Information Discussion for Gate Guards

Conoco was the one that redid the pad for us last year. Good company to be with.

Conoco has been so good to us on the size of the RV site. In the beginning, the sites were not quite wide enough for motor homes with slide-outs. They are making them wider and longer now. Our present pad is probably 75 ft long and and 20 ft or more wide!! Our rig man always tells us where the next rig site will be so we can go check out the RV pad a few weeks ahead of the move. Yesterday I checked out our next site and gave them an OK.

Texan, just wanted to let you know we have heard the same thing about Jay he was here at the Gonzales lot and does not like the fact that people are staying here and using his utilities while waiting for a site.
We have also been told that a company is underbidding GGS and paying $100.00 a day and provides a FEMA trailer. Do you know anything about this?

on another note, I remember you put a list together of all the gate guard services could you please send to me.

Thanks very much.

Last year they had to redo a pad for us near Cuero, as there was no way I was going to attempt to get to it or to be level, once there. A call to the company had a contractor there within an hour and the pad redone by the next day. These companies will redo it, if they are notified.

The reason I am asking is last year when we tried to get in a drill site we broke our hitch due to the depth of the site. This year we are caustious as this is our only home and definitely do not wish to twist our frame or hitch again. We do this for extra money and for general maintenace. But since they made a comment, I was curious as to how other workers feel getting into other sites that are questionable.

Ours is a 2005, bought new and we have been doing this since 2007 as full timers. If you use a little common sense and appropiate house cleaning, there is no need to worry about ruining an RV. Our hunting and fishing expeditions, or our trips into the boonies to go off roading in the summer, are more apt to cause problems, than setting at a gate working.

lizr49 wrote:
How many of you that or doing gate guard work are also fulltime RV'ers? I am asking as we overheard a comment today in the lot that maybe they should get an old trailer so they do not have to worry about their trailer getting messed up. The one site they asked if we wanted would not even fit our 5th wheel with the slides out.
any and all info is appreciated.

There are many schools of thought in the "fulltime" world when it comes to purchasing your "home" on wheels. We bought an older Class A and absolutely love it. We love having a generator on board and the ease of setting up. We can be leveled, hooked up and even have the satellite on line in less than an hour. We also have pets, so not fretting over the furniture is a big plus. One last thing (which ever way you decide)-don't obsess over the mud that gets tracked in out here. We have found it much easier to let it dry, then vacuum.

lizr49 wrote:
We have been sitting in the yard in Gonzales for 8 days. Starting to wander if there is going to be some work coming soon. We have worked for them previously so I do not understand.

Hang in there. One thing I have discovered is that if a couple is scheduled for time off or leaving for the season and they know their replacement is sitting in the wings ready to go it gets the best of them sometimes. Next thing you know, they have decided to leave a few days early.

We finally got into GGS today to get registered and licensed. From what they're telling us right now, it's potentially quite a wait. I heard 18 couples (or was it 20 couples) ahead of us, the service yards with the hookups are basically all full, and it could be a month before we actually get a gate. That said, great people and it sounds like they're going to get us into a hookup yard next week hopefully to wait out whatever time we have to wait out - which after talking with them more I don't get the full impression is likely to be a month, but maybe rather a week or two (maybe 3) - I think they mostly wanted to make sure we knew it *could be* that long before we dropped money on licensing and decided to stick around on standby and such (all in all I think we're $200 into it.. license, fingerprinting, and gas back and forth around town - not counting what it took to get here of course) But we're excited and looking forward to the experience. Since we got into this so much later than we'd hoped, we're talking about sticking around into the summer (for probably about as long as we can bear the heat/humidity) while we figure out where the next part of our journey takes us :)

lizr49 wrote:
We have been sitting in the yard in Gonzales for 8 days. Starting to wander if there is going to be some work coming soon. We have worked for them previously so I do not understand.

2 days ago their were 9 waiting at the Whitsett yard.


Terry