Schlumberger J Questions

That does not seem like great pay for the oilfield if you are going to be limited to 70 hrs a week

 

^^^ If you see something like that, quickly turn around. Newbs to the trucking industry can easily be taken advantage of. Just a warning.

In all seriousness, that pay definitely looks below what I’ve heard to be typical. And, they’ll work the dog out of you, dude.

 

That works out to 50k ish a year. Totally not worth it when you have do deal with all the stuff that comes from working in the patch. You can do better than that at most any ltl company while sleeping in your own bed at night.

If you just want to drive. The patch isn't the money maker it once was. The real money is found outside of the truck after working your way up the ranks. If that's what you want cement is probably the better starting point plus you'll start off making more to begin with.

Keep in mind too. The oilfield is boom and bust. The job might be here today and gone tomorrow. When they start stacking rigs plenty of them fancy lifted trucks end up with the repo man. If you go oilfield save your money and keep your debt low so that when it crashes (and it will) you'll be able to bounce instead of splat.

 

You will get more miles running that pump than driving the truck that pulls it..

 

Seems like low pay for the bay you’re gonna get treated doing oilfield work and living in a man camp .

but I’m sure it would be good experience .

@Chinatown is the expert for suggesting a company to match what kind of driving you want to do

what general location do you live ?
Have a wife kids dog etc ?
How often do you want to be home ?
What’s your driving history ?
How many accidents and tickets?
Criminal convictions ?
Which endorsements do you have on your CDL ?

 

That's way low pay. Like poverty wages for the oil field.

In comparison, I was working at a smaller oilfield services company nearly a decade ago, 70-80 hours/week, 5/1 schedule (rotating day off), and made $5-6/hr more than this (adjusted for inflation, it would be $11-12 more per hour) plus company-paid BC/BS family coverage. All I was initially hired to do was haul water, but those with an X and showed the ability to actually think while on the job would be quickly promoted, so I went from production water to fresh water to invert to hydrovac to crude oil, all in the first 9 months out there.

 

A lot of the ‘big players’ in the oil patch, start you off with a low pay scale, supposedly the ‘benefits’ are top notch.
Fully paid health insurance on day one, paid company housing w/meals, etc. Uniforms w/company paid laundry.

 

I can see they haven't raised their wages any from 5+ years ago. I worked alongside Schlumberger with a 3rd party company doing bulk cement and moving frac equipment around. When we were busy we made more than the Schlumberger guys did and worked half as hard as they did. Didn't have to rig up/down. Just drag a few hoses and blow off the cement