Also, what do you see as far as demand for particular trucks in the near future? Will there be a greater need for water, frac sand, gravel, or something else?

If you were heading up there next month, would you take a vac trailer, pneumatic trailer, belly dump, or something else (assuming that you could find what you wanted)?

I can handle the cold alright - worked in it before. I'm just worried about getting up there as the bubble breaks.

I have a friend who is trying to put 5 more water trucks on right now, but I know another guy who has 4 water trucks leased on with another company that are bareley getting any work. He was real busy in the srping and early summer, but now he can't keep them busy. There are lots of variables, but I'm just not sure what to make of it.

I can tell you from first-hand experience that oil booms and busts happen overnight.

I figure if you're going just to work, not buy property or put much of your own money in, you should be good even when it busts as long as you don't tie yourself down in the boom/bust area and can move on to greener pastures when it goes south.

The people who get hurt are the ones who buy property at inflated rates during the boom, then literally can't give it away when the jobs and all of the temporary workers are gone.

Thanks for the input.

I know there is a huge housing problem, and I know that booms go bust. I think I can deal with that part of it.

What I am concerned about is that there may be an oversupply of trucks building up so that even though there are a lot of loads, there are even more trucks, and the rates will bottom out and the hours/loads and rates will drop even though the the demand remains steady.

If I am looking at it correctly, in order to have an increase in demand for water and frac sand trucks, there needs to be an increase in the number of rigs drilling (not just and increase in wells). Otherwise, the demand will remain pretty constant and the additional trucks will create a surplus.

It seems that last year everyone could get all the hours/loads they wanted, but I'm not sure that is the case now. Can anyone who is hauling there now shed a little light on this?