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I was just in Williston last week with my hubby to bring his semi home for a few weeks and we could not believe how slow the work is up there. He came home about a month ago to work for some friends because they weren't working much up there so whats the point in him sitting there doing nothing..... We met up with a few of the other drivers and they haven't hauled more then a couple loads here and there in the last month....... I told him it just made me sick to see how many trucks were just sitting around....the lots were full and it was a weekday and in the morning.......last year this time there wouldn't have been a single truck sitting.
They say its supposed to pick up again after the elections..............I hope its true.
I think a lot of it has more to do with the fact that owner/operators, who were filling the void a year ago, have been replaced more and more by company drivers...
Send his truck home and hire on as a company driver!
Does anyone know who is hiring experienced oil field drivers.....my husband is working with someone who pays very little and isn't very pleasant to work for........not getting many hours. Knows the ropes.
Does anyone know who is hiring experienced oil field drivers.....my husband is working with someone who pays very little and isn't very pleasant to work for........not getting many hours. Knows the ropes.
Not sure if they are still hiring but it's worth a try. Concord Energy in Watford City....google for their website and online application and then I'd go there in person and talk to someone.
yes there may be jobs out there but the guy's that have drove up there don't want to drive for this reduced price that the companies are changing to because they have all these people looking for jobs. These guy's/gals don't want to sit with a load and not get paid when a year ago they were getting paid the same amount whether they were driving or not. Now they will be X amount a load whether its a 5 hour drive or a 1 hour drive.....your not gonna make much money on that. The new guy's will take that reduced price and will sit with a load and not get paid becasue they don't know any better. What they are getting paid now it doesn't make sense for the drivers to pay for the cost of living up there and make that money.....Obviously just my opinion. Yes there is still a hype that there are tons of jobs up there but you have to decide if the increase of money your getting paid is worth it because the cost of living up there is so high and places just aren't paying what they used to......
Oil boom comes with tradeoffs and an ugly underbelly
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“The city is being terribly saturated with individuals looking for work,” said Cal Westerhof, a missionary from Dallas whose Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney offers free showers, food donations and low-cost rentals for displaced workers.
Rents have more than doubled all over the oil region. People rent out basements, rooms and even their front yards for trailers. Makeshift RV parks have cropped up everywhere and charge $400 a week or more. That’s about what an apartment rented for monthly before the boom began.
yes there may be jobs out there but the guy's that have drove up there don't want to drive for this reduced price that the companies are changing to because they have all these people looking for jobs. These guy's/gals don't want to sit with a load and not get paid when a year ago they were getting paid the same amount whether they were driving or not. Now they will be X amount a load whether its a 5 hour drive or a 1 hour drive.....your not gonna make much money on that. The new guy's will take that reduced price and will sit with a load and not get paid becasue they don't know any better. What they are getting paid now it doesn't make sense for the drivers to pay for the cost of living up there and make that money.....Obviously just my opinion. Yes there is still a hype that there are tons of jobs up there but you have to decide if the increase of money your getting paid is worth it because the cost of living up there is so high and places just aren't paying what they used to......
X amount per load? Which jobs are paying by the load? Water and sand are usually billed out by the hr, with the driver getting a percentage of that amount...
So far as reduced amounts, yeah its down even from just this spring. My husband's company, for example used to bill Vertex/Fractech/(whoever they are currently) 145 per hour, working and demerge, for sand. Now its something like 130 working and 110 demerge. Even still, his 18 hr job yesterday, most of which he slept through or watched videos in his sleeper, paid over $600... course you cant always count on breakdowns.
Typical boom and bust cycle that has happened many times in the Oil & Minerals professions. The only ones that have anything after these cycles are the speculators that got in early or suppliers of equipment and materials.
Typical boom and bust cycle that has happened many times in the Oil & Minerals professions. The only ones that have anything after these cycles are the speculators that got in early or suppliers of equipment and materials.
GL2
This is far from a bust.
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