Reality Check

Aren't you the guy in Waco Texas.

 

I've done frac sand for a few months.
Got a lot of friends who've also done frac sand for
A few months.
None of us do or will do frac sand again.

Let me tell you how this is gonna play out.
Happened to everyone of us.
You might make 1500 a week,
You might make 700,
You might make 2000.
You never know,depends on the work they have.

But let's say you make the 1500 they said you could.
You work a month straight,that's 6 grand gross.
They call you up,tell you to go home and they'll
Call You when something else comes up.

2 unpaid weeks later the phone rings out of the blue.
Drop whatever your doing immediately, and haul ###
To some silo a hundred miles away so you can get
A load of sand to deliver somewhere in the middle
Of nowhere as soon as you can get there.

There's only x amount of loads per frac.
The fastest guy who gets the most loads makes
The most money. Log book be dammed.
That's why you always see the them in Texas
2 or 3 deep in the left lane hauling ###.

It's a race of who can drive the fastest and stay up
The longest without stopping for anything but to
Load or unload until the fracking is done.
You sleep while waiting in line to load or unload.

Everything else is done after the well is fracked.
You want to stop and eat and take a shower,fine.
Another driver just took one of your loads.
And you get paid by the load.
They don't care who gets it, as long as it gets there.

So you get rolling again after sitting home 2 weeks with no pay. But this is only a 3 day frac, you squeeze a
Grand out of it and go back home and wait for the
Phone to ring again.

They might call 3 days later or another 2 two weeks
Later. You never know.
Here's the problem.
I've got friends who made 2000 grand a week during
The boom doing frac sand.
Once the worked slowed down, they wouldn't do anything
Else for less money.
They sat by that phone waiting for it to ring for weeks
On end until they were flat broke and pissed off.

Moral of the story. If your gonna do sand
You better be on a tight budget.
Live below what you make.
If you need a dependable paycheck everyweek
This is not it.

 

Well where do you live in central Texas.
That could be a whole lot of places.
Temple. Your somewhere around there.

 

There is no such thing as a set schedule doing frac sand.
If they tell you 3 weeks on 1 week off that just means
Your available for those 3 weeks.
It doesn't mean you will be raking in the money for
Those three weeks.
What if you only get 2 weeks of work out of those
3 weeks, but now your supposed to go home for
A week but you need the money.
See what I'm saying here.

Your company has no control over fracking.
When,where,what time, how much, nothing.
There just supplying trucks to the big oil companies
That own and run everything.

Thier waiting by the phone just like you.
But they need you available so when the phone rings
For x amount of trucks. You guys are ready to roll.
Immediately. Time is money.


If they call you at home to work and you tell them
I'll be back in a couple days.
The next time around, if there is one,your gonna
Be the last one called.

There gonna call the guys who make them the most
Money first. The guys who know how to play
The frac sand game.
Always get the money while it's there in frac sand.
You never know how long it's gonna be in between
One frac to the next.
Don't worry about home time.
Your gonna be there more than you want.

 

If there's a problem and they have to stop fracking,
You sit on the leased road until they start up again.
During the real boom times everybody used to get
Paid hourly while this happened.

Hardly anyone pays this anymore is why most
Of us won't do it. Could be 10 hours or 2 days.

Fracking is done in stages. The more stages,
The more loads,the more money to be made.
Some are big, some are small.
There all different.

Example: it's a five truck, 25 stage frac.
It could be a hundred stage,but any hoot let's keep going
Every 5 trucks is one stage.
That's 5 loads times 25.
That's 125 loads of sand for that frac.

5 trucks at a time all line up and unload at the same time.
When your done he'll either tell you to go get another
One or not. The people in charge of the fracking,not
You company.
That's one stage. They do that 25 times and that well
Is done.
Your no longer needed, it's water and oil guys from
There on out.

Now for your part.
The big shots running this whole thing
Need, we'll just say 25 trucks for this frac.
25 trucks divided by 125 loads.
That's five loads apiece for everybody right.

Wrong.thats 125 loads of sand they want delivered
As fast as they can get there. They don't care if
You only get 2 loads and the other guy gets 7.

So big oilfield company calls your company
And gets 5 trucks.
They get 5 trucks apiece from a couple of other companies. To round out the 25.

Your company is not the only one working the frac.
The other guys are trying to get every penny just like you.
The race is on,sleep,shower,cleaning out the garbage,
Whatever will all have to wait.
Every load lost is taken by the competition,
And revenue lost to the truck.

They are not gonna let that truck sit and do
Nothing if there's fracking going on.
It's too much money lost that they can't get back.
When they call you, that truck has already been assigned
To that frac and promised to that big oil company.
Catching my drift now.
They don't ask you first.

They ask for 10 trucks and only 7 show up,
There's gonna be a problem.
They might not call at all the next time,just to
Show you who's in charge.

And one thing no one in the oilfield wants to do is
Get on the wrong side of the big shots.
They run everything and everyone.
They can ban a driver or a whole company from all of their sites,Putting them out of business.

 

Doing frac is sand is like being a outlaw cowboy
In the old west. Your gotta break all the rules
If you want to make the money.
It's why some guys/gals love it.
It's giving the DOT and all their rules and regulations
The middle finger and getting away with it.

It's outlaw beyond outlaw.
Especially if they got a lot of work.
Once the fracking process starts there is no stopping
Until it's completely fracked. Unless there's a problem.
That's why they order so many trucks,so there's always
Some of them waiting in line to unload.

The only civilized part of it, is when your sitting on
The leased road waiting to unload.
That's when you get some sleep.
Nobody cuts the line,that's no different than stealing
Money from him. Because that's exactly what your doing.

The man running the fracking will come out and wake you up. He'll either tell you to go in or move up.
They know that's the only time you get to sleep.

If me and you get unloaded together and we both
Have to go get anther load.
They could send me 30 miles away to a silo to get mine.
They could send you 60 miles away to a rail yard to get
Yours. You never know.
But if you beat 10 guys back to the site and hop in
Line, you might get 1 more load then them before
The fracking is done.
That's another 400 bucks in your paycheck.

Nobody's gonna tell you all this ####.
That's why I am. So you'll be prepared.
After going 5 days straight with only 3/4 hours
Sleep your gonna look forward to a couple of
Days downtime. Trust me.

At its peak frac sand money is sick.
More than all the other driving jobs.
Oilfield or otherwise.
Problem is you never know when it's
Coming are going.

I sent you a private message for a job
That's 10 times better than what your
Other options are.
Way better,with the money and home time your
Looking for. I don't normally do that.
But you live in the perfect spot for them and I try save
Anyone from Doing frac sand.
the feast or famine thing gets old real quick.
You'll go crazy with your budget.
Don't buy anything big that you to make
Payments on.

If your interested in a real job with stability,
Time off and oilfield money. Send me a pm.
And do it legally without risking your CDL.