Canadian Producers Turn to Oil Trucks as Supply Glut Grows
- Crude-by-truck exports surge to more than 200,000 barrels
- Truckers ship crude 500 miles amid pipeline bottlenecks
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The highways of Saskatchewan show just how desperate Canadian oil producers are to get their crude to market.
Tanker trucks laden with oil are journeying almost 500 miles (800 kilometers) to pipeline and rail terminals. It’s a phenomenon that Ken Boettcher, president of Three Star Trucking Ltd. in Alida, Saskatchewan, started to see three or four months ago when oil shippers around Kindersley, near the Alberta border, began requesting trucks to move their crude, in some cases, as far south as North Dakota.