Oil boom in TX can help deaf/hh on employment? Have a CDL?

[kokonut]

Truck drivers
Workforce experts say the workers most in demand are experienced truck drivers who hold a commercial driver's license, or CDL, and are certified to transport hazardous materials and who also are certified to drive commercial tank vehicles.

Average pay for drivers of heavy trucks and tractor-trailers averages $16.30 an hour, while pay for more experienced drivers approaches $20 an hour, said Strause, dean of institutional advancement at Coastal Bend College, a community college with locations in Alice, Beeville, Kingsville and Pleasanton.

"If you have a CDL, that's your ticket in," Strause said, because so many companies need drivers for hydraulic-fracturing trucks, saltwater disposal trucks, drilling-mud trucks, equipment trucks and "just anything that goes on a rig pad."

So many drivers are needed that "we've had drug-testing companies contact us because they need more qualified people to do drug tests to hire CDL drivers," said Eva Esquivel, communications manager for Workforce Solutions Alamo.

"There is a vast array of opportunities related to this, and it's not just field work," Esquivel added. Workforce Solutions Alamo is working with 22 employers in Atascosa, Frio, Medina, and Karnes counties that seek laborers, office clerks, inventory controllers, dispatchers and field-service technicians.

Yay! Oil boom in Texas!!

But drilling in the Eagle Ford, a 400-mile-long formation stretching from East Texas to Webb County, has touched off a hiring frenzy in South Texas that is generating thousands of jobs. Now, drilling is moving so swiftly that the scramble for workers has caught some short. Drug-testing companies don't have enough employees to administer tests. The Texas Railroad Commission, the industry regulator, has openings because oil and gas companies have hired away longtime veterans from its field offices.

Not all of the jobs are in the oil patch. Oil companies have quickly opened field offices to supervise drilling in San Antonio and nearby cities. A Canadian oil-services company is now the biggest employer in Cibolo, and oil field service companies are bidding top dollar for space in Pleasanton's once- moribund industrial park.

The job explosion is expected to continue.

Last year, the Eagle Ford shale generated 6,800 full-time jobs and paid $311 million in salaries and benefits, according to a study completed in February by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Community and Business Research.

"You could eventually see 20,000 to 30,000 wells drilled in the play. You could have more than 10 billion barrels of oil through time. And the oil economics just keep getting better, so companies want to expand in this region."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/7574751.html

 

[Foxrac]

Depend on federal law and states, profoundly deaf people cannot get CDL and only HOH with decent hearing with hearing aids can, however stories may be different for CI users with full oral language function, it is cases to other cases.

I'm not qualified to get CDL at all and you should know why, also it isn't only about deaf.

 

[Beowulf]

Dunes Sagebrush Lizard to another: "Pssst. We will spread our territory and stop the bastards cold. Spread the word."

 

[saywhatkid]

Do we credit Obama for this surge in jobs? Or is a trickle-down effect of Bush?

 

[Beowulf]

Do we credit Obama for this surge in jobs? Or is a trickle-down effect of Bush?

We can all applaud Clinton. That dude sure had foresight!

 

[kokonut]

Do we credit Obama for this surge in jobs? Or is a trickle-down effect of Bush?

I see no indication of him being friendly to oil companies, coal, gas and such. Or any real hard push to increase domestic oil a and gas production. All of this foot dragging is predicated on his firm belief about CO2 and the so-called ACW (Anthropogenic Climate Change).

His admin. has given little support for shale technology and the expansion of the U.S.'s natural gas resources. Instead, he has increased negotiation for *MORE* oil imports from such nations as Venezuela. He practically gave up potential oil over to Cuba, and at the same time bowed and scrapped his knuckles on the ground on the need for increased oil from Saudi Arabia. Give me one good reason why he should be credited for the Texas oil boom when he's pretty much against the idea or receptively cool to any U.S. domestic oil and gas developments in the first place?

 

[saywhatkid]

Give me one good reason why he should be credited for the Texas oil boom when he's pretty much against the idea or receptively cool to any U.S. domestic oil and gas developments in the first place?

I asked about the job market, not the oil industry. I thought the main crux of this thread was jobs. I wanted to know if you felt this was an indication that things might be turning around for those people that are not working. Sorry I spoke.

 

[kokonut]

I asked about the job market, not the oil industry. I thought the main crux of this thread was jobs. I wanted to know if you felt this was an indication that things might be turning around for those people that are not working. Sorry I spoke.

This thread is about the oil boom in Texas related to, what else, oil.

Are you asking me in general or because of this oil boom on jobs?

 

[deafskeptic]

Do we credit Obama for this surge in jobs? Or is a trickle-down effect of Bush?

You shouldn't ever give Obama any credit. He gets the blame while Bush get the credit no matter how long he's out of the office.

 

[Foxrac]

I see no indication of him being friendly to oil companies, coal, gas and such. Or any real hard push to increase domestic oil a and gas production. All of this foot dragging is predicated on his firm belief about CO2 and the so-called ACW (Anthropogenic Climate Change).

His admin. has given little support for shale technology and the expansion of the U.S.'s natural gas resources. Instead, he has increased negotiation for *MORE* oil imports from such nations as Venezuela. He practically gave up potential oil over to Cuba, and at the same time bowed and scrapped his knuckles on the ground on the need for increased oil from Saudi Arabia. Give me one good reason why he should be credited for the Texas oil boom when he's pretty much against the idea or receptively cool to any U.S. domestic oil and gas developments in the first place?

lol.

Nice joke, entire of your post is false.

 

[Foxrac]

You shouldn't ever give Obama any credit. He gets the blame while Bush get the credit no matter how long he's out of the office.

Yup, obviously and kokonut is one of them who blame on Obama at all time.

Toobad, our government is too smaller and kokonut can't get anything what he wants.