I'm a stone cold rookie, gonna work the texas oil fields

I had a class B about 16 years ago and drove a bobtail for a concrete/asphault company.....so other than that, no experience at all. I just reinvented myself, like obama said i should do and went to cdl school. I didnt care for the prospects the school were trying to point me towards (ohhh paul, werner and swift etc. are great companies, go apply with them blah blah) I'd tell them my research on these otr companies didnt look so hot (oh paul, dont listen to what people are saying) even though my research leaned towards the overwhelming side of these otr companies for rookies basically sucked.......so i just dug further because my instinct said otr was not the way to go.


So here i am now in the oil field wich was a perfect fit for me.

Ok guys, got my two day weekend off but i chose to work today and just take sunday off. I like my job and i hate sitting around doing nothing, i did enough of that for a few years, i'd rather work.

 

I think you mis-read it, i said "16 years ago". It was a bobtail with an automatic transmission and hydraulic brakes. I hauled a little trailer behind it and the GVWR required a class B. Just to be clear, i did that job for a few years and my class B license expired about 14 years ago i'd say.

Trust me, i got zero experience at driving a rig and less than zero experience in the oil field.

 

Lol yes i knew my statement would bite me in the ### but please remember i am not an ambassador for the oil field. I can only go by my research and what other drivers and co-workers have said.

There are guys here that have been driving vaccuum trucks for 20+ years with a few slow downs here and there. I know that the bottom drops out in this buisness but what buisness doesnt? My research shows that there is always a place that seems to be booming or busy or hiring......so what am i supposed to think or say? The oil buissness sounds pretty solid to me.

Perhaps i should have said these driving jobs arent going away as far as i can see if youre willing to move around. I know many people cant do this and i apologize.

Whatever, i'm probably still putting my foot in my mouth but i dont care. I'm just some guy who found out theres work for rookie drivers and the availability sounded too good to be true. The more i investigated, the more real it appeared. I noticed others felt the same apprehension and i decided to jump head first and write down my experience so others could see first hand that it definately is REAL.

Hey, if the bottom drops out all over, then the bottom drops. All i know is there is work here, there has been work here for years and years and for alot of us who have been struggling to get a job at mcdonalds, i think this oil field work is a great avenue to feel like a working human being however long it lasts......its better than unemployment or being broke.

I really dont understand the respect thing, everyone here seems fine to me. A supervisor can respect you all they want but if the company has to let you go then they have to let you go. They cant squeeze blood out of a turnip. Also, i think you have to be flexible in this "new america". Everything moves alot faster and the company loyalty to their employees is disappearing more and more. Perhaps many of us have to become more and more nomadic, i know i definately am.

Really, at this point i'm thrilled to have a job where the management doesnt bug me, thats all the respect i personally need. I was supposed to have the weekend off but i asked my super if i could work today and he said no problem. Sounds good enough to me.

 

lol, just got this sent to me from one of my trainers while i was "hard at it" in the passenger seat on a four hour drive back to the yard.

.....oh, and got to throw in the gratuitous butt pic as well.