How Oil Barons Steal From Their Truckers | Ft. John Russell

Haliburton is forcing Texas truckers to wait 32+ hours in their trucks with no restrooms and no pay. Now truckers are furious — and they're revolting.
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[hynuvmv]

People need to wake up because soon the whole country is heading this way regardless of who you work for.

[maplemanz]

I'm so tired of working class folks being fucked over by wealthy people with no empathy.

[georgegeorgepht]

I worked in North Dakota 2013-2015 hauling sand and crude.
Owner operator.
We made 75$ an hour demurge (parking waiting time) after an hour on site. I sat for 3 days one time getting paid.
Rates to haul sand was well paid 2500 - 3500 a day was normal. Every day all day.

Then after 2015 they slowly started taking everything away.
I left
People kept showing up and companies kept taking away.

As long as people show up, the company will
Continue to lower rates.

Stops showing up. Watch things change.

[ArmandoPerez-tjbc]

Sand hauling is brutal. I did it for a couple of years and I wouldn’t wish this job to my worst enemy. Nearly all them companies are violating DOT and running around the clock. Truckers are treated like shit, and no one pays for the time waiting. I have been up to 3 days at a well waiting to get unloaded. There needs to be a Class Action Lawsuit against these giants.

[MindinViolet]

It should be a crime to make truckers wait for hours and days without pay, food, or water. Absolutely disgusting.

[tfsho]

"You broke our backs, now we're going to break your economy" - Billy Randel, 2024

My god what a line lol

[scottmelons]

Halliburton's CEO is Jeff Miller. His total yearly compensation is $19, 910, 000, comprised of 8% salary and 92% bonuses. He was paid 261 times the median annual total compensation of $76, 266.

[oliviaralston]

You work for 40yrs to have $1M in your
retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K in a meme coin from just a few months ago and now they are multimillionaires.

[kimnenninger]

Finally it's being said...this is not "American" oil. It belongs to Billionaires.
Stop making these billionaires richer!!! Stop giving them tax breaks because it does not benefit you in any way shape or form.

[joegug]

I was a truck driver for 20 years and it always the same old. You can’t get truckers organized for nothing. I hope someday it happens but it was dog eat dog out there.

[cleo]

The exploitation of work-purposed individuals alongside the propaganda that goes against the unification of workers will always be why these Texans find themselves working endlessly. The discussion around the exploitation of religious southerners needs to be resurfaced and discussed because this is a historical issue.

[Audiogeek-kfez]

Halibuton is a defense contractor, it has the morst horrible work conditions, it is oushing truckers into the unions

[steveweast]

That old guy has such charisma, he could really help organize that union

[kathrynw]

My friend, who is an owner-operator, worked that job for 2 weeks and then he dropped their trailer and bob tailed all the way back to Maryland. They paid him just enough for the fuel to get home; this is after a few 24-hour waits to unload at the well.

[eriksanchez]

Trucker here, I haul diesel to these frack sites in the permian basin. I see these guys waiting in huge lines all the time. This man speaks the truth about the sand haulers. The issue I see is that these guys are hiring guys from cuba or Mexico, diapatch doesn't give a shit about you having to wait. The people that run these fracs have terrible communication with dispatch. They are told that the work is easy and that they would make a great living, but that's not true. They end up trapped here with the burden of paying a truck thats making peanuts. Beware of these predatory jobs!

[Kathyak]

I worked 14 hours today. I got paid for 467 miles at .58 per mile. No overtime. Trucking companies are paying like this across the board. If you try to unionize they fire you and you’re blackballed. Unless we all come together nothing will ever change. We starve when we do we starve when we don’t.

[RussianJackal]

The entire trucking industry should be torn down and rebuilt form the bottom. I used to have a class A license in the early 2010s, and even tried out over the road work until realizing that it’s not appealing to me, and moving on to other projects.
To this day, trucking companies remain the only work environment I ever encountered where EVERYONE lies. Like, 100% of people. Drivers lie about the distances that they have driven in order not to go over legal limits, and companies screw their drivers on pay and conditions, in a way that it is possible to actually lose money despite working your butt off (John Oliver did a good special on it). Lousy industry that is being steadily destroyed by dishonesty and greed.

[kevinkennedy]

Was a trucker back in early 90s...Worked for a LTL company that was under Teamsters National Freight Agreement. Night and Day versus today. Deregulation in 1980 ruined the trucking industry. Now we have sweat shops on wheels. Organize is answer, but so is re-regulation

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[FrenchFries-uo]

To not let people go to the restroom is just inhumane.