South Texas Oil Field work

One more question, whats housing like?

My wife's job can trasnfer to San Antone, how far are the oil fields from the city/surronding area?

I don't mind not being home every night if I have to travel, my original plan was to just do OTR for a year or two but this seems like a much better option, and my wife being able to keep her job and just transfer to San Antone helps us quite a bit as far as moving and get resettled in a new state.

 

pearsall texas is about 45 min from SA and pleasanton, jourdanton as well so youll be good...

 

Thank you!

 

My 2 cents, I've had sevel weeks this year where I clocked 100 hrs for the week. I haul all oil field
fluids: clean & dirty, oil & water based mud and water. When I'm on rig cleanup the hours are almost always over 24. In fact I just got off a job 3 hrs. ago that lasted 44! Its my longest job thusfar.

Point is when I start work at a rig during a cleanup we start off hauling mud out to dispose or return to the mud plant until we reach our 15, then if the job continues the drivers who want to work more stay on-the-job and continue loading and unloading into an on-site frac tank. The fresh drivers come in and haul off until the job is done. When we're done we take our eight hour break on site before driving off the location. Sometimes I'll go directly to another job or back to the yard.

As the cleanup crews clean it takes a long while to get my truck fully loaded as the high-pressure sprayers use so little water while cleaning-out the various tanks & mud pits of the drilling rig so that's how hours easily rack up.

Safe driving

 

Lol funny how you guys try to match what goes on OTR to the oil patch. Well here is the inside scoop. First of all if anyone is running 100+ it doesn't mean your running illegal. Oil field drivers are allowed 16 hours instead of 14 total. You rarely drive over 9 hours a day. On water hauling you spent most of your time loading and unloading water and either they pay you ticket time or hourly. Some energy companies pay 17 hours with minimum of 4 loads which you can do in 8 hours. Other energy companies pay the truck company ticket time, which is when they pay you per load at a certain rate. For example . They can pay a load 3.5 hours but only take you 1 hour to do the whole trip as long as you don't charge over 24 in a single day.

 

What you guys are missing is the fact that a lot of loads in the patch are prorated. My shortest run pays me 10 hours but I can do a turnaround in 5. I've been paid for as much as 160 a week but only worked maybe 80 or 90 of those hours. The oilfield is a whole different ballgame.