I like the way you treat your truck taking your time and not getting everything wound up so tight. You have a caring professional approach .Here in Missouri we have grain trucks that just have to gear down with loud exhaust brakes, make a big show, and let us all know how big of a man they are. They ruin the quality of living in many small towns and seem to get off on it.
Thank you, I learned at a young age to take care of your truck and it will take care of you. I’m not into the loud exhaust, not interested in listening to it all day everyday.
Hey Nick! This is great video! I recently took a job dispatching for 1845....great job with great people....but now I get to see what my drivers go through on their hauls....thank you so much!💜
Nothing like how we do it in Pennsylvania lol. Tight roads and no shoulders make things tricky. Our trucks are as wide as the lanes that we're passing in. I'd be in heaven driving on thise kind of roads lol
Tanker work is the best,nice weather and beauty of a day.I hauled fuel for chevron for 20 years till they turfed us.I now haul grain feed truck tankers and that’s got to be easiest job I’ve ever had.
+Nick Duncombe Hey nick,I'm really considering getting my cdl but only doing local where i will be home every night if possible and not OTR.. Just wanna know if you think it's worth it? I'm 30 with no wife or kids so either way i will be alright,lol. I see plenty of people needing cdl drivers left and right but don't know if there is much money in it..
+Nick Duncombe If you also know the best and quickest way i can get my cdl without going to a school for it for many months that would awesome as well...
Thank you! Yeah I made a promise to myself I wouldn’t chase work. I save money for the slow times. I have two little kids I feel I need to be home with them. With our oilfields here I can be home every night.
@Erik Satie nah bro.. the contrails produced by certain air vehicles will expand to cover the entire sky after a few hours of sitting. i've never seen a real cloud expand like these select few contrails
Interesting in seeing this side of frac’ing nice job .i run the front half with a end dump hauling raw frac to the place that turns it into 40/70 or 100mesh then once it’s made I haul it to where you would pick it up
try putting a pie plate with arm and hammer bakin soda in the floor of your truck or if you dont have carpet just sprinkle on floor. Will take out petroleum smell big time. If arm and hammer can cure Northern Jersey smell , is one powerfull aid!
I have ten years frame less dump trailer experience hauling all aspects of demolition materials. I have a clean MVR and would be interested in doing a stint in ND.
I have CDL A , not so much OTR experience but I have heavy equipment , dump trucks and various other vehicles experience plus mechanic and hydraulic equipment maintenance and looking for oilfield job . Any suggestions ?
OO are a good breed to have on location, fleet drivers are not so much. Speed limit is 20 here and I will get your job if you speed! Good luck and safe travels!
pretty clever sand castle there it looks like an up righted truck. when they are done with them and need to move them do they just upright them down and drive away with them?
How long did this one run take you? Also, how many hours of driving on average without traffic did you have to do between the loading and unloading areas in previous jobs?
This run takes four to four and a half hours to round trip. Drive time is an hour and a half each way, so three hours. Here in Wyoming traffic isn't an issue, I only have three stop lights to deal with on this run.
Hello there! Man that’s a big bug splat!! Not sure if you have used this method of cleaning bugs, but a good glass cleaner and nice sharp acrylic ice scraper works the best for me! Good luck with your load rates! Have fun and stay safe!
Nice!! I haul shipping containers from paper mill to ports in Savannah ga and s.c. What camera are you using for filming safe travels fellow trucker!!!
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Libertarian TROLL I'm trying to get my CDL license in a few months. You say You Haul containers from South Carolina to Savannah how much money can a guy like myself with no experience working for a company and coming out of Charleston South Carolina going to Savannah earn per week
Judging by the interior of your cab, you good Sir are style'n & PROfile'n!!! Gotta keep a powerful audio system to help keep you awake on those 15 hour days. Hay'ell yeah!
Sick man! I’m over here in California kern country area in the oil fields too it’s picking up nice over here I’m a crane operator/flat bed driver out here wanting to get my own truck and haul soon barley gonna be 22 so waiting for a couple more years or so because insurance is probably going to be HIGH
If you have time would you be able to do a quick walk around of that trailer. I have seen them around in Wisconsin but don’t know anything about them. I know they haul fracking sand in northern Wisconsin but are those the same trailers they sometimes haul powered cement in?My second question is and don’t think I am mad or anything but what is it with everyone and this frac sand I thought they were starting to use something else besides sand.
