Why do sand hauling companies require you to sleep in the truck?

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  1. Ponce2025

    Ponce2025 Bobtail Member

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    The road test is for that job. It's a company road test for that company
     
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  3. Frank Speak

    Frank Speak Road Train Member

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    Think I’d take a pass on that gig. Local means you’re home every night, not guarding priceless grains of sand.
     
  4. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Well, let’s analyze this for a bit.

    He’s in Texas, a big state with plenty of windshield time to be had, so could possibly justify running a sleeper. That leaves the question of how many times a week are we standing that trailer up?

    If it’s more than two or three, than I’m in your camp. I’m not running 5 or 6 loads a day out of the same pit in a sleeper truck.
     
  5. Lazer

    Lazer Road Train Member

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    Sand companies in the Permian Basin have the drivers follow the frac crew. You stay with your truck unless you are ‘on home time’. No driving your truck/trailer back to the yard, unless you are going on ‘home time’. No ‘slip seating’.
     
  6. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    It’s probably a pneumatic hauling frac sand or pulling sand boxes on a chassis.
     
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