Oilfield Water Hauling
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Follow along as i take you though the process of my day hauling production water. This field is approximately 30 mile from the nearest highway. It take about an hour and a half to get into the field. A two load day is a full day.
Best and most informative video I’ve seen on hauling water! Awesome job brother!!
Very informative video. I'm looking into this career path myself and now have a rough idea what to expect, thank you!
It’s so weird seeing how other divisions haul water. Here in the Appalachian Division (WV,OH,PA) Hauling water is way different and seem more technologically advanced but more strict then where your at. 90% are Bottles that haul the water, other 10% would be Day cabs with a tank like yours. We don’t dip the tanks to find our oil and water levels for top/bottom gauge everything is on a screen that relays in real time. The load out pods already have the cam lock fitting built in. With bleeders on the load pods and your truck. Containment is on the trucks, you put pans under your pump, and under the bird bath under your truck. Spills are a huge deal it’s very weird to see how West Texas and Dakotas do it. Seems more relaxed but not as up to date
I have been on locations that have computer read outs but at some point people pulled to much oil and hauled it to disposals so then they required us to get our own gauges.
I do this in West Virginia! Cool to see how you guys do it out west, we have digital screens to show us the water/oil level so we’re a bit spoiled! 😂and you’re right about the loaded truck having the right of way but a lot of people don’t follow it here either. Stay safe! Keep the rubber side down driver!
We're slowly getting there, at least up here North Dakota, all new wells and leases come with digital read outs, and a lot of producers have taken the initiative to modernize their older pads to make it easier on the drivers to load. I'm still dumbfounded that some producers down there still don't have fixed fittings on their geddy boxes.
@@BakkenHaulinHeroI almost came to the Bakken to truck water. My company has a division in every part of the oilfield in the U.S. they were gonna send us out there when things got slow in 2019 cause I guess it was a big boom out there but they didn’t send us
Just got promoted to dispatcher for a water hauling company. Thanks for the video. Definitely helpful to visually see what our drivers do.
Yeah that can be tough if you don't know what they go though. I dispatched part time for about six months. Way harder than driving a truck.
Don't know what you doing in a truck I would had fired you for your own good dam NUT
Dispatchers put up with a lot of shit from whiny truckers to screaming operators wondering why the fuck the truck did what he did or why he wasn't there 3 hours ago.
Feels like taken along. Thanks for the ride.
Dewatering, my sometime summer job at Prudhoe Alaska. Pulled a bogey wheeled trailer with a 20000 gal tank, 4 rows of 8 tires on trailer, and a 6 inch pump on gooseneck, pulling thru a 4 inch hose. No hills to speak of, and no brakes on trailer. Load at one pit dump in another, short hauls, lots of loading and unloading. Back in the day of few safety meetings and a whole lot less BS. Oh yeah, no weight restrictions on roads.
hello from northern alberta canada oilfields from another fluid hauler sure sums up my day
I live in Calgary and have a strong interest in oilfield hauling. Got any pointers on starting out green here? Do I need to haul freight for a few years to get experience miles before applying in the oilfield?
Pieter Holloway No, go to Grande Prairie. They'll hire anyone with a pulse.
Lmao amen ^^
You have a great way of explaining things. Great editing too. I learned so much, thank you!
Thank you for the kind words.
Hauled crude in north Dakota oil boom in2010-2014 loved it heading back up there 2019 been gone for for about 6 years cheers from Texas oceancowboy 🤠⛵️⚓️
What your number
Thank you very much for your video it was very helpful I'm getting ready to go do that next month and I'm nervous thank you very much for your time and detail video.
Right on glad I could help you out, good luck to you!
Excellent video. Almost as good as being there. Sure enough in big country out there. Thanks for taking us along
Hey thanks for watching, I appreciate the positive comment.
Great video there Driver.
I was fortunate enough to have mostly decent roads most of the time during my water hauling days in central Texas. Our loads were sometimes very close to the disposal sites and we could four or five loads per shift depending on our assignment for the day. Even when I hauled oil it was the same territory and two to three loads per shift. The boss wouldn't go down on her transport prices and we lost our contract and were laid off last March.
