If you want to work in the oilfield

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Hey Bret, Do you mind giving out some company names that do pneumatic out in the pad? I've been looking online but thinking of just heading there after festivities and seizing an opportunity. Thanks in advance

 

I'm at Detmar

 

I never got detention with boxes. I've gotten it with pneumatics though.

 

Hey @Bret1984.
I am thinking on applying to Detmar but I have California license. Do they hire from out of state?
Also, I haven't driven the last 2 years. Will this be a problem. Prior to that, I was OTR for 3 years.
Thanks in advance.

 

Look up the page on Facebook called Sand Haulers of America and Sand haulers of Texas.Companies post when they are hiring on there and you will see in the comments if it’s a crap company in the comments.

 

Out of state CDL won't be a problem. Being off the road for so long might be. Shoot them an app and see what happens. I just freed up a spot. I'm at CIG now.

 

try two or three

 

I tried working in the western North Dakota oil fields for a month (May-June 2023) and found it to be incredibly disappointing. I took a job with Bell Energy in Killdeer, ND due to the encouragement from one of their top drivers over the past 6 months. He talked me up about making a lot of money and all sorts of things but after I got up there I found out that there was a whole lot more to the story and I'm not surprised that he never mentioned any of these things otherwise I probably never would have gone there in the first place.

First of all my job was entirely dependent on how much work dispatch chose to assign me and how quickly the assigned me that work upon being ready to accept it. There or many shifts and which I waited for extended periods of time to get assignments which burned up my clock and my ability to earn. The loads themselves usually did not pay particularly well and were very time consuming to complete. Even the ones that did pay well were few and far between. I was lucky if I made $400 in a shift, which some see as a low amount. Most shifts I only made maybe $200-$300 over the course of a 12-hour shift, my low was $80 in one shift. After time weeks I started to think that this simply was not worth my time and effort and I could easily make just as much, if not more doing all sorts of other work elsewhere and not have to deal with the frustrations that come with working for this company.

Aside from what I've mentioned maintenance was a gigantic issue, it seems like all of the equipment always had a litany of problems that were only given Band-Aid fixes just so that the trucks could get back on the road so to earn profit for the company, that is until something catastrophic happened that would put them completely out of service. I became friends with one of the head mechanics there and he was constantly complaining about being severely overworked and never being able to catch up. In fact it seems like everyone was constantly complaining at the company no matter what job you did and I don't think it was complaining for the sake of complaining because most of what I heard people complain about was totally justified. Lots of turnover and lots of people that stuck with the company hoping that things would get better. Management kept telling me that things would get better over and over. Many were looking to hop the different companies and most had already hopped from another company to this one hoping for a better opportunity. Perhaps that's just the way of things in the oil field?

Many people told me that they had never seen a lack of available work as much as this calendar year. Maybe I just came up at a bad time but I do know that I'm looking forward to not going back. . With trucking I really enjoy traveling and the only thing that motivated me to go into the oil field was the potential to earn a lot of money which did not come close to happening and I daresay had no real potential of happening anytime soon.

 

Should of reached out to @bonder45 he is out of Williston,ND and based on the ad’s I’ve seen pays good money.Top notch equipment as well that I’ve seen in person.

 

Yeah he missed out with me…. Also I’m extremely picky on who I hire.