Hot Shot Trucking 101: Speed, Shipments, Trucks and Delivery Area
June 14, 2017 8:30 pm Leave your thoughtsDecades ago in the oil fields of Texas, a breakdown or equipment failure could cause you to lose money every minute your oil rig was not in operation. Getting replacement parts using traditional shipping methods could take weeks, which was unacceptable to oil field owners, so a new method of trucking was devised. Oil field owners in Texas would call an independent contractor or owner of a small truck and hire them to deliver a single piece of equipment as quickly as possible. Thus was the method of hot shot trucking in Houston, TX born. Today, the hot shot trucking method is still used by oil companies and other power and energy companies, but the use of hot shot trucking... View Article