Starting a Frac Sand Hauling Business

#### they oughta just come buy me out and have an outfit already up and running. Sounds like it's about time to get out anyway the rates are #### sure gonna go to ####.

 

Be careful!!! One of the large transportation companies out her in ND has opened up a new shop in the PA area and they are sending a sh@!load of sand cans that way. Not sure how many but I drove by one of their ND yards and saw a hundred new trucks and was later told most were headed that way. No facts here, just hearsay, but all the same, be careful.

 

They can put 500 trucks on the ground the problem is finding drivers.

 

I have a friend who started his own co. a few years back and now has about 7 O/O's hauling sand cans for him. he's been trucking since 1973 (all as an O/O) and has done just about every kind of hauling imaginable (reefer, electronics, trade shows, stepdeck, flat, DD, O/D, all sorts of liquid and dry bulk tankers with hazmat, etc.. If you don't know what you're getting into (every specialized type of hauling has it's own quirks), you are going to learn a lot of things the hard way and they are going to cost you time, money and embarassment with your customers. There are a lot of things that can go wrong in that business and you should really start out with someone who knows what they are doing. I ran bulk tanker for awhile for ADM and was constantly learning how to "put out fires" because I was new to that type of hauling.

Also, if you want to get good rates, I would not recommend posting all the particulars of what you want to do on the internet sites. You're just asking for readers who aren't making good money to start checking out your very idea. The less people that know your specific idea, the better. Just ask some very general questions without giving away the whole idea.

Wish you well though.

 

they'll find someone to put in them~ they always do...

 

Schneider has been in the oilfield for the past years, hauling liquid gel to frac jobs. And they still do. I know because I worked a few years for Halliburton Frac. Here in Texas. The only question is, What will Schneider do when the oilfield drops out like it does every so many years. That's alot of investment for pneumatic sand tanks, blowers to sit. Will they invade another part of the market. I.E. Cement, Fly Ash. For years, small companies in here Texas had the contracts with energy companies and service companies I.E. halliburton, Shlumberj, Weatherford, Baker Hughes. The Good ol boy way of doing business. But now these big OTR companies want to come in and take it. Will have to wait and see what happens. Hopefully the rates will not drop to much. This is the OILFIELD. And not general freight.

New Sand Tank $73,000 w/F.E.T

New Blower Installed $8,800

As for the truck. Well any junk truck if you want. I prefer a Pete 379EXHD

A used blower half the cost of new installed. But You pay for what you get.

 

Missouri Basin?

 

our last set of sand haulers waited 7 days before blowing off.

 

On location!?!? Someone at the service company is gonna get a butt chewing. Detainment time...wow!