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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stepanahalf, post: 2123907, member: 66622&quot;]Okay, so the job is going well.&nbsp; Schneider seems to be ramping up the hiring.&nbsp; We heard advertisements on the radio in Laredo and San Antonio.&nbsp; Observers came from Green Bay(Schneider headquarters) and New York to watch and learn more about this job.&nbsp;&nbsp; They joined us on a mobilization/demobilization trip as well as a cement delivery to a rig site.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is starting to get more busy but I still sometimes have one to three days off at a time.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been spending a lot of time riding in the &quot;chase&quot; car out to well sites and Schlumberger terminals 2-3 hours away not including an hour or more driving on the lease road.&nbsp; Last week I worked on a job which required me to move two trucks 3.8 miles each from one well site to another.&nbsp; It was at least a 12 hour day.&nbsp; Basically got dispatched to Leming at 7:15 a.m. then were told the trucks wouldn&#039;t be ready until 11:30 a.m.&nbsp; The site was about 1.5 hours away near Tilden, Tx.&nbsp; We arrived at the site and didn&#039;t get our first truck to move until after 2 p.m.</p><p><br /></p><p>There tend to be mostly minor issues with a large percentage of the trucks.&nbsp; I would say mostly lights not working.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have moved a couple of flatbeds (i&#039;ve never driven flatbeds before) and they usually have some loose straps or cargo that isn&#039;t secured properly.&nbsp; Sometimes the air conditioning doesn&#039;t cool even in brand new trucks with a couple thousand miles on them.&nbsp; It&#039;s not that big a deal but it has been 110 degrees last weekend and consistently over 100 here lately.&nbsp; We definitely need to carry lots of water on these runs.</p><p><br /></p><p>We picked up almost 40 trucks from one hydraulic fracturing operation a couple of weeks ago.&nbsp; They were a big mess.&nbsp; The trucks including windshields and mirrors were covered dirt.&nbsp; Even the inside of the cabs were covered in a thick layer of dust.&nbsp; Trash can be found laying anywhere and everywhere on the truck and trailer including inside the cab.&nbsp; Water and soda(pop) bottles and food wrappers.&nbsp; I found a fuel filter full of diesel laying on the trailer.&nbsp; Sticky contaminated gloves and stuff like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>We are expected to clean out the cabs and sweep them out.&nbsp; We also wash down and fuel the trucks whenever delivering them to the Schlumberger yards.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Leming yard is closing (i believe) soon and they are opening a new yard in San Antonio(Von Ormy).&nbsp; The wash bay is sometimes out of commission at Leming.&nbsp; Also one of the two fuel pumps is broken or out of diesel and the other pump was pumping so slow the other day a Schlumberger employee said he had been there fueling his trailer for 45 minutes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not trying to be positive or negative about my experience so far.&nbsp; I am just describing what I have seen.&nbsp; This type of work is new to me and very interesting.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am looking forward to milder weather however.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well I have today and the next three days off.&nbsp; I&#039;ll be taking my wife to the hospital in the morning so she can have her baby.&nbsp; It&#039;s my first and her third.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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