Where the heck is the money in sand?

I haul that frac sand all around Texas and New Mexico. It basically works out to $800-$1,000 a week, unless you have a great week where you might hit $1,200-$1,500, but its like winning on those scratch off lotto tickets. Your definitely on call 24hours a day unless you have a gig that is setup for 9 to 5. Ask the guys that have been in it longer than me, they will tell you what it use to be like before a bunch of accountants, lawyers, and number crunchers gathered in one of those big office buildings with their suits and ties and figured people who really work hard should not be going home with $1,500-$2,000 a week with benefits. The US has turned into a country of speculators and deranged profiteering nuts. I use to get paid 24hours around the clock if I had to sit with some trillionaire company's load on the boss's trailer. Now you only get paid 14 hours out of 24. Plus the rate dropped on haulage and detention. There are a lot more rail yards throughout the land so the hauls are shorter, around 50-150miles. I'm still very thankful to be able to do this job. Just travel to some of these other countries and see what people have to do to survive. I really think these politicians would allow US companies to hire Chinese workers at $50 a week if they could to do the jobs of Americans as long as some corporation would donate to their campaign. We have to be logical and keep the US competitive and fair for everybody. Just my 2cents. I'm on my 1 week break, been on the road for a 1 1/2 months, see you guys and gals out there soon, be safe, thanks to the Truckers Report team.
Oh yea, CJ Energy is hiring and a couple more, can't remember. When I go back out I'll jot 'em down and tell ya.

 

Im thinking of hauling sand...Been a otr driver for over a yr...been hauling 53 ft dry van since ive been driving...

 

I will let you know tomorrow. I have set up meeting and will get details. Thanks

 

Here I go again...last biweekly paycheck = $3600 (YEAY!!!!); now...I havent worked on the 2nd,3rd, 4th was paid, $210 on the 5th, nothing on the 6th and 7th nor 8th...end of pay period = next biweekly maybe $1200-1600... and tomorow , $80 - maybe $160......... And most of those days I couldnt preplan nor could I drive to far in hopes i'd get called in for work....WTF, What on earth am I doing to myself??? yes, I managed to save $10k in 3 months, but am still homeless - kinda hungry (although i've lost 13lbs!) havent registered my car (due to lack of address, which also is not allowing me to get a condo loan), have no hopes of being able to date anyone,make new friends, nor go riverrafting, climbing, hiking, etc. - OTR? Crete, Interstate Dist, or Stevens? TANKER? Trimac, Kenan, or Groendyke? FOODSERVICE? McClane, Sygma, Sysco? .......What about Warehousing? Supervision? Airline ramp agent? McDonalds? then grab the cheapest mobilehome and wait for age or a nasty disease to take over my misery
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The company I work for used to have profit sharing. Times it was a check for $1.50 then, things changed and was a months pay. The company took it and a VP said "it would be ludicrous to pay you guys that". All while they are making record profits.

 

Could someone please tell me what fracking is. I have 8 yrs hazmat tanker experience, but would like to work in the oilfields in Alberta, but don't know enough about it. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Fracking is the term used for CDLA drivers who: 1) like to drive on beat up roads ( and frac their trucs as well as their brains) - 2) those who loooove waiting around, sometimes for days in a row, for the fracking crew to give the go ahead to start delivering -3) those who loooooove to have to NOT be able to deliver even though their 100 feet from the location, then look at their 14 turn into negative four and left to wonder about whats right and whats wrong, whats legal and whats illegal. 4) those who dont drive but would not mind standing next to a well pipe 37 hours in a row, breathing silica and other toxi chemicals for a minimum of 2 weeks at a time. 5) those who like easy money, dont care about DOT/DMV rules, cant get hired by NO other company, dont mind getiing called in to work at 2 am on your first day off, every one of your days off, can live on 3 hours of sleep a day, and dont mind year round seasonal allergies.

 

What a bunch of bs. Fracing is pumping fluid and sand into a shale rock formation thousands of feet down the well in order to fracture the formation giving the hydrocarbons a path to the well bore.

If you work on a frac crew you will drive very little. You drive your equipment (frac pumps, blender, control van ect.) to the well, rig up to the wellhead and then pump the job. The job may be two hours or it may be several days long. You will run a piece of equipment during the job and when it's over you rig down and head to the next one. You are also expected to perform maintenance on the equipment.

Most frac crews work 12-16 hour shifts, some work around the clock. The crew I'm on works around the clock. If we start a job we are at the well until the job is done or we go on days off. That means sometimes working forty plus hours without a shower and very little sleep. We try to have two people per task, so we can work in shifts and catch a nap in the sleeper every now and then.

The danger of silica dust is very real and you have to wear your protective gear. You will receive pretty good training to keep you safe. The job can be dangerous, but if you follow the safety rules all the time, you will be fine.

Points two and three have nothing to do with fracing, but I see sand haulers dealing with that daily.

 

Apparently someone doesn't understand sarcasm. From a fellow sand hauler, I hear you and its the same wherever you go.

 

I realize the previous post was probably sarcasm. I was just trying to give the OP some real info.