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Fordlover wrote:catfishmontana wrote:
I too am in the oil industry. Living on site on a drilling location 24 hours a day, I see hot shotters come and go. I can count on one hand the number of GM hot shot trucks I have seen over the last few months. I would say Ram is 75%, Ford 22%, and GM 3% of the heavy haulers. As far as service trucks, I would flip the ford and ram figures. Then the half ton trucks drove by sales persons, engineers, and folks getting tickets signed seem to have Chevy holding the majority of the half tons I see. Rarely do I see a half ton Ram on location other than the roughnecks personal vehicles. This being in the Bakken, and of course staying on the same rig all the time, a large chunk of the traffic is repeat business.
Agree completely. I work for one of the largest oilfield services & supply companies, and if it's not a class 8 type rig moving equipment, it's typically a Ram haulling the hot shot goosnecks. Sometimes a Ford, and basically never a GM.
In my experience the hot shot guys don't really 'haul heavy.' BOP's, large assemblies, etc. go on the big trucks, the hot shot guys are usually moving loads of <10K lbs. Being on site your experience might be different.
I see a few 10,000 plus loads. Not many, but some. Usually those loads are my directional tools. Mud motors, monels, subs, and MWD kit boxes. But you are right, I should not have probably said heavy haul.
