Texas frac sand boom puts truckers in high demand
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Published: Friday, 10 November 2017
As frac sand demand more than doubles, trucking capacity in Texas is being squeezed to the limits.
A huge boost in demand for frac sand for
use in oilfields in West Texas is putting pressure on local
trucking capacity, with drivers in short supply.
"If you released all the convicts in Texas prisons you
wouldn’t have enough drivers," Joel Schneyer,
director of minerals consultancy Headwaters, told
Industrial...