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Feb 13, 2016

DANGEROUS RIGS * USA: The OKL oildfield trucks

* Oklahoma - Inspecting Oilfield Trucks

-- An investigation by News On 6 and The Frontier found that 36 people have died in crashes with oilfield trucks in Oklahoma since 2007... A third of the companies involved in those deadly crashes have the lowest safety rating a trucking company can have and still be allowed to operate... We looked under hoods and went under trucks, inspecting oilfield trucks operating in Oklahoma. One truck was thousands of pounds overweight and another barely had brakes... Another truck for a mobile weigh-in and found the truck weighed 7,500 pounds over the legal limit of 36,000 pounds. That trucking company got two tickets... The trooper found that other trucks, of the six brakes on the truck, four were out. That trucking company got an "out of service" violation, which will result in a federal fine... In 2012, OHP said it fell short of meeting its inspections goal, completing just 4,300 Level 1 inspections... We asked troopers how many trucks get inspected each day. "It varies. I can sit here and say ten a day when I might only get three a day. It varies on the type of trucks that you stop and the violations that you find," Trooper Heath Ragland said... 
(Photo: Thursday, News On 6 rode along with an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper as he inspected some oilfield trucks at random) -- Tulsa, OKL, USA - NEWS ON 6, by ALLISON HARRIS - Feb 12, 2016

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