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

I have to ask this!! You said in one of your earlier posts that you get to take your truck home. Assuming the truck your describing in your latest post is a ''honey truck.'' Does the smell from the truck overwhelms your RV park??

 

Hello,

Anyone have any information on Maxum Petroleum
applied for there onsite fueling with them. Any information
would be great.

 

Had a buddy that worked for Maxum for a while in south Texas.

As far as driving, not a lot. They preposition trucks at well sites and fuel the equipment until the job is finished, which can last from four to as many as fifteen days. Peeps that do the onsite fueling work twelve hour shifts, and the company puts them up in a hotel. A tanker comes by every day or so and tops off the fuel truck on site. Usually have two, one on each side so ya don't have to move the truck around.

When the job is finished, you take the truck to another site, and since there are so many wells going in south Texas at the time the drive is usually only about ten or so miles. My buddy had anywhere from three to six days off between each job. He was assigned to one fracing crew and when they worked, he worked. They kept him busy, but his time off was eratic and he wanted something more stable. He works for one of the crude haulers now five days on two off.

I had an interview with them in San Antonio about a month ago and thought it was funny as they require a class A with hazmat and tanker, but the on site fuel trucks are not combination and I know for a fact they have some guys that haven't been able to get the hazmat endorsement, and when it is time to change job sites, they send out a driver to move the truck to the next site.

 

Thanks for the information kwayne, I will be head down form California next week to interview with maxim. That, may work for me. As I will need a few months before I can find a place and call Texas
my full time home. Really looking for something in the corpus area. But will see once I have feet on the ground .

 

Kwayne
what kind of money did your buddy make working at maxum
if you don't mind me asking .

 

He was making 15 and hour, no overtime for over forty, but they let him clock fifteen hours a day, even if he only worked twelve. He got thirty a day per diem, he was given his own room in a hotel.

If he worked a whole week, he would get paid for 105 hours while working less than 84. He was allowed to bring his own truck to the job site if he wanted or he could park at the hotel and Maxum provided a company truck to swap out with the other fuelers.

 

I wanna know how paulcouto made the 140k a year driving.. wheres the locations to do that after a year or two.. I know its the oil fields, but wow, what companies

 

I've been told by a couple of guys they were offered 26 and hour to haul crude in North Dakota.

If a driver could get on with a company that worked him five days on and one day off for reset and clock 14 hours a day, that would average out to 84 a week. With the way crude haulers work it would probably give him less than ten hours a day driving so they wouldn't have to worry about HOS violations.

At 26 and hour with time and a half on OT, if a driver worked 52 weeks that would come out to 141k in a year.

But, that is with no breaks other than the one day off after each five working. I know personally from my time working for a contractor in the 'raq I couldn't do it. And if someone else could, you are more of a man than me.

 

what companies are paying 26 and more for tankers? are they in california, Pennslvania, New york, Texas, New Jersey? Ohio?

 

North Dakota.