Looks like a good place to work/start. I’d love to work there and get my PIC . Also the “points” thing is kind of cool.
I’m sorry if this question sound dumb.what does PIC mean? What kind of work of it.I’m very new to all this
Person in charge, makes you able to be the tanker man responsible for transferring fuel barge/shore
Have you applied to the tug companies in Norfolk??
Mcallister
Moran
Norfolk tug
Intracoastal marine
Robbins maritime
Weeks has a unit here
Ward bros
Vane bros
Plus a few mom and pops
Have you contacted Allied towing, there home office is in VA. There are several little mom and pop companies there as well, I can’t remember all of them, I am guessing they should be in the phone book though.
how about oiler?
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Atleast 75% of Kirby’s inland fleet is small uninspected tugs that do not require an engineer or oiler. They do have a few boats that they use a deckineer on. Which is a deck hand slash oiler. They have a few larger tugs that work the Mississippi river system. On those boats they do have engineers, mostly unilcensed, and a few might have oilers. Those will be mostly the 3000 H.P. to the biggest thing they have which is around 6000H.P. They don’t have very many of them, and there used to be a waiting list to get those jobs. They bought the K-Sea fleet out, so some of them probably have oilers. You would have to call corporate HQ in houston to find out those answers.
Allied hires out of the SIU hall.
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Did you see the QMED, oiler, and unlicensed engineer jobs posted in the maritime jobs thread?
I just wanted everyone for giving me good info. This forum is good a newb like. Yal are good people.
Regarding travel. Although not solely related to Kirby, this applies to all. There is no ‘hard and fast’ rule regarding travel. It is different at most companies.
You have to be aware about travel to and from vessel. This can be a huge cost, or a huge benefit. You need to ask these questions BEFORE signing on.
Some companies pay door to door travel coming and going.
Some companies pay one way. (figuring that is half the cost)
Some companies pay based upon a radius from their ‘designated home port’ whether that is one place or several. ( IIRC, Kirby falls into this category.)
Some of these home port companies will only allow crew change when AT one of these home ports. So, you may have to wait until return to the home port
Some companies will NOT hire you unless you live within a certain radius of one of their home ports.
Some companies use fleet vans, if crew change is a distance from the home port, and every one must meet up at home port and hop in a van to go to work. Some crew carpool together, and split costs. Some are forced to ‘join’ the Captain’s carpool, and pay higher than rental care ‘fares’ for this privilege! (Thanks Capt asshole)
Now for the money aspect:
Some companies pay you an extra daily stipend to cover anticipated crew change costs. (Bouchard is the biggest name that comes to mind here.)
However this increase in daily wage means that if they call and you have to fly to east bumfuck it’s on your credit card, and if extra costs are involved, that’s also out of your pocket. And if you are travelling alone, that can be a HUGE cost for launches, hotels (if the boat is late) or turning around and going to another airport altogether, if the tug changes destination en route. I have heard that some guys are allowed to choose either the stipend OR the office will pay for travel, but you can’t switch back and forth.
Some companies pay only to select few employees, and hold that as leverage to negotiate wages.
Some companies pay a stipend for travel within a certain distance from home port, and then make up the extra for travel outside the normal area.
Some companies will only pay travel if you work XX amount of days, so long(er) hitches are required to have paid travel.
Some companies will ‘nickle and dime’ you over receipts, and make you wait months for reimbursement for travel.
So, these are further questions to factor into the pay, and distance equation when looking for and accepting work.
Thanks very much! I need to start keeping a notebook handy when reading on here. So some companys might have “lower day rates” but make up for it by paying more for your travel. So you have to look at more than just the “day rate” when looking at a job. Interesting. So the $300 a day dream job might not be so dreamy after all… Very,Very good point Thank you!!!
If you can get a $300/day take it! Traveling cost is nothing compared to that.
It is if you are traveling from the U.P. of MI! I may have to relocate to the radius of the job/port. My in-laws still live on the Gulf coast of Ala. Provided PLANNED flights can be found for about $350…un planned can run as much as 600-700 RT. Plus I have to drive 50 miles (Green Bay) or 175 -> Millwakee… in the summer no problem, in the winter it can be impossiable. Snows like hell up here sometimes. The damm ice can kill you. Good example my wife and mother went down to Milwakee to pick up my son in Dec, the wind blew them off the road - ice - and turned over the KIA sorento. Icount my blessings everyday on that one. I could have lost my mother,wife and son in one lick…makes ya think alot.
But for that kind of day rate you could afford the travel I guess.
Hey I was just wondering if anyone knows how long it takes to get a clear for hire with Kirby inland marine ? It’s been 3 weeks any help would be cool thanks!