A frac sand mine run by Superior Silica Sands in Wisconsin, the nation's largest frac sand producer. Neighboring Minnesota is the fourth-largest producer of silica sand. The town of Winona has the ...

A frac sand company has agreed to pay Pepin County, Wis., $480,334 to settle a lawsuit over road damage caused by hauling — a fear shared by many jurisdictions as the silica sand mining industry ...

CHISAGO COUNTY, Minn. - As the St. Croix River moves by the small town of Taylors Falls, there are some here worried about what may soon be moving through. "It's going to be a mess," said Taylors ...

Long before sunrise, Molly Sizer starts her day in West Texas as a professional frac sand hauler. She gets dressed, drives her Peterbilt truck to one of the dozens of frac mines around the Permian ...

The oilfield segment of trucking is as diverse as the trucking industry itself. With flatbeds hauling equipment, liquid bulk tankers hauling water and crude, pneumatic tanks hauling frac sand and more ...

Aurora is partnering with Detmar Logistics to operate 30 autonomous trucks hauling frac sand in the Permian Basin starting next year. Detmar's autonomous fleet will run on public roads. The autonomous ...

A semi-tractor trailer hauling a load of frac sand from a local mine in the Town of Buffalo rolled over on County Road P Monday, according to the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office. The driver told ...

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The rumble of sand-hauling trucks is a familiar sound in the Permian Basin, but soon, that sound may come without a driver behind the wheel. In a groundbreaking shift for ...