Please keep your eyes on the road. RR 33 S of Garden City, Texas...if you don't mind. Sitting at the end of the line with a load of concrete culverts on a drop deck dove tail trailer a "guy", I won't say who, but he was about 7'4" who got out of the truck he ran up on mine with and jerked his wheel at the last second so my cab and I weren't flattened by his W900KW with a sand frac trailer. I could have really done without that . OTOH, he didn't seem to really care although both rigs had to be hauled away as did I...in the ambulance. It was really fun strapped to a back board with a damned deputy sheriff talking non-stop while I was in agony. I still pay for it every day.. The giant truck driver is still probably running over other trucks with his ear pods in and his phone in hand. You gotta love that. DPS asked me did I have on my seatbelt. Shit no I said, I'm still alive ain't I? Idiot govt. mandates seatbelts in big rigs when most of the time you'd be better off to be "out" of it.
Wathing that hood shack on your w900 and seeing those 389s makes me want to find a decent 389 myself and reguster it as not for hire farm use so i can drive the damn thing...
That's what I'm doing in Ohio. Not cans though, running boxes. You guys out west have huge pads! Drilling and fracing on the same pad. Wow. What sand do you all use out there? We primarily use 30/50 40/70 and 100 mesh.
There has been talk of boxes. These pads have around 20 wells on them. They drill two side by side move over about 20 feet and start drilling again they frac them right away.
Hello sir I own my truck and been looking to get it working... right now I’m hauling crude oil but it don’t pay much... how can I get into the field your in
Good Video... that's how it is except for when the roads to the oilfield are so bad that your truck shakes apart! I have lost a power steering pump and all of my stuff off the dash! it can be insane bumpy ride!
I had herd that felons can be truck drivers for expedited and that theirs a company (cr England I think?) That has a school that will take pretty much anyone who applies and you can either pay for the class or sign a contract to drive for them for a year and at the end of a year you can leave or drive for them still or drice for them and get a truck and they finance it for you. Any knowledge on this? Think I got the cr england name wrong but somethi g close to that.
I work with a company called 1845 Oilfield Services we all sand right now there's unlimited work there's very few drivers you can make if you own your own truck 6500 to 10000 a week
Would this be a hard end of the industry to get into without owning your own truck? I know a lot of guys say you buy your own truck but not everyone is suited or even wants to buy a truck and worry about maintenance costs, fuel expenses, ifta, taxes, etc. If there are company driver positions out there, what could one expect to make on avg?
Yeah. Im dying in this field. I eventually want to do frac sand hauling, heavy haul, etc... my 58 mph truck is killing me. Anyways, like your videos. Keep it up!!!
Chino Mex You know it’s really a toss up. I’ve known of a lot of owner operators going broke. In the oil field I think you can make more than a company driver, But you have huge maintenance bills.
Nick I live in Houston and have been offered a job hauling sand for a Texas company. Would like to know more info about it from a driver who’s already doing it. How many loads are you able to do in a day when the weather is decent like it is in the video, how much $$ can a company driver make in a week on average, how demanding are your superiors, what are the tips that would come in handy for a driver who’s never hauled sand before, aside from the actual work how is life as a sand hauler different from OTR, etc thanks in advance
Every area is different, here in Wyoming the money is pretty good right now. The tough part about the job is your on call all the time. I’m not sure how it is in your area but where I’m at I haul two to three loads a day witch will average 10-14 hours then I’m off for 10 hours then I’m on call. We don’t really have a scheduled witch can be tough.
NoHeater So I’m doing different work now. The water hauling got real cheap. There were plenty of companies willing to do the work for almost nothing. Now hauling sand in Wyoming it’s all about supply and demand. They are Fracing like crazy and there just isn’t enough truck around anymore. So the rates have gone back to what I was making in the boom (2006-2009). It’s definitely really good money but all you do is work.
