No Experience CDL permit Oil Field?

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High turnover as a driver in the oil field because the hours and lifestyle suck. You run your arse off for a few days then sit, or sit waiting to load and unload then are expected to work around the clock to get the job done. Oil field has their own hours of service that basically let you sit waiting all day off-duty then work for a full day. The pay is good until you consider everything that goes into it, yet I know many guys that love it.

 

I bolded your answer.

 

means you'll have to work at it a while for that thing called experience.

 

Oilfield work is not easy. Is coming in at 2am to work and getting off at 4pm sound good to you? A lot of people end up quitting after doing rig ups or downs. It's hard labor. Yes there are many times were you sit and wait and still get paid but if you're just starting out it's a beating.

Oilfield work is work, sleep, work, sleep. 14 to 21 days straight of doing that before going home.

 

As others have noted, oil field work has ALL of the "Three D's": dirty, difficult, and dangerous. If you want to be well paid, then consider a job with one or more. Think "outside the box" (dry van with no touch freight).

Right now major oil companies can't hire enough drivers. I pull flatbed to the oil patch and I love it. At times even owner operators like me are pressed into service doing "drive away", driving another company's truck under contract from point A to point B and getting paid well to do it.

You have to have fire resistant clothing, hard hat, steel toed boots, and an H2S (hydrogen sulfide) monitor. You have to love the concept of churning through foot deep mud for miles or going through flash floods. Ice storm? You're running.

When I do drive away all the trucks are slip seat, there's no such thing as an assigned truck. They are dirty and at times so beat up from the rough dirt roads and rookies behind the wheel thinking it's okay to drive at speed, parts are falling off.

This isn't hand holding time. You bring your tools and deal with it. Throw a couple of zip ties and bungie cords to secure whatever might fall off and carry on.

If you want to drive a pretty, spotless rig this job isn't for you. If you get a raging hard on if your GPS announces "10 miles of dirt road ahead", then you might be in hog heaven.

 

Where is the job location?

 

according to the op, west texas

 

How soon are they looking for someone?