I hope you find good work soon if you haven't already.
DriverJackOB1 I'm glad you liked the video. Before I worked in this field I work in another one where you could haul seven or eight loads a day with a disposals on each of the field. Currently my truck is just sitting in my drive way and I am working for a local delivery company delivering freight to the local coal and trona mines.
Well, at least you have a truck of your own in case something promising comes along.
HAHA I just realized I commented with my other channel. Yeah I'll work this other job until the rates come back up. If they don't I guess i'll have a big go to town truck.
great job you have bro. good information too. love watching your videos.
Feel free to pull over every hour or so and do some calisthenics. Squats can be important and promoting blood flow out of the lower limb, especially with all that sitting. Jump up and down if you can. Do some lower back extension in order to counter all the low back flexion your in while sitting. Start jump roping in order to get the cardio going. Lots of options to stay fit without needing a weight room. You can also bring a kettlebell with and do swings while on the road.
Great advice!
@@nickw900l 1 adjustable Kettlebell is fantastic advice. 5-20 lbs
Very nice to watch. Interesting job though. Greetings from Germany.
Very good informative video. I'm getting ready to learn hauling Production Water next week here in Williston North Dakota.
Thinking about coming that way. How ya like it so far?
So far so good.
I'm done hauling Frac Sand Boxes for this year, maybe next year will be a much better year for that.
Production Water Hauling is coming along nicely...
How's the pay driver?
Its so nice and flat out there! Beats doing it here in the mountains
Nice. I used to work for Sanjel in fort lupton Colorado. Started me off at 15 days on and 6 days off. $102,000 a year plus bonuses from every casing we did. Daym good money then they went out of business
where do you work now? I am a driver and live in colorado as well
Started about a month ago today, and man you should see the lease roads in Pecos or NM areas... Pretty dam rough!, but I am learning and appreciate it.. Thanks for the video.
Hey bud are you hauling water
Yes
How can i start i have cdl with tankers with no experience im 20 i got it when i was 18
Great video. Thanks for making it. Safe travels driver.
Now I know exactly what it’s all about, same exact thing to environmental services. I use to run a Cusco short tank, vacuuming out containment’s pits. Also done a little bit of oil clean up and solidification work. Bring back the waste, put it in the pit, throw a bunch of saw dust and cotton on it to soak it up load that on to a dump truck and to the land fill it goes
This guy deserves more subs!
Miachel Walker HAHA thank you!
@@nickw900l What kind of hours do you guys do? Btw,Thank you for the video.
Horse power really doesn’t matter when your top speed is 20.
Hi Nick...Really well done video. The only thing is compressors compress air and vapors. Pumps pump it underground, Hello to you from the Bakken oil patch SW disposal. Be safe out there friend.
Been doing this job 14 years. When it's good it's good. But when it crashes it's bad.. the Barnett Shale here in central Texas has slowed to a crawl and is on its last leg. South Texas and West Texas are the only places still booming here
Nice be working day shift lot diferent than night shift and in a rainny night good luck by the way !!!
I’m not a fan of working nights. I’ve had to do it quite a bit. We have to deal with snow though.
@@nickw900l its hard anyways be working Oil fields!!!
Dude, that was a very nice video.....your narration was very helpful and friendly but not "know it all" annoying like some!! Were you using a GoPro camera? Your footage was very good. Keep on truckin!
Thank you! Yes I used a GoPro to film this. I'm planning to make some more oilfield trucking videos soon. Not long after I filmed this we lost our work. Luckily I'll be back to trucking in the oilfield next month.
My daughters got me a GoPro for Christmas and I'm still trying to learn how to use it. lol
I love using it in the truck, it's small and light weight. I also like doing time laps with it they turn out great.