The first six minutes months I spent lots of time in the mountains enjoying life. I helped my rancher friend and put a roof on a neighbors house. Just some odd work here and there. My wife has a pretty good job and I had saved quite a bit of money. The next six months I worked for Old Dominion doing local P&D.
thanks for the video, right now I'm an oil field mechanic but I'm thinking of buying my own Rig and doing what your doing. What kind of overhead expenses do you guys have to pay for other than your truck and insurance?
Fuel and maintenance will be your biggest expense. Some places will pay you in a week or two, some will let you use a factoring company witch will cost you a couple percent. I am out 45 days on pay but after that I get paid weekly.
I'm suppose to start hauling sand in the Bakken Basin on the 26th. I'm kinda nervous.. since I've never had to deal with the North Dakota winters. The lady said I can average 3-6 loads a day. They only operate 100 mile radius from the terminal.
Too bad that rock springs Hallibortion dried up. I think Slumberger left Rock springs also. I worked down there around Granger in 2019 and last year around Pinedale/Labarge area. Things aren't looking too good in the patch.
I drove a vacuum truck in the oilfields for many years. That was in the 70's. Then moved into hauling hazardous waste locally and then otr. I always made very very good money. I was able to buy three houses cash through the years and did retire early a few years ago. I got tired of all the increasing regs!
alfred selle Just facts my friend. Drove for over 40 years. Is that bragging too? I thought my little story was just enough to confirm to the newer drivers, that money can be had if you work in the right industry and work your ass off. Is that bragging? Anyway, you Hava great day. e
Snow flake? you one of those that hates the truth of reality so you automatically need to say something negative? Yup sounds like a todays snow flake to me. The man was simply saying work hard and it pays get over it snow flake cause har workers of today consist of these idiot zombies that walk around with their phones attached to them all day
David De Jesus no need to justify to idiots like that. Work hard get payed well and play hard. I'm just about 30 years old now and have worked in the oil fields as a mechanic and make a lot of money. Some get jealous some envy but most won't work the hours or time away from family that I do. I love it and plan to leave it eventually. Take care
Just discovered your channel and you have some great content. I got three questions for you, 1. Does hauling sand require a tanker endorsement? 2. Do you still run logs even if you just went that short distance? 3. On a scale from 1-10 10 being most likely, how likely is it for an 18 year old with a CDL to get a job hauling sand? Thanks.
Thank you. You do not need a tanker endorsement. Yes I run a log book because some days it will take me 14 hours to get done. If you don't run a log book you have to stay under 12 hours. It's probably going to be hard to find a job being 18, because most, if not all insurance companies will not insure you, sorry.
Was offered a job hauling Frac sand in North Dakota average their drivers make he said was 5,000 every two weeks before taxes not sure what to think of that never worked the oil field before kinda think that is a lot for sand hauling but I don’t know
Is that I'm thinking of getting into it but not sure to go straight into the lease program or just go to Odessa and try it out but they pay with a 1099 see how the hauling frac industry is would you have any advice for me
I really don’t know much about a lease program, but you can make really good money but you want to be careful and not get over extended. The oil field work is up and down and I’ve seen a lot of guys buy a truck at the wrong time and go broke. I figure you have two good years possibly six (if trump gets re-elected)
It really is good work. Yes you can legal three loads in a day most of the time. If you get held up on location (have to wait for other trucks to unload, or wait for room to unload) it can mess you up. Three loads will usually take 13-14 hours with out getting held up.
Nick Duncombe ah ok. I worked for a company called glen tay transportation. When trailers came in with products in them we had to empty them and depending on what it was we had different psi for them. When we washed the trailers for change over we got them to 15psi for blow out and drying. The cement haulers were the worst.
Yeah sand is about 100lbs per cubic foot so it’s pretty heavy and a little harder to push. Don’t get me wrong a lot of guys will push it as hard as they can but I pay for my equipment and I don’t want to burn it up.
hey I got a question for you. I work on Frac locations like the one in your video. A sand hauler told me he gets $1500 per load of sand and try's to haul 2 loads a day. That sounds like a lot of money. Is that possible?
