Hauling pipe to Williston North Dakota

Wow, go to bed, wake up and I'm hauling pipe from Texas and hauling hay back!!

 

Pipe is also manufactured all over the U.S. Also, just because pipe is going to ND does not mean it's used for drilling. The pipe I take is made of epoxy and used for gas and the extraction of helium from the oil wells. During the winter months I've been going between OH/PA to NC/SC non stop usually hauling steel. Hauling steel into PA in the winter is probably the most challenging with grades that are off the charts compared to out West. That gets old real quick doing Fancy Gap, the non stop hills and curves pretty much 70% of the way. There's something to be said doing 600 miles a day with the cruise on and listening to Muskrat Love blasting at 120db

 

Still been hauling pipe up there. Just finished another one and on my way out empty. Was watching a local program on TV and economists had something very interesting to say. Oil prices have been falling and are now around $85 per barrel. The competition has started. The supply is way up and the demand is down and will continue due to Texas, North Dakota and Canada. We are becoming more and more less dependent on oil from overseas so they are dropping the prices. This causes our oil fields to drop the price and so on.

So, with that being said what they are worrying about is when oil goes below $70 a barrel it will no longer be profitable to drill for oil in ND. The pay will drop and people will leave and everything will collapse. It just blows my mind going up there. It's like Chicago at rush hour on a two lane road. I was at Lake Placid for the Olympics and they built that place up with tons of hotels, restaurants and everything else. I was up there a few years ago and everything is abandoned, overgrown and falling down.

This program also said how ND oil is driving up the price of milk in Texas. Say what?!?!?!?! The pay is so good to take pipe up to ND flatbedders are dead heading out to get another load instead of taking hay to Texas. For those who don't know, you need hay from the cold climates to produce good milk. Texas is too hot and not enough water so it has to be trucked in.