Large Truck Safety in the Bakken Oil-Producing Region [Analysis Brief]

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Heavy duty trucks
  • Truck traffic
  • Truck crashes
  • Rural highways
  • Trucking safety
  • Fatalities
  • Injuries
  • Inspection
  • Statistics
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1502883
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  North Dakota;Montana
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  The Bakken shale oil-producing region encompasses parts of North Dakota and Montana in the United States and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada, with North Dakota accounting for 93 percent of the U.S. production (see Figure 1). The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that as of February 2015, the Bakken region was producing more than 1.3 million barrels of oil per day. ; The expansion of Bakken oil production has increased large truck traffic—specifically large trucks carrying oil, water, sand, and other materials to support drilling operations and to transport the crude oil from the wells to the rail heads and ; pipelines. The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute estimates 2,300 total truck trips per well over the course of a well’s production life (see Table 2). North Dakota is routinely experiencing 75 truck trips per day on county roads in the oil patch and on some days more than 1,000 truck trips.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/210/dot_210_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 346.93 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
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