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Old 05-19-2013, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Central Illinois
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Hi All ! Am from central Illinois and have drove many trips to SA and surrounding areas. Wife had brain surgery some years ago and cannot deal with prolonged cold weather anymore. We love Texas and while wanting to possibly make a move, I would like to know if there is manufacturing jobs to want drivers (I used to haul produce, mainly). Would love to be home atleast on weekends. Would love to hear from others in the trucking sector as well as former "ILLINI" !! Thanks.
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Old 05-19-2013, 01:11 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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There are plenty of jobs south of San Antonio that require CDL drivers. They are all related to the Eagle Ford Shale area. I am not sure about their exact schedules though.

I do know that a co-worker's boyfriend moved from Iowa and was a truck driver there and is doing very well here. So it is possible.
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Old 05-20-2013, 07:49 AM
 
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Try HEB, Sysco or Sygma
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Old 05-20-2013, 08:02 PM
 
Location: Central Illinois
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Thanks ashbeeigh - I have heard of the work south of SA; it was on the news here awhile back. I have read about Seguin having some types of manufacturing and it's not far away. I have a good feeling about this. I sure didn't win the Powerball (600 mil) so I'm saving more each week! Thanks again and also to CRenaud but I'm not a big fan of huge companies.

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Old 05-21-2013, 08:30 AM
 
Location: South Texas
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Hi All ! Am from central Illinois and have drove many trips to SA and surrounding areas. Wife had brain surgery some years ago and cannot deal with prolonged cold weather anymore. We love Texas and while wanting to possibly make a move, I would like to know if there is manufacturing jobs to want drivers (I used to haul produce, mainly). Would love to be home atleast on weekends. Would love to hear from others in the trucking sector as well as former "ILLINI" !! Thanks.
If you want to run a reefer, HEB and Parkway might be the place for you, or you may look at food service (Labatt, Sygma, Sysco, etc.)

Lots of work in the Eagle Ford (oilfield), but most of it requires hazmat and/or tanker. However, frac sand requires neither, and if you're willing to work on a frac/wireline/coil tubing crew, you may not need any endorsements.

There is lots of fuel tanker work around here (both retail and oilfield), and some of pneumatic work hauling cement, lime, etc. If nothing else, there is a lot of belly dump and end-dump work hauling rock, but the O/Os are very cutthroat on rates, so pay for a co. driver is low.
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Old 05-21-2013, 07:22 PM
 
Location: Central Illinois
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Thank ya SP. Very good info and I have had my hazmat endorsement but dropped it since I never needed it. Being from the Midwest, there are a bunch of O/O (I used to be one) that haul/use most everything BUT oilfield equipment so that sounds like a challenge in itself. Gives me some ideas!! Thanks again - JWB
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Old 05-22-2013, 09:08 PM
 
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Default In Agreement with Slowpoke,

Your surmisal is correct in my opinion, Belly dump, over the road drivers etc.make near subsistence
wages here in South Texas. As always, blue collar wages for the most part here are low.
Eagle Ford pays well, much better It was my understanding that Owner -operators were being paid six figures for working in the oil-gas fields.I would research this claim and maybe get another.
Hard to believe, but I have encountered this claim more than once. I have also read other real-life personal recountings about people making unbelievable wages out there in news stories on the internet.
In one newspaper interview a fellow began work in a- mud-pit, washing the mud off truck tires with a pressure washer before they left the fields and headed out onto the road.
However, the demand for labor was so high that within three years of being hired he had been promoted into a driller's position making over a hundred grand annually, but at a high cost. 90 Hrs. worked per week. There is more to his story , this is just a sumnation of a pretty lengthy interview.
It was in an article in our local newspaper, but I read this interview online @ - Eagle Ford Shale jobs.
The Best of Luck to you, Road Scholar and if you do come, be wary of the intense sunshine and high daily temperatures and becoming overheated, this is a very different environment here, than Illinois.
The opposite climate really. Very mild winters and extreme temps. in the summer. Real heat, not Illinois heat.
Watch for the fire ants too, and cactus.
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Thank ya SP. Very good info and I have had my hazmat endorsement but dropped it since I never needed it. Being from the Midwest, there are a bunch of O/O (I used to be one) that haul/use most everything BUT oilfield equipment so that sounds like a challenge in itself. Gives me some ideas!! Thanks again - JWB
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Old 05-23-2013, 04:13 PM
 
Location: Central Illinois
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Thanks for your feedback Huckster. I haven't been on the road for a few years but as an owner operator much of the last 10+ years, I know alittle about the heat. I love it! You see, for the last 5 or so years I drove, I would bring cooking oil downtown to Bill Miller's BBQ small warehouse or a bakery in China Grove. I also spent a lot of time in the valley (San Benito - the home of Freddy Fender) to pick up cabbage to transport to near downtown Chicago. Every week ~ Illinois to places all over Texas and back. I miss driving and since we love the SA area, something tells me to embark on another chapter of life. Retirement is on our mind as well but as I stated before, driving and Texas is what I love and finding all this great info that everyone has shared makes me want to leave as soon as we can but realistically.......it'll be a few more months. Thanks again and I DO know about fire ants : (
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