Need work? South Texas Oilfield hiring like crazy!

anyone know who i can hook up with in south texas to work im a o/o with a indump trailer and a 1ton truck with a 40 float any info would be great.

thanks

 

Thank you very helpful.info. I just got my cdl. I just might jump into vaccum.

 

I read you worked for Texas Energy. Talked with them on the phone about a job they seemed interested. Said they would email an application never got it. Called them back said they would again still haven't gotten one. I don't want to come across as being to pushy if they are just really busy but wondering if they really are interested. In your experience where they slow about getting back with you?

 

I see a common problem.
Driver shortage and no place to live if you do take the job.
Companies not offering housing or housing allowance to the drivers.
The North Dakota problem will soon be in Texas.
I live on the east coast but not going to uproot the wife for a temporary oil field job.

 

Don't see what the big deal is if the truck has a sleeper on it.

 

The problem is that most operations run 24 hours a day with two 12 hour shifts so the sleeper isn't available for housing even if it has a sleeper.

Even if it were a standard practice, I'm not sure how well you would sleep on many of the lease roads.

 

That's ok, I don't run team anyway. If someone was willing to buy a camper and go up there to live in it, why not just buy a truck and use your house to make money? Plenty of quiet landscape to park in when you're not running. There was a real nice K100 on ebay with the big cam cummins 400, went for $8k I think, if it met reserve.

 

Having owned a couple of trucks, if it were that easy, I would be doing it. If you don't have a trailer, you are at the mercy of scalpers who do. They have a contract and a trailer and want about 35% of the contract. That amounts to about all the profit and leaves you with little more than cost of operation and driver wages.

A $10,000 truck would probably last almost the 45 - 60 days it takes to get your first check. The contracts call for (require) a 24/7/365 truck operation. The company you lease to isn't making the money they want unless the truck is always running. So if you have the $30,000 - $40,000 to pay fuel, repairs, maintenance and wages until you get a check you might survive. If you can find a trailer, a 6 - 8 year old trailer sells for about what it cost new. You will have trouble finding one new enough to finance.

You can have a new crude oil trailer if you want to put a $10,000 deposit on it and wait until March or April for delivery when you will put about another $10,000 down and finance the balance at $1800 - $2100 per month.

There are several parked trucks whose owners thought they could do this on a shoestring budget. There are also several small outfits that have long since gone out of business. A few of the lucky ones leased their trucks to a company that had operating capital. I have personally spoken with the truck pusher of one of these outfits.

On the TTR Forum, you read all the time that you need $20,000 to get your authority and start an OTR operation. I agree with that. My projections say to start a successful oilfield operation you need at least $50,000 for one truck and trailer.

At age 54 I can tell you the old saying, "You need money to make money" is quite true. In all the business endeavors I have participated in, I have always made an amount proportionate to the amount I invested. Sure, every once in a while some hard-working guy gets lucky and leverages a small investment into a large Corporation. Through hard work, good business decisions and loads of luck, he makes the big-time. Trust me, the path he travels to success is paved with hundreds that made the exact same choices and lost everything.

Now I'm not saying you shouldn't give it a try if you're young, healthy, have a little cash and you're willing to lose everything and start over if you fail (I have started over several times). I'm just saying if you go into this not knowing what is needed, how unlikely success is especially without proper operating capital and the cost of failure then you don't have a chance anyway.

I think the way to do it is work the oilfield for a couple of years. Live on what you would make from an OTR job and save the rest. In two years you will have the experience, contacts and cash to make a successful start. You can take your time finding a good truck and order a trailer when you have the cash. With your own oilfield equipment, you might make about two and a half times what you can make in driver's wages but the truck will have to run at least 140 - 150 hours a week (out of 168 ). You can also lose everything if it goes south (been there, done that in an OTR operation).

The chance to do this is what makes the US the great country it is. Just do your research and be realistic in your approach and expectations.

 

Eh, I'm not that determined to run my truck into the ground, assuming I can get one. Running pipe up there on a flatbed pays well and we have a bunch of hay to haul back out, so I'd just stick with that.

 

BigJohn54
If you are thinking about being o/o you better reread what he said. The man is speaking the truth. Drive for some one and learn the trade and your chance to make improve greatly.