Booming Texas oil fields need workers to build highways
Highway 302, an 83-mile-long, often single-lane road that runs from Odessa, Texas, home to a variety of oilfield servicers, to Loving County, in the western part of the Permian oil field basin, is a stretch that saw traffic jump by 76 percent in 2017, and it's continued to rise this year.
Roads, not pipelines, geology or labor shortages, are the biggest long-term threat to sustainable growth in the Permian, the world's busiest shale oil field.