We cut swap time from 16 to 8 minutes last week by scripting the wireline-frac handoff and assigning a single point of contact per pad, but night shift consistency is lagging. What’s working for your teams to keep the cadence when crews rotate and sand trucks stack up around 2 a.m?
We cut night wobble by pairing the outgoing “single point of contact per pad” with the incoming for a 10‑minute overlap at 1:50 a.m., then running a 3‑minute radio checklist before the wireline–frac handoff; , without that the 2 a.m. sand surge wrecks cadence. Keep the script on a one‑page card and pin it in a Zello channel so no one hunts for it in the dark. Could you trial a micro-overlap this week and see if swap stays near 8 min?
, the ‘2 a.m.’ sand parade drives me nuts; since you already have a ‘single point of contact per pad’, we run a hard 1:50–2:10 sand hold where that POC acts as a sand marshal, staging trucks at the county road and releasing two at a time only after wireline clears — got nights back to 8–9 min… If you don’t control the gate, a simple geofenced SMS to stagger ETAs by 3 minutes did 80% of the job. Do you have a safe pull‑off to queue 6–8 trucks?
Quick one that stuck: we run a visible T-5 countdown on the radio and a big LED timer at manifold — outgoing lead starts it and dispatch meters truck release off that, like a mini tower; “no clock, no swap.” Got a spare UHF channel to mirror the timer tone, @sierra_holt87?