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Mar 3, 2015

TRUCKERS JOB OPPORTUNITIES * USA: Oilfield employee cutbacks may benefit long-haul trucking

* Pennsylvania - Oil companies offered lucrative, short-haul jobs

-- Oil company job cuts that cost machinery operator Drew Sanford his spot at Halliburton Co. are shaping up as a boom for truckers desperate for big-rig drivers... Equipped with a commercial license, the 30-year-old Sanford left North Dakota and landed at Oklahoma City-based Stevens Trucking Co. He is sometimes on the road as long as four days at a stretch, but the working conditions are good, he said, and “I'll probably just stick here for a while” ... His career path is one that his new industry would like to see repeated. As a resurgent economy fuels demand for cargo shipments and sharpens competition for workers, mass firings in the oil patch amid the collapse in crude markets may help trucking companies ease an estimated shortage of 35,000 long-haul drivers... Attracting and retaining drivers is one of the biggest challenges for long-haul trucking companies, which can have annual driver turnover of more than 100 percent, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Lee Klaskow and Talon Custer... With the global oil industry poised to cut 50,000 or more jobs, over-the-road truckers could see 10,000 to 12,000 drivers become available for work, according to Brad Delco, a Stephens Inc. analyst in Little Rock ... Oil companies offered lucrative, short-haul jobs that let employees get home to family and friends at night. That added to recruiting hurdles for traditional long-haul operators, according to Stephens' Delco... (Photo: Tractor-trailer rigs hauling frac sand are photographed near Midland TX en route to a drilling rig. As many as 40 loads of frac sand are needed to frac each stage of a horizontally drilled well. A well may have 12 to 16 stages. The demand for frac sand hauling has brought truck fleets from all over the United States to the oil and gas shale regions) - Pittsburgh, PENN, USA - Bloomberg News/TRIV Live - Feb. 27, 2015

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