Now what do u do wirh the dirty water as a driver in the gravel business here in ont canada just wondering
undertaker131313 you sound like a real piece of work loser
Kw hasn’t made a decent interior since the 90s. Love those flat dashes
I wouldn’t know, haven’t drove anything that new.
that's an amazing scenery by the way west Texas oil field don't have anything like that
Sorry to say , yes we do Post, Texas off into the caprock canyon
you hit the nail in the head with this video my friend thank you. 1 sub for you.
Great video! This whole time I thought you were in New Mexico, where I live.
where is he in this video?
@@billwilliams9897 Wyoming I think
He said he’s heading to Wamsutter, which is in Wyoming.
I need to ditch OTR van trucking and become a tanker.. You get to wear a hard hat
andrew gallant Oilfied is hot now , come down to Odessa , if you are a good hustler you can do $2000 weekly easy
I really enjoy it. I'm in Oklahoma oilfield. I'm doing about $3500 @ every 2 weeks with a day or 2 off every week. And it's chilled and laid back....no hustle required. 30 miles from my home
@@billwilliams9897 I live in Oklahoma. What kind of entry level positions should i apply for?
@@justinfay3011 I would look on Facebook for a group called Oklahoma oilfield jobs. Or on Indeed.com ....and search for water hauling jobs. Type in location. Look for work around Ardmore, wilson, chickasha , Lindsay, El Reno, or Leedy. I would try to stick with lease water if you can until you learn the gig. Stay away from rig work all you can. Avoid the small companies around tupelo and Colgate...because there is 3 companies there fighting over to small of a area. And Never work for a Company names Sooner Hot Oil ran by Tammy McPherson. I just had to use the labor Board to get paid by her and I won. She is based in Ponca City. She also owns a company called (Heart of Oklahoma) and Sooner Hot oil.
@@justinfay3011 If you do not have a cdl then go to Arbuckle truck school in Ardmore. They have all new management and teachers. They been having a 100% passing rate. Its a good school. And there is help with tuition. Workforce Oklahoma will pay for it and put you in a hotel if need be. Then you pay it out gradually once driving.
Good video.
Great video sure is good to see a video of someone from back in Wyoming I'm looking forward to moving back in in a year when I get out of the military
You bet, thanks for your service!
Thanks for the video. I might be on my way to North Dakota.
0:30 lol you slowed down for that. Sask water hauler here. We do the same job but pretty much everything other than the camlocks are different. We have gauge boards and test taps on our tanks up here and our pumps are mounted behind the cab. Also we'd be canned on sight if we were wearing Dickies (I wear shorts and sandals but nobody is ever around to rat on me). Our water gets pumped back down hole too.
Wamsutter..... yes sir been there a few times. Too bad you got bid out. Those production hauls pay bills even if it's the same old haul over and over. Beats hauling to a rig and then sit for the next one to come up. Nice to be home every night on productions hauls. (most every night ha,ha).
90` corners come up fast at night especially when you have the midnight sleepies or 4 am ones.
Is your production water pretty salty or not so much?
Any good hot water wells nearby for -40 wind and cold...?
Galen Cox yeah I do miss it. This field didn't have any heated water. Some of the wells had hot water before because they were fairly new wells. The tanks were heated pretty well though. We did haul five gallon jugs with hot water from home to thaw the load lines occasionally. We really didn't have to many problems with ice. I have worked in other field where we had problems all the time. No the water wasn't salty at all like Oklahoma or North Dakota.
Galen Cox sorry I commented though the wrong account!
I worked as in water hauler in Elk City Oklahoma it was pretty good pay and easy work but a lot of racism you mainly see whites not that much blacks or Mexicans I am Hispanic yes but this was a pretty good video very nice
Why is it that they only hire white guys? In Colorado I believe the majority of the water haulers are Hispanic. Thanks for watching.
@@nickw900l it's not about just hiring white people it's the attitude they have they act like they're a bunch of know-it-alls and if I would go to a disposal and I would sit next to him they wouldn't even look up say hi just ignore me or they were just get up and leave and go and wait in their trucks what I think it is it just a bunch of whites getting mad because of dark person is working with them and getting the same pay but that is just my opinion and the way I seen things but don't get me wrong not everybody would act like that just to my already but somewhere very nice the guys that showed me how to pull bottom do gauges and transfer oil and skim oil they were pretty cool people and I really appreciate them showing me their techniques
reminds me of driving double air-slide trailers in winnemucca nv, hauling lime to the open pit gold mines.. hard but fun work
At some point I worked with someone that did that. I remember hearing stories about it, but I can't remember who it was.
