Best way to find hookups or parks
Hi everyone. I am so new at this that we haven't purchased our RV yet. We have been looking and searching for the perfect model in our price range for long term living possibly a year or more. My husb...
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I am well aware that the oil industry has been going on for quite some time. We have been involved for years and years now. Our consulting business is new not our experience within the field. Also, just this week we have been on 16 different rig sites. Nine of which had RV's parked right on site. Some of the guys that are not given shacks when on remote locations (80-90) miles round trip to the nearest hotel even sleep in truck campers in ALL weather. Each rig site also has insulated water tanks and sewage lines with electricity supplied by multiple generators. The shacks that ARE on site are often BARELY more than a glorified RV and we had to practically live out of a two room shack for three months last winter near Kimball Nebraska. The refinery going up is NE of Greeley not all that far from the Wells Ranch. It is a VERY important part of the pipelining that is going on in the state right now. There are 19 BRAND new rigs going up in the next 3 months for just ONE drilling company that we work with.
As for the RV, thank you very much for all of your listings. I especially am appreciative for the advice for winter living too. :) I can tell you they have been VERY helpful! We found a beautiful RV that is winter rated. Going to pay them cash for it tomorrow. The dealer came off the listed price by nearly 20k since we are paying in cash too. We found a few places that have direct TV hookups offered and electricity with city water hookups. The Direct TV is nice since we are customers and can use our own boxes and get the channels we pay for. We will be purchasing our propane through a friend at "cost" also.
Being involved with several oil/gas industry forums and following the blogs of other wives and families living camper style has me pretty convinced we will be just fine. Since my husband has to be on site several weeks at a time (this last one was 5 weeks straight) and they are all over the Pawnee Grasslands right now which is close to NOTHING...it is best for us to stay mobile. I have to travel to the sites two to three days out of the week also for business. The other factor involved here is this RV will also be considered an asset to our business. When we are done and have found the land/home we want we will be using it for some of our out of town crew members to stay in and purchase another for our own recreation.
Again, thanks for the websites and advice I am gathering quite a list of possibilities and taking notes for things that I need to be sure to check into. :)
As for the RV, thank you very much for all of your listings. I especially am appreciative for the advice for winter living too. :) I can tell you they have been VERY helpful! We found a beautiful RV that is winter rated. Going to pay them cash for it tomorrow. The dealer came off the listed price by nearly 20k since we are paying in cash too. We found a few places that have direct TV hookups offered and electricity with city water hookups. The Direct TV is nice since we are customers and can use our own boxes and get the channels we pay for. We will be purchasing our propane through a friend at "cost" also.
Being involved with several oil/gas industry forums and following the blogs of other wives and families living camper style has me pretty convinced we will be just fine. Since my husband has to be on site several weeks at a time (this last one was 5 weeks straight) and they are all over the Pawnee Grasslands right now which is close to NOTHING...it is best for us to stay mobile. I have to travel to the sites two to three days out of the week also for business. The other factor involved here is this RV will also be considered an asset to our business. When we are done and have found the land/home we want we will be using it for some of our out of town crew members to stay in and purchase another for our own recreation.
Again, thanks for the websites and advice I am gathering quite a list of possibilities and taking notes for things that I need to be sure to check into. :)
