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Tank truck fleets serving the oilfield couldn’t busier right now. With drilling activity booming in oil and gas shale formations across the United States, the truck fleets that serve those operations are becoming stretched a bit thin. The driver supply remains tight, and long lead times for new truck-mounted and trailer tanks make it difficult to expand operations.

$Tractor-trailer rigs hauling frac sand are photographed near Midland TX en route to a drilling rig. As many as 40 loads of frac sand are needed to frac each stage of a horizontally drilled well. A well may have 12 to 16 stages. The demand for frac sand ha$

$The fluid from the hydraulic fracturing process is nearly 99.5% water and sand. To create productive natural gas wells, companies force fluid thousands of feet below the surface at high pressure to crack shale rock and release trapped natural gas. This ex$