Denver Broncos hell ya
Friend of mine who used to haul crude oil and oilfield water out of the sites and he had a 1984 359 day cab pete and he got laid off for almost 8 months and he went and bought a dryvan and a reefer trailer and started hauling those until the oil feild started booming again and he went back for a while
I do the same job but we don’t climb any tanks. There is computer terminals that tell you how much condensate and water. I work in the Marcellus Shale gas.
Yes, the fields I’ve work in also have scada systems but they must not trust them. They still wanted us to strap the tanks.
Where you working at? Colorado is my guess... I’m from Texas, same kind of work, Family Business started in 1974 for the Permian basin down here in West Texas. Pump Trucks, Vacuum Trucks & Hot Oilers. Keep on brother! Nice Video!
Edit: I said Colorado due to the snow& mountains but I heard your accent and now I’m thinking Canada?? Haha. Either way, keep working brother!
You were close with your first guess. I’m actually in Wyoming. Thanks for watching.
PKDUSTER2525 hey PKDUSTER2525. What is your business's name. I am looking into water hauling. Thanks!
Cool video. I am looking to get into this part of feild hauling with my hazmat and twix card proberly in texas.thanks for the video
KEEP ON TRUCKN MY DUDE 💪🏼💯
Is otr required b4 going tanker? Love your video. I want to start on tanker. I do have my cdl with tanker endorsement.
Sunshine 2019 no its not
I am looking for work like this, but I don't know what companies to look for. I hear you can get some decent money oilfield trucking, hauling water or sand.
I worked in the oilfield for 10 years as an owner operator. I spent six years hauling sand, and the other four hauling production water. There can be good money in it, but the last couple years things have slowed down a bit here in Wyoming and the rates have gone down. The sand hauling will make you more money for your time, but its real up and down. You will be supper busy or sitting waiting. Production hauling is a lot more consistent, but a lot less pay. So it would probably work out to the same in the end haha. I'm in western Wyoming if your interested in work in this area I could give you some names of companies that you could try out.
I am interested. I hope you don't mind me sending a private message.
www.kbtinc.biz This is a sand hauling company that hauls sand all over Wyoming and Colorado. They are a good company to work for. www.awwaterservice.com I've never worked for or with this company, but they are big. They are all over Wyoming and Colorado. They always seem to stay busy. I hope this helps and good luck!
Thanks for the info! If there is anyone I should avoid, please let me know. I have student loans to pay off and I'm tired of being poor. I'm very willing to work, but I need to get paid. One thing I've learned the hard way is that if you don't know what you're getting into, people and companies will take advantage of you, at your expense.
carlsbad NM plenty of work here lots of oilfield work.
cool video man .. and I thought the roads in West Texas after a nasty rain storm were bad they pretty much were sinkholes we pull up on trucks that we're halfway sticking out of the ground but this is a cool video man keep posting
I'm glad you like the video! Unfortunately we were under bid for the work and my truck has sat at my house all summer. As bad as the roads are I do miss working out there.
Thank you for sharing.
Pardon my crass commercialism, but... How's the money?
And,
Are there jobs hauling water TO the wells? Or is water hauling strictly hauling water FROM wells?
The rates for water hauling have gone down but are ok. I primarily hauled water off the well locations
How much pressure is needed for loading and unloading? Trying to teach myself how to do this for hazmat jobs and I know at the back of the tanker is a pressure relief valve but Idk how much pressure is good or bad. Thanks
Hey man, I'm 22 years old and single. Could I make like a *net* 9,000 PER MONTH working my ass off? Maybe a little more? Your channel is really nice.
