There are very few truckers who do 7 straight 11.7 hour days to total 82 hours a week. I don’t know any. Can’t say I ever met any. I’m sure they exist, but I’m thinking they’re not all that common. Maybe they meant team-driving.
No,they drive 15 hour days and make fake logbooks.
Yeah...but around the shale oil deposits this is the norm...
each well needs over a million gallons of water during the fracking process.....
and when the well is producing oil has to be trucked to the rail head.
It takes as much as one million gallons of water to frac a single Bakken oil well. Frac water is freshwater that is used to pressurize and fracture oil-bearing formations to increase permeability and enhance the flow and recovery of oil. Frac water is typically transported in 7,500 to 8,000-gallon tanker trucks from a freshwater well to the oil well location, so it takes at least 125 tanker loads per well. It’s easy to see that getting water to a well site can be a time-consuming effort, and if trucks are waiting in line for hours, like they were last Thursday in Watford City, it can be frustrating for the truck driver as well as the oil company.
Oil companies typically send trucks to the closest water source, and last Thursday it was easy to see that Watford City was the closest source for many drivers, as there were 25 waiting in line to fill their tanks.
Pic at http://www.watfordcitynd.com/?id=10&nid=1175