Schneider Oil Field Truck Driver Jobs/ The Texas shales and beyond

Rockdoctor is your huckleberry on that. I don't know.

 

Those SNI drivers in the fracking fleets are drive-away drivers. They move the equipment from site to site and get picked up in a van. They are on call 24/7 and don't make sheet. The ads I see for SNI crude drivers say they can make $60,000/yr. Plains, Blueknight, Oxy and all the other major crude oil haulers drivers make $80,000+...?? Unless I'm wrong about SNI pay, it sure seems like they are short changing their drivers....

 

For certain, an experienced driver can do better. Who knows what motivates people to make the choices they do.

 

If things continue as they are, I will make $ 138,000.00 hauling crude this year, so YES, SNI is not paying competitive wages.

 

gotta get there and see what real pay is, easy to say you make 10 billion an hour then get there and find out different.Plus there is a break in period, how much can a rookie make in these companies? Some may not hire with no oilfield exp. I hope to put in some time then transfer some where else, maybe one of the ones you talked about, dont know what I would do with 138k a year, save a lot I guess, or have a ton of toys. lol

 

Looking at some of the previous posts regarding pay....I'm sorry, BUT making $60,000 a year with hardly any experience....I'll take that. Seeing as how in my current job...I have 14 years experience and all that this MULTI-BILLION dollar health insurance company is willing to pay me is $28,000 a year! SNI is the place for me

 

"everyone I have met has made $220 (some make a little better) per day right out the gate."
Thanks RD, just trying to put all my ducks in a row, so to speak. Can not live on peanuts for a month. Will leave the wife and daughter behind until I find a place for them, then take a long weekend or what ever and come back and move them. Thats what I will need the 2500 for, figure I can get there on about 800 or so. I will stay in Victoria somewhere, looks like a nice town with a few of the main town things, Lowes - Target and a mall for my 17 year old. lol Add a nice home town church into that mix and we should be fine.
I was just told different from the recruiter, less money for longer and will need to still make a car payment and keep the family here going until we all can move.
See ya soon, hopefully

 

OK we get it Oil Field drivers can make much more than what SNI is paying but for most of us who have zero to minimal experience SNI is one of our few options, most of us cannot AFFORD to go out to TX, OK, ND and knock on doors and hope that somebody is willing to give us a chance. This is our way to walk through the door and get our feet wet give us a couple of years and we will be up there making $80k+. Take my word!