Oil and Water Jobs in Central and Northern Oklahoma

Someone sent me a PM regarding my signature. Yes, it's true... one can hop a plane in Minot and be in a tropical climate in just hours (if you don't count the Denver or MSP layover). I know guys who fly to Mexico every three months for a week. Others go to Miami or the Keys. They come back with a tan and look quite out of place among the lily-white faces here in zero UV country... but they are geared up and ready to roll for another three months, always voicing the number of days remaining until they can return to their paradise.

I just enjoy being home.

 

Yes! Costco opened a few months ago in West Fargo. My wife is looking forward to getting back there. She says the meat and fish is MUCH better than Wally-World. I like the big sizes of everything.

Will return to the Bakken next week to get back to work and work off some of the Southern cooking I have recently absorbed. Hope to work with a nice O/O who needs an honest hard worker... that's me. I hope he is about ready.

 

Owner-operators pay more. I have 3 yrs up here, hauling water and oil, with nothing against my golden ticket or personal record. Most I have seen for a 12-hour slip-seat water job from a big firm is $340/day plus quarterly safety bonus (which is never considered compensation, because it is strictly "maybe money" subject to other people's opinions and emotions). Most I have seen for the same, hauling oil, is between $350-$400/day on commission (more maybe money), rushing and cutting safety corners to get in one more load, and maybe cutting into the night guy's hours. No thanks.

I will not work on commission, which essentially rules out me driving crude oil in the Bakken. Those oil settlement sheets can be manipulated with ease, and I prefer to work the hours and KNOW what my check will be. There is no incentive to be safe when working on commission, and my golden ticket is far more valuable to me than any safety bonus. So, no thanks to any driving position paid by commission or by the mile.

I have been working safety enforcement over a few dozen trucks for a small firm down in OK (nearest Costco is 4 hours away in Dallas), and while the pickup and home living are preferable to a semi and sleeper, the money down in the warmer South left me cold. Hence, my pending return to the Bakken, probably to haul flowback or oil... BY THE HOUR.

 

BACK IN THE BAKKEN

Well, I picked a doosie of a day to return on the patch. Wind chill of -49. But hey, no complaints... this is why there is little job competition and high wages up here, the way America used to be.