--Karrie Grundy, director of recruiting for Sisu Energy, speaking to NPR's "Planet Money"
I think I can safely say that Grundy wasn't talking about my own podcast interview with frac sand hauler Sisu Energy's President Jim Grundy when she told National Public Radio's "Planet Money" that news stories highlighting astoundingly high pay for "drivers" at Sisu --
a potential $730K annually! -- ignored the difference between revenue and net income for owner-operators.
Hear
Overdrive's podcast interview with Sisu Energy owner Jim Grundy about growth the company's experienced with a percentage-pay model for dry-bulk frac sand hauling via this link. Or catch it in the player at the bottom of this post.Most every Sisu driver is in fact a contracting owner-operator or small fleet; you'll find some drivers employed by those small fleets, but not raking in $14K/weekly in W2 wages. Over the weeks since our podcast aired with Sisu, Grundy's story and his efforts to attract owner-operators to his growing business amid renewed demand in the Texas oil fields has been, indeed, as "Planet Money" put it, "the perfect anecdote to whiz around the internet."