Physical demands of oilfield driving (age 38 too old)?
Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by Zonno, Aug 8, 2025.
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The water hauling is more just hauling off too, climbing steps on a crappy catwalk rusted as hell, catwalk, we didnt have fat people on them, but I imagine a fat person would have fell through some these sites when measuring tank levels. Cleaning up areas also part the job take a hose and put in a spill area or heavy rain till empty. People dont say all the dangerous or stuff involved i mean if your willing to risk it do it but oil field will ask you do all kinds stuff a normal driver would say no my boss would pay any and all tickets not related to speeding because they knew the garbage equipment they send us with and thats not unanimaous with my company its everywhere they cut corners. Sand hauling is much faster pace and and not worth all that effort for the returns also getting paid by load is all well and good but sometimes you sit alot and your lose your ### those days and or weeks. I prefer hourly got 100-hour weeks after a while i dropped down to something manageable 75-80s just. We had one spot they didnt warn me was heavy heavy h2s because I was new at time well wind apparently changed directions. I woke up 10 minutes later on the ground. My alarm didn't go off fast enough it changed back, thankfully, or that would have ended much worse when I woke up i got the hell out of there apprently everyone else avoided servicing that place I joined the club and never set foot there again and my boss never asked me again to service them.
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Is it pretty easy to find work up in ND these days? I also just turned 50.
I'm planning on staying OTR probably for the next year or two, but already thinking I want a new challenge after that and my head keeps coming back to oilfield.Trucker61016 Thanks this.
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