Are you an owner operator? As a company drive it’s going to be tough to make that here in Wyoming with the logbook rules. Even if you work really hard the frac crews have issues and go down from time to time. In Texas it sounds like they are making more money. A buddy of mine was down there and he hated it. He would wait for hours to get loaded and hours to get unload. The frac crews would see all kinds of guys that didn’t know what they were doing so they treated everyone like idiots. He got tired of that real fast.
I just got offered a position doing this. See u soon
How's it working out for ya?
How do u like it? Where do u run?
Great video. Thinking of heading to Texas and scoping things out as far as driving jobs in the oil and gas industry. Any thoughts or advice??
I've never worked in Texas but as far as Wyoming goes, right now is a good time to start working in the oil field. Things are definitely starting to pickup. The frac work is probably the easiest to get into. The moneys good but the work can be long hours, day and night. The production side probably won't pay quite as good but would be more steady work. I hope this helps, if you have more questions just ask away I'll answer the best I can.
Nice job man
Thanks
It’s called a water injection facility... we have them in Utah too.
I love it
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Nice video... What is your recommendation to get into the oil patch? I got my CDL A with hazmat and tanker endorsements Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
baghdadbob121 I would just start applying with companies depending on where you want to work.
Wow I really enjoyed watching that.
Thank you
What kind of an endorsement is needed to do this type of work. It looks pretty cool.
You only need a tanker endorsement but it’s nice to have your hazmat as well.
Nick, where, what city and organization are you workingn for in this video?
Lil xtra horsepower there
How did you learn to navigate your way? There are no signs and I am going to take a guess that there is no signal for GPS to work.
No, everyone has a big map book behind the passenger seat with all the lease maps for every Company in your area...
Thanks for the vid just wanted to offer some advice for future videos. I noticed you double and sometimes triple repeated everything while speaking. I know it feels like during videos you cant have dead air time but that's ok let the visuals and natural sounds around you fill in.
stand out to the side when popping those caps brother. not directly behind it.
I prefer to have two hands on the caps. I always crack one ear first while holding the other closed. I always check for pressure before popping the second ear. A lot of times I’ll leave one ear open so it wouldn’t build pressure.
I have seen people pop them under pressure and get sprayed in the face and really scared.
The tanks are 20 feet tall, not 12 feet. The 400 barrel tanks are 12 diameter. The 500 barrel tanks are 13.5 feet diameter.
These are 12’ 400 bbl tanks.
Is that a Nebeker truck you're driving? I used to work for them in the uinta basin.. That road looks very familiar.
Nevermind.. after watching the whole video I see your not in Utah, it's too flat where you are.
Haha yeah I’m in Wyoming. I’m an owner operator
@@nickw900l yes, I also noticed your sleeper. I'm an owner operator too..are you making any money out there?
@@nickw900l I'm doing the dryvan spot market and it sucks. I'd love to get back to the oilfields.
It was real busy until November then it got slow around here. I have a couple trucks now. I’ve got one truck working in the Douglas area and I do whatever work comes up around Rock Springs. Last week I hauled a load of frac chemicals down to Duchesne. I have a couple MSA’s with companies around here but they aren’t doing anything.
awesome!
Do you have to have a trailer to start or do sub haul through them, where they let you use the trailer? Thank you!
I really depends on the company. Some offer trailers
thinking of heading out there with a new CDL you think I can find work in Water or Sand. Im open to ideas, Thanks
I dunno how much I would do that with low experiance.its a bad idea in nodak.
That looks so fun
You dont even know bad roads. I drive a tri-axle kenworth T880 up in northern BC canada in the mountains working in the oil patch. Running tire chains is a daily thing for us.
Dang! Louden field b 14-15 miles most to diposal! At least ur roads clear.
It would be nice to see a run with radio active waste water and what is done with that?
87RGS never been around any of that.
Good video nick , how long have you been doing hauling ?
Thank you! I’ve been trucking for 15 years.
how do you find the well sites? They dont show up on google maps right?
They may show up but you wouldn’t know exactly which well. Sometime you have to ask someone that knows. Also in the well name it will have the section number. Also engineering company will map wells and pipelines, and we also had hand written maps.
