In my younger years and during World War II, my Father, Porky Cutter, Sr., was a tool pusher for an Oil Company. My parents traveled with the drilling equipment, employees and their families around the US drilling for Oil. When they arrived at a new location, it was Dad's responsibility to get the families located in homes and to get the drills on site drilling. When an employee or family member had a problem, it was his job to assist in solving that problem. Many times he bailed employees out of jail on Monday morning after they had got in fights and tore up a club on Saturday night. Dad was like a Father to everyone.
Back then, families were much closer, worked and played together and helped each other in times of need. When the company moved to a new location with a rig, related equipment and as many as 25 families with their cars and trailers in a caravan. In some areas of the country, drillers and their families were looked on as transients and weren't well accepted when they moved into a new area.