Mad Oilfield Solutions

I was told about some of the negative reviews by one of my coworkers the other day so I decided to log on and see for myself. 
Well I decided to leave my own review, an honest review to help people make an informed decision.
I started with MAD in the spring of 2016, and after my interview I was asked by one of my interviewers "what have you heard about MAD?". I said "I heard that you guys fire a lot of people" and laughed. It was then that my interviewer explained to me, we are looking for a certain type of people. He explained that we are looking for team members that are a MAD fit. People that do good work,  take safety seriously, help each other out and that are willing to learn. I thought about it and as an employer why wouldn't that be the type of person. 
Sure there are always areas for improvement, MAD has room to improve, but I would honestly say we are leaps and bounds ahead of our competitors. 
I've been around for the struggles, seen the ups and downs, the boom and bust. With all of that I also have never seen them take anything away from the operators. When everybody and there dog was receiving wage cuts, not one operator at MAD that received a wage cut. They didn't take away steak night, then didn't cancel their flight program or cancel tier hours (after so long with the company they give you guaranteed hours in case there isn't enough field jobs that day for everyone).
Since I've started with MAD I've learned a ton, they've invested their time into me and earned my loyalty. I feel like I'm part of a team, I come to work everyday and I look forward to getting to see my coworkers. We have fun, crack jokes and most of us enjoy each others company. 
In my time I've seen a lot of people come and go, but most of the good ones are still here. I promise if you come with a good attitude, are willing to work and play by the rules you will not have a bad experience.
Just my opinion


I worked for MAD for just under a year. I had experience around heavy equipment and oilfield work prior, but not to any depth when it came to their services. 

This is truly a sink or swim place of work - and I enjoyed that.  These guys took me in, and trained me to operate a variety of different trucks and their systems.  

There are many complaints here that I have read about how terrible this place is. Sure - I can maybe see that through the lense of someone that has a terrible work ethic and doesn’t try to work themselves into the crew. 

Camp - the camp attendants and cooks are always very friendly and do the best they can everyday. 

Flights - Fair flight program and the person that looks over the flights is very is easy to speak with and very kind. Not many companies even offer flights anymore and these guys havnt stopped it. 

Work is up and down like anything in the oilfield. But from my experience, they never lay the “men” off. The drivers don’t loose hours. Or flights. They will lay office staff off before thinking about laying off drivers. This all comes back to not being lazy. If you are a go-getter you will always have hours. 

I suggest working for MAD, just expect to work and do your best to get along with the crew. It’s tight knit, and they do a great job.  People that lack common sense and work ethic are weeded out pretty quick. Usually by the drivers before management ever knows. 



In my experience, if you want to work a super long rotation with only a few days off winter warriors is great. It's corring rig support with vac and water.
Their pay is slightly less than other companies, but they will train you and keep you busy. Great company to start with. 

I couldn't do the 24 and 4, because my job in the summer is very demanding. So if you can't take a break after the winter run you wilk be burnt out . Also they don't give you a place to stay on those 4 days(at least not in Fort McMurray) so you have to travel on your days off. So essentially its a 25.5 and 2.5 off. Not good for seeing family. Also you don't get paid for those travel days.

The management on site was amazing. In the office not so much, family run and operated. You can be ignored. Not uncommon in vac trucking jobs anyways.

The comradery on site was fantastic. Work culture was good, revolves around safety. If you stay, they'll keep you.

I had the pleasure of getting to know what a scam/sham this outfit is in the fall of 2017 and what a nightmare it was they hire lots an lots of guys with a teaspoon of work when your training is completed. Save your self the headaches and huge dissapointment of it all and stay clear of this joke of a company .the cook listens to everything that is said and reports back to owner and management.  Getting your safety gear is the biggest pain ever checking in an out of this high security trailer lmfao. Main building is like a prison to get in an out of. Sit for days on end waiting for work. In the end I couldn't take it anymore and quit one morning and was drove down to local cafe until I could get out of town and they will deduct from u all your course costs so be ware you have been warned .never go near this establishment .. It will drive you madd lol also 1 more thing the rooms in the camp are like animal kennels . Food is nothing to write home about either anyways keep looking because you can do better. Never would return in 3 lifetimes

Well this place was ok for a bit Management is horrible and never knew who was getting fired next and the ride to grasslands to take a bus to Edmonton and cancel a guys flight home leave him high and dry.
Equipment was good and new and shiny but don’t know about now.Guys I worked with were good supervisors were good but all the good guys are long gone same as all the good supervisors the ones that actually stick up for the guys . The camp was meh it’s a camp the food was good when a certain chef was there then it went to garbage.Never understood why more guys quit sometimes sit in camp for 3-5 days not work and no pay !
Also be aware guys check your paycheque short hours and when you quit or leave after the  cheque gets deposited they will go in your account and take money out for “courses they paid for you apparently “
Also be aware everyone there is related somehow or married into the business careful what you wish for

They hire you, you assume you're hired. Then get to site, to find out if you are not experienced after you already told you weren't and they hire you anyway. Then train you, then go on to do the actual job, then they fire you after you already have been doing the job to say you don't have enough experience.  The job is very simplistic, VAC truck isn't a hard thing to overcome. 
Also they do driver evaluation after they hire you. Which normally you would do that as part of your interview, therefore you don't waste anyone's time including your own.  They are in remote location, so for me I would have to drive 2.5 hours to be hire to find out if I have the job after already leaving another job for this one, because they told me I was hired, then fires me after a week after I was fully up front with them about my lack of experience.  Even though I passed driver evaluation and passed training they fire me for lack of experience.

Day one was the best day, the second  best day was the last day.

The middle was learning that your job was every job in company that was handed to you because someone else didn’t have time.

The field employees are awesome and supervisors.

Camp and staff are great.

Mechanical staff great .

Anyone with manager in there title stay away unless you have no choice but to talk to them.

Wages are lowest in Alberta 

Equipment is beat you don’t have a set unit thats yours so expect 1-10 a shift.


If you are hard up and need a filler job till you find a better one you found the right place.

Newly bought by vertex let’s hope that they clean upper management out and the place would flourish.





I worked for these guys for just over a month and it was a joke. If you drive your own vehicle and park it at the shop/camp it’s probably going to be stolen or broken into from the natives in Lac La Biche. DOT has a hard on for them, guys would get pulled in for level 1 inspections all the time. 5 bucks a hour under everyone else, pretty much all east coasters because they feel Albertans act to privileged. They get rid of ya before your 3 months is up so you don’t get Benefits and they don’t need cause. Company seems like it’s having money problems

Lots of highway driving,  not necessarily a bad thing. Mostly automatic trucks.... Nice schedule 20/10 lots of time to have a life and actually do stuff. The food at the mad camp is far from healthy if your into fried stuff every night no problem. Pay isn’t great and don’t expect a rise. Too much safety and stupid unnecessary procedures. For example wearing rain all the time even when it’s 30 degrees transfering fluid. And very biased, definitely have their favourites. All and all I would probably work there again just for theschedule

These guys lie through their teeth say how they have all this work coming up just to try and keep you there. They feel like working for them is a privilege and you owe them everything. They can’t get a contract to save their life as to much dead weight in office I mean overhead to pay out there family huge contracts but don’t pay their operators anything make you sit in camp. They don’t trust there employees so much that place is locked down like fort KNOX

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