We didn’t come to North Dakota for the scenery. We’re here for the money,” a trucker told a reporter from Minneapolis. He once got a $3,000 ticket for driving a truck that was 20,000 pounds overweight. “You have to go heavy just to keep up with the wells,” he said.
“We try to run as hard as we can,” another trucker told the reporter. His dump truck piled high with dirt pulled off a scale one day in the Bakken oil field region of North Dakota weighing 19,000 pounds above its limit of 82,000 pounds.