Bumper stickers touting “If you have it, a truck brought it” have never been more on point than during a worldwide lockdown. This is always true in the oilfield, where tons of pipe and machinery share lanes with millions of barrels of water, drilling mud, and other supplies every hour of every day. As drilling […]
Driven to Succeed
Basin-area trucking firms face a shortage of trained drivers. Like, 3,000 drivers. “We noticed, with this [recent] downturn, that a lot of the drivers that left—they haven’t come back,” said Endeavor Energy Services’ Trucking Division General Manager Patrick Martinez. By Paul Wiseman “We noticed, with this [recent] downturn, that a lot of the drivers […]
All in a Day’s Haul
by Hanaba Munn Welch By another name, highways are arteries. The truck traffic that flows over them is the lifeblood of the economy, carrying goods and services in every direction. When the big rigs are rolling across America, the economy is rolling too. Trains and planes and barges also carry the stuff of […]