I made friends with the locals learned a new trade to make quality clothing and coats the fellow I learned from took great pride in his work. He showed me other ways of making money involving gems legally of course though you walk into the wrong region by mistake you will have broken a law which sounds hard but it's really not in some areas.

Keep in mind any fool who goes there on a whim and you sign a contract that with a company over there you will have guards, those guards aren't really there to protect you as much to keep you working and on time if you decide to leave prior your contract up they will not let you leave. There have been many people who do this and get screwed basically fulfill your contract I recommend you read it very carefully.