Questions to ask your oil field recruiter

Hi Everybody!

I've been compiling a list of questions to ask oil field recruiters and/or their companies. I'm not in the oil fields (yet), so I gleaned this information from the many outstanding and informative threads others have posted. Please feel free to add/subtract/correct and/or comment on the list below!

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR OIL FIELD RECRUITER

1. Do you provide housing?

2. Do you provide temporary housing for people relocating from out-of-state?

3. Do you provide orientation? Where is it located? How long? Are travel expenses paid? Is attendance paid?#

4. Do you have a training program? How long is training period? Who will be training me? What is pay rate during training?#

5. Are trucks assigned to one driver, or is this slip-seat operation? Does truck have a sleeper? Can employees live in truck?

6. How long is the average workday? How many hours per week will I average? How many days a week do we work?#

7. Do you have rotating schedule? What is the rotation? Can you bank time off?

8. How many loads can I expect to haul per day? How many total loads can I expect per week?#

9. What is your hourly pay rate? Are employees paid weekly or bi-monthly? Do you have direct deposit?#

10. Is there a pay differential between day and night crews?#

11. What percentage of load do you pay (25%, 30%)? #What is the average load pay? Is pay based on gross or net load? How is my pay calculated?
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12. Do you pay detention time? What is the rate? Do you provide pay for breakdowns?

13. Do you have an onsite shop? Do you have a dedicated mobile mechanic service?

14. What benefits do you provide? What do they cost? Does medical cover family members? What is the waiting period before I am eligible?

15. Do you have paid holidays and/or sick days? How many per year?

16. Do you pay airfare for travel home/return to duty? Do you provide a motel for reset?

17. Will I be paid during my reset? How much? For what period of my reset am I being paid (the day or the week)?
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18. Do you pay per-diem? What is the per-diem rate?#

(NOTE: Per-diem is not usually paid because you sleep in your bed at night)
(CAUTION: Per-diem is not taxed & does not count as income for loans or unemployment purposes).
(CAUTION: If you take per-diem, you cannot take $59.00 tax deduction)

19. Do you run paper or electronic logs?

20. What driver incentives/safety bonuses do you provide? How much do they pay?

21. What type of trucks do you have? What is the average age of your equipment?

22. Are the trucks equipped with CB radios? How will I communicate with the office, shop, and my dispatcher? Do you provide Nextel radios or cell phones to drivers?

23. How many contracts do you have? How long do you expect to service each contract?#

24. Are you hiring me to service contracts now, or to service contracts you expect to acquire in the near future?

25. What is your average employee turnover rate?

26. What is your company’s safety rating (CSA 2010) score?#

 

P.S Ignore the "#" signs throughout the post! I didn't insert them myself. They just appeared! Must be some tpe of formatting demon imported from Microsoft Word! LOL!

 

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Thanks RockinChair!