Oil field bouncing back ?

That gel had to be the easiest money ever. Thanks to one customer there was a time we had as many as 5 trucks staged and waiting on the clock at the truck stop in Glendive at customer's request, sitting and waiting to go to location and then one or two trucks at the location. It's a shame they are all starting to switch to dry powder equipment.

 

You are right about that. The only problem with wet gel was cleaning out the tankers so we switched to hauling it in pneumatics and could get a 90% clean out on location. The frac outfits figured out how to cut that expense tho by going to dry gel.

 

I first started hauling it as a contractor in a stainless vac tanker. Got impatient waiting for the plant to give me a mineral oil rinse and tried to wash it with water, not knowing what would happen. It took me almost a week of ten hour days to get that trailer cleaned. What a mess. Eventually I jumped ship and went to work for the company that made/shipped the gel. We learned it worked much better to use double conical trailers for gel, the buildup in the bottom of the trailers was minimal compared to a rear discharge trailer. I never thought of hauling it in a pneumatic.

 

Double conicals work good too I just never liked having to squeegee the product to the center. Biggest problem with a Pnuematic was having to swap hoses when a pod was empty but other than that they worked good. We used our blowers to turn the product and keep it mixed as well as pressure to unload. And yea water is the wrong thing to use as a cleaner. Which gel outfit did you work for??

 

Optiblend. You?

 

Figured it was Opti. I never hauled any of their product. We hauled mainly Benchmark and a little bit for Economy.

 

I do miss fluid hauling somedays, although it sucked when everything was frozen

 

I have two newer freightliner cascadia day cab trucks. I own both of them, I'm looking for some good company's to get on in either ND orTX. I do not have tankers so I would have to rent or lease from the company's . Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

 

Hauling crude or water?

 

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