Does Any One Or Has Anyone Driven For Links Logistics?

I am a newby and would like to know if Links Logistics is a good company to drive for. I would like to know specifically about driving in the Keenesburg, CO area. Thanks

I am a newby and would like to know if Links Logistics is a good company to drive for. I would like to know specifically about driving in the Keenesburg, CO area. Thanks

Ric M.

I have looked into them and did look into their driving quite a bit several months ago. I can tell you as much as I know, so far, if you're interested. What did you want to know?

-mountain girl

Hey Mountain Girl,

I would like to know if they take new drivers without experience and if so, what kind of training if any do they provide? Is Links a good company to work for, do you know how they treat their employees? Do they offer any kind of daily pay guarantee on top of load pay? I guess In general, I would like to know anything you can tell us about this company and the working conditions that you are aware of and willing to share.

Any help or advice is much appreciated, thank you!

Hey Mountain Girl,

I would like to know if they take new drivers without experience and if so, what kind of training if any do they provide? Is Links a good company to work for, do you know how they treat their employees? Do they offer any kind of daily pay guarantee on top of load pay? I guess In general, I would like to know anything you can tell us about this company and the working conditions that you are aware of and willing to share.

Any help or advice is much appreciated, thank you!

-Ric

Hey Ric.

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. It has been a long and busy week. I've only applied to Links but I've interacted with them several times. When I asked the recruiter from where he was recruiting his best new drivers, he gave me the name of the school and that's where I ended up going. (If you need details, personal message me and I'll give them to you). So, in that regard, Links Logistics was a significant starting point for me, as I went from the recruiter's claims about the driving school and then attended and worked my tail off to succeed. I can tell you this much: They did accept my application as a new driver when I first completed my CDL school, however, they were particular about their standards. All of my speeding tickets at the time were older than 3 years, but there were 3 of them in the past 7 years. With that, the recruiter offered me a an open door to the company, once I'd had 6 months of commercial driving experience with a perfect record during that time. He said once I'd accomplished that, he'd bring me on without hesitation. He didn't say that all drivers must have at least 6 months of experience, so I got the impression that they did accept new drivers. That said, I could be wrong and maybe "the deal" he was offering was his way of telling all new drivers to come back in 6 months.

He told me that their drivers haul sand and water to and from the oil fields and rail heads up in Brighton and the surrounding Weld County area as well as Grand Junction, using dry pneumatic tankers. Each driver is on-call 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. You'd be on stand-by, wait for your call from dispatch and have an hour or so, to come in to work. There was plenty of work and you could count on being called in every day because Links Logistics responds to its clients by showing up and doing the support work for the oil companies, whenever they're needed, which is all the time but they work on-call for the clients. I don't remember exactly but I believe drivers were paid hourly plus overtime whenever overtime kicks in. Shifts were approximately 10-12 hours, maybe more depending on how much off-road time there was. The pay if I remember correctly, was very good but I cannot remember how much ...$60-70k in the first year? I don't believe drivers got paid by the load but rather by the hour. I don't know as much about Hours of Service in the off-road setting but there would be a lot of off-road driving. That said, I think there are ways that these types of companies push/allow their drivers to drive longer than the DOT 10 hours-a-day because hours off public roads don't count against driving hours and I got the impression that work days often ran up to 12- and 14-hour days, with most of them behind the wheel. I am not familiar with the full details of that but I'm pretty sure I'm at least correct on the fact that hours are considerably long. There's a lot of donning of hazmat gear, climbing up and down the tankers, and outdoor work. The pay is supposedly very good but from what I understood, yes, you can go home at the end of the day, but you'd turn around very quickly the next day and go back.

At first, this was one of my top 2 choices in companies to work for because the money was very attractive, but in my case, as a single mom, I was never going to be home much and while I consider myself to be a strong individual, I thought the risk of falling asleep behind the wheel was pretty high for me. Everyone has their tolerance level and if you can handle it, more power to you, but 10 hours of driving a day, plus the drive to and from work, is my upper limit.

On the more positive side, I did get the impression that this was a hard-charging, growing company and with that kind of energy, there might have been a healthy degree of enthusiasm and drive (no pun intended) with a go-getter kind of attitude. That part and everyone wanting to make some good money, certainly was attractive to me as well.

Good Luck to you. Let us know how everything goes. We'd all love to hear back from you, either way.

Stay safe out there.

-mountain girl

Thanks Mountain Girl,

I understand that you are a busy Girl!! Thank you for sharing your experience.

I ended up reaching out to one of their recruiters the other day and he told me that they do take new drivers without experience but they prefer experience...which makes sense. He said that they give you two weeks of training, which I am still not real clear on exactly what kind of training. The two things that made this a deal-killer for me was that you are paid by the load only at $80-100/load without any kind of guarantee. And number 2; I don't know if he is correct on this one, but he told me that you live out of your truck for 30 days straight and then you get 10 days off...NOT FOR ME AT ALL!!

I hope this helps anyone out there that may want to get some oilfield experience without having any. I would encourage anyone that might want to persue this opportunity to call Links Logistics recruiting dept. and ask some very specific questions.

Thanks again Mountain Girl for all of your input.