@beammeup: I am saying people were making that money before Schneider came in the game.
If you like I can give you phone numbers of 3-4 people that can confirm the validity of my claim. And I know of them will even let you see his paystub!
Schneider Oil Field Truck Driver Jobs/ The Texas shales and beyond
Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by Rockdoctor, Jun 4, 2012.
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I do not take offense to any opinions posted regarding rates or payscales. I'm a free market individual and feel labor and management can work those issues out and therefore I will avoid saying who has a "right" to be in the energy patch.
As I stated before, I started this thread to try and help newbies and OTR drivers who didn't want to drive OTR a forum to consider the alternative- the energy patch. While I regret I may have shed too much light on Schneider, we have also identified others like Stallion, Basic, and Key who will take a newbie and provide them with a place to gain experience and a great paycheck, relative to other trucking jobs.
Yes Schneider downsized again and I was set to be laid off on OCT 1st. I received another crude hauling offer the day before this news came to me and I have moved on. I have traded in my "Eagle Ford" for a "Wood Ford" and plan to post more about that opportunity in the future, but for now I will keep that company name private. As long as you have a clean record and a desire to work, the jobs are out there!wowo6057, Ben Gunn, HeWhoMustNotBeNamed and 1 other person Thank this. -
Good luck out there, dude. I'm planning to stick around for a while so that I can take care of some other things, but I'm sure a lot of guys learned a lesson about the industry down here, maybe just not the one they expected to.
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joelyblonde said: ↑JazzTX said: ↑Last year around this time of the year, IN TEXAS, owner op's hauling frac sand to well sites were making $4,000 to $11,000 NET per week. Driver's were making $1,400 to $3,200 per week.I'm curious Jazz... as I would like to look at o/o one day. When you say NET, I'm assuming this is just post taxes... my question is: Doesn't he still have to pay health insurance, truck maintenance, etc from that remaining NET amount?
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Thank you Rockdoctor for the information. This business was mentioned to me yesterday and I have been searching for the information i need to begin my process in applying for a driver position in Texas. Are you still in touch with the recruiter that got you started in this business of transporting shale rock?
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Rockdoctor said: ↑I love it fungirl!!! So happy to hear it worked out for y'all. You will like living in South TX much better than West TX in my opinion. You are right, when you get further West things get more spread out. Now you can visit San Antonio, Austin, Corpus, Houston, etc with just a little bit of driving.
I was pleased to hear the lady at Nabors gave your husband some good info about where to apply with little to no experience. I went to a job fair before I got the job I have now and everyone wanted 2 years CDL A experience but no one would tell me the name of a company that would hire me right out of CDL school. Gives me a lot more respect for Nabors.
I hope your husband enjoys working for Basic Energy and do check in from time to time to let us know how it is going.Click to expand...
Oh ya, he said when looking around at other jobs they all wanted to see he had a TX license. What is up with that? I thought you could do that later.....Oh well. -
Tanzanite said: ↑Thank you Rockdoctor for the information. This business was mentioned to me yesterday and I have been searching for the information i need to begin my process in applying for a driver position in Texas. Are you still in touch with the recruiter that got you started in this business of transporting shale rock?Click to expand...
Rockdoctor said: ↑...... received another crude hauling offer the day before this news came to me and I have moved on........Click to expand...
there are businesses transporting shale rock as part of the activity
fungirl said: ↑...Oh ya, he said when looking around at other jobs they all wanted to see he had a TX license. What is up with that? I thought you could do that later.....Oh well.Click to expand...
twobeef said: ↑... sure a lot of guys learned a lesson about the industry ....Click to expand... -
The last chapter in the story, for those of you that like watching train wrecks...
A couple of weeks ago, we were told by corporate to cut down to 50 drivers on the account. A lot of people who were supposed to stay ended up quitting anyway, so some of the people that were laid off were instantly rehired to fill the gaps. However, the work started to slow for those of us that stayed. The last two weeks, no one worked a full five days, and the client had site issues that caused them to shut down for a weekend.
Then the new bomb hit. On Monday, there was a managers' meeting in the afternoon. Immediately after that, the business leaders called half of the drivers that were left to lay them off, effective at the end of the week. The client told us that they would only support 23 drivers on the account from there on out. That would be the third time the staff was cut in half. On top of that, it sounds like any other drivers who quit aren't going to be replaced.
The account is officially circling the drain. The worst part is that the drivers laid off in the first round got the easiest time of finding work, and now the rest of us are gonna have to hunt for whatever jobs are left. The total breakdown of communication hasn't been a picnic, either.
Yesterday was the last day of work for another twenty people. Expect additional anger running around the city of Victoria.Ben Gunn Thanks this. -
What??? I just KNEW that was getting straightened out and I would be called back at any moment. lol Seriously, when I landed in Victoria with Schneider, I anticipated working for them for some years to come hauling crude in that area. Not quite 4 months later, that came to an end.
You could be right......dumping almost two hundred drivers on the street in one area might make it a little more difficult to gat a job. For that type work anyway.
Is more of the crude going to pipeline OR other carriers?
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