Can you show how you turn the pump on and off as well as how that works
I’d love to but I don’t have the pump on my truck anymore. I know have a blower for hauling sand. Sorry.
How long do u need have your CDL license before u can start in your industry
Hey bud I also work out here in the Wyoming rigs what part of Wyoming you working outta??
I’m out of Rock Springs, how about you?
If u had to drive at night how would u know where to go and wht roads to take.... do they come up on gps?
A lot of them don't come up on GPS because they are new. Most companies will give you pretty decent directions. I've had companies that pay to have maps built with sections and well numbers put on them. After you work in the area for awhile you figure out where everything is pretty quick.
Do you need to have a Hazmat indorsment to qualify???
No you do not. Some places you may need it for certain work but it was never needed for the work I did.
How many hours did you end up charging that day?
Boy it’s been along time. I don’t remember.
Hi Nick, How do you like living in Rocksprings? I hauled frac sand in ND for a little while. Is Wyoming going okay.
Rock Springs is dead right now. There is no oil field activity to speak of. Really sad sight around here. I’ve been belly dumping and I have a van trailer that I’ll be running over the road when needed.
@@nickw900l Wow, Hopefully it will pick up after the election. Stay Safe out there. 🇺🇸👍
Things aren’t looking good on the election front but we will survive.
@@nickw900l I think Fraud is Nation Wide and running rampant 😒
Yeah seems kinda fishy to me.
I wonder the same thing out here in NV between Vegas and Reno there is ruffly 30,000 wild horse's and there is no water out here
It’s amazing how they survive
Nick Duncombe ya it really is. Every summer the BLM hires a company to round up a big group of them because they are worried about them not having food or water but every single time they do this they kill between 10 and 30 every round up from exhaustion because they won't stop until they are in the corral they set up and there in a helicopter pushing them. I'm sure that there's a video on RUclips you can see from those events
Are you a owner op or company driver? Are you paid on a contract, per load, or per hour?
Owner op when I filmed this video I was paid by the barrel. Most of the oil fields here in Wyoming pay by the barrel any more.
12:17 for real, I felt that. 😂
😂😂😂
Been doing sand in west texas looking into getting into water tired of those extremely long waits at wells haha
Yeah I’ve hauled sand and water. Each have their positives and negatives
what pays more, hauling water, crude, or frac sand? l hear people talking about $10,000 at month, is that true? how much you guys are actually bringing home? l mean net, after all expances.
It's all up and down off and on. You could be sitting a week while the others are busy, then you get busy and the others are sitting. Sand is probably the easiest and cleanest.
Hauling a pnumatic trailer pays the most then it's hauling a sand box then it's water hauling. But water hauling is more consistent and more exhausting because since it pays less you need to get more loads in compared to sand hauling. While sand hauling can be exhausting too because of all the sitting and waiting. Imagine being up all day waiting for a load then after 14hrs of waiting for work just when you want to go to sleep you get called in to get loaded will you turn it down or go out and do it? So it's your preference sit and wait all day then get 2 to 3 sand loads. or turn and burn spinning your wheels all day hauling water at the fraction of what it pays to haul sand.
Where im at crude pays percentage per load bout 29% of each load so its on u to get as many as u can and haulin water pays by the hour i picked haulin water elogs so everythings by the book i aint getn rich but i aint eating ramen either but i do get to spend more time with my family than the other types of haulin and sand couldnt tell u never wanted to go that route
Nice shades! What kind are they ? Oakleys ??
Yes Oakleys, not OSHA approved.
Any advice on how to get a job like this? Where to start? I don't even have a cdl but I'm 23 and this looks up my ally
hello, do you use frac tanks. Tell please what people carring in frack tanks?
Not really sure what you mean by frac tank. There are frac tanks which are square single axle trailers they use on frac’s to store water for fracing.
@@nickw900l thanks
I only have a 3A right now, is there any jobs where that would be useable in the oil field or would a 1A be neccesary.
