Hauling crude in Corpus Christi TX

If you have tanker and hazardous-mat endorsement, you can find work in south Texas. Hourly wages range from $18-29 per hour, plus overtime. My best week was $2485 in one week--paid 109 hours for 50 hours of actual work. So, why did I leave? Because I wanted to come home, and home was not in south Texas.
Be prepared to learn how to speak a foreign language. Another problem are the illegals, and they're getting meaner: drivers who've been murdered and their trucks stolen. If you haul crude oil, you will load out in the middle of nowhere, in the dark, and at all hours of the day and night. However, working on-site at oil rigs the security is good.
HOS rules are different in Texas. They allow for more hours on-duty with an 8 hour break, and the company can call you at the seven hour mark to go to work.
Good luck out there and stay safe!

 

I lived in Corpus for 5 years, I frequently come back down here, actually sitting in Calallen right now.

Here are some things you need to know, first of all Nueces County has some of the highest property taxes in the state, and they just almost DOUBLED the rate.

Also CCPD has their own "DOT" officers, the guy who is in charge of them is a hard nosed know it all prick and a dirty cop to boot.

Once you get out of town in this area you have a whole lot of overzealous small town cops who make money for their town by writing tickets left right and sideways, the whole length of 77 from Corpus to Victoria is usually peppered with cops, and between Corpus and Houston, it is not uncommon to see 5-15 of them. They are out for the money.

I have been lucky myself, the worst I have got on that run was an overweight ticket that the company paid because they knowingly told me to run with it.

I did however spend a couple of years dispatching and playing safety man, and let me tell you it was a constant headache sending drivers up that direction.

You also have a really bad DPS cop who hangs out between Robstown and Agua Dulce, he will pull you over and hand you a seatbelt ticket when you are wearing a seat belt, and tell you if you want to argue it you can take it to court, when you take it to court you are going to find he is on a first name basis with the Judge in Agua Dulce, and they are going to tell you to shut up and pay it.

There is so much corruption like that in the area here, you really need to be aware before you come down, they like writing tickets and lots of them.

When I was working for the crane company here we were constantly fighting something one of our guys got, and our trucks were neutered at 65.

They also watch the tankers here like a hawk because people keep stealing them, a guy stole a truck right out of the refinery a couple of years back and then rolled it going around the corner to the harbor bridge and split the tanker wide open, that was a mess for months as they dug up all of the dirt and removed it and brought clean dirt in.

My personal preference is to stay north of I-10 and these are the reasons why.

 

Yes there is plenty of work down here. Weather was brutal during the summer. It's much nicer now though.

 

Can anyone give me information about Pumpco? Do they hire drivers straight out of driving school, I graduated Friday with all endorsements, any information would be appreciated Thank you. -Val-

 

I have a friend he working in enterprise a make goood money check with them

 

I agree with Valbarr, any info on Pumpco would be of great help

 

It was dry. But overall it was kind of cool compared to normal. Gulf is not that hot. No hurricanes -yet. S TX is always going to be hot and the closer to coast humid.

 

So what crude hauling companies are worth working for near corpus?

 

What company were you working before to make that top dollar???

 

Wheres Pumpco located at?