Not sure what a 3A is. I haven’t worked in the oilfield for 5 years. Rates are way too low in my area.
@nickw900l I'm in Canada, I can drive trucks without a trailer only. To get 1A which is with trailer I have to do a mandatory course which a guy has to come up with 10000 for
Wow!! You should look for a job using what you have and hopefully they will pay for you to get the upgrade.
Do you prefer sand hauling rather than water hauling?
Each has it advantages and disadvantages. It’s good to be able to do both
Another driver who failed to chock his tractor wheels to secure it should his brakes fail. Also failed to hook up his ground cable before hooking hose to tank opening valve and engaging his pump to prevent static electricity by transfer of fluids. No PPE coveralls or H2S monitor on his person. Obviously a sweet field but still, would not be driving up here in Canada!
David Smyth good grief
He’s wearing all his PPE. (FR clothing and hard hat, safety glasses, gloves and steel toes.) Depends on the area to have to wear an H2S monitor. In North Dakota they rarely wear them.
Also chocking is as per producer, a lot of predicted don’t require this. Same with grounding cables.
David Smyth Well good thing he isn’t in Canada he is in the US different rules everywhere!
you said sand creek and i thought "well that doesnt look like anything south of Rangely!!"
Nope it’s north of Rangely
Na I understand that! Looks good, Stay Safe! Happy New Year!
They should take some of that oil field water money and build a road!
Thanks
You still hauling? Making my first semi purchase soon and looking to haul water near Douglas. Any advice?
I have a truck working in the Wright area. I might be going up that way to work also. Real slow around the Rock Springs area right now.
Lots of work still around this way. Let me know of you come up. I want to grab a truck and get to work but hesitant to pull the trigger. Shopping for a truck can be daunting
Thanks a lot for your efforts it take a lot of time to video tape and edit I have a quick question
1- do you come in contact with the sand they use as an injection for the wells? I would like to do this but want to stay faaaar away from the sand they use for injection because of it its high health risks
Thanks
I am currently hauling frac sand. The sand dust is the only thing that is hazardous. They have changed a lot of things to make it safer. A lot of places the sand his hauled in boxes not pneumatic trailers. The pneumatic trailers create dust, so when unloading with a pneumatic they have dust collecting systems and you are required to wear a respirator.
Hauling production water you won’t come in contact with silica dust but there are other hazards like H2S and benzene. You just want to lean and be aware of the risks and have the proper PPE.
@@nickw900l Thanks for taking the time to answer this even with new ways of hauling still concerns me as there are leaks everywhere(pipes , dust collection, gaskets, etc..) not to mention suspended dust in the air. I am not concerned with H2S or benzen as there are many control measures for them specially with monitors, I do understand that they are very dangerous.
Another question if you would,
When you say water hauling you dong come in contact with the dust, how far is the dust operation from the water hauling ? are we talking miles or feets? again my concern is with suspended dust
in the air
The water hauling I’ve done is production which is long after they frac so there is no dust anywhere. But every now and then I’d have to haul water for frac support. Most of the time it’s away from the frac on a separate location so it’s really not near the frac. Yes I understand the dust collection isn’t great and I can’t believe they don’t require more people on frac’s to wear respirators.
Nick Duncombe Thanks a lot again you have been very helpful and inspired me to keep looking for these type of jobs as I’ve almost gave up due to reasons discussed above .i have more insight now and can be particular with my job search thanks again and good luck we might cross pass st some point
Hey Nick, what are usual weights you haul? Will a Volvo work out ?
Most of the water hauling is off road so the loads are pretty heavy. I’ve never weighed a load but I figure it’s around 90,000. A Volvo would be fine but the plastic tends to rattle off trucks like that.
Nick Duncombe how about frac sand? I have heard people are making around 60k gross in this industry, is it real?
As an owner operator I feel you can make more money hauling sand. It’s more highway driving but the work can be inconsistent. I am actually hauling sand now, and it’s really busy. I’d say it’s easier on a truck as well.
Nick Duncombe ok, thanks Nick. Have a nice day.