At BelCon Logistics, we utilize a better alternative for frac sand transportation services that focuses on enhanced efficiency, safety, and productivity. With sandbox trucking, your business needs are met while your logistics worries are eliminated.
If you are looking to change the way your outfit employs frac sand transportation and want to work with a forward-thinking frac sand hauling company, give us a call. Our dedicated, customer-focused team members are happy to answer all your questions and discuss your business needs, delivery schedules, load requirements, and more.
How Sandbox Trucking Works and Why It Improves the Oilfield Industry
Sandbox trucking is a new and innovative technology that approaches proppant transportation and storage with an edge. Its use means our client companies enjoy increased efficiency in operations, lower costs, and higher health and safety measures because of the reduced exposure to silica dust it provides.
Sandbox trucking works by using special sandbox containers. The sandbox trucking process tends to look like this:
- Sand mine – The sand box containers are preloaded at the silica frac sand mine.
- Storage – Mobile trans-load storage lends assistance with logistics.
- Delivery – We are able to utilize a smaller amount of tractors and lightweight chassis. With these conveniences at hand, proppant can be delivered to the jobsite before it is needed, with the sandbox containers stored nearby until ready.
- Jobsite – At the well site, containers are loaded by forklift onto the sandbox cradle. From here, the proppant can be processed through the blender hopper.
The convenience and safety involved with sandbox trucking make it a more viable option, used by leading companies in the industry.
Benefits of Sandbox Transportation & Logistics
The list of sandbox trucking benefits is somewhat brief, but highly impactful. They are:
- Material Quality – Sandbox trucking means a more direct mode of logistics, so our clients receive higher quality sand. This happens because:
- Product shrinkage on the rail is eliminated
- Sand degradation is reduced thanks to the elimination of transloading steps
- Contamination is avoided
- Lower Operating Costs – Our clients enjoy spending less on operating costs thanks to:
- Reducing the need for capital investments like:
- Movers
- Conveying equipment
- Silos
- Pneumatic trucking components
- Improved efficiency in the process:
- Reducing the need for capital investments like:
- Eliminating delivery scheduling problems
- Lowering the amount of trucks involved due to quick delivery
- Ending the headache of poor quality materials because of contamination and rail shrinkage
- The ability to create sandbox storage stations near the site
- Avoiding demurrage
- Health and Safety – With the negative health and safety complications and the environmental impact known about frac sand’s silica dust, it is notable that sandbox trucking means mitigating many of these and other related issues by:
- Reducing the amount of personnel required on the site
- Lowering the amount of trucks on the road
- Ending the escape of silica dust particles into the environment because the material simply stays in the sandbox from Point A to Point B.
With all of the clear benefits to sandbox trucking, it is easy to see why more and more companies in the fracking industry are opting for this logistics process over the outdated pneumatic trailer alternative.
Get More Information About Sandbox Trucking and How It Can Benefit Your Business
For more information about our sandbox trucking services, connect with us at 432-827-SAND. As a dedicated frac sand hauling company that prioritizes our customers’ best interests, we want to hear from you. Our team is standing by, ready to answer any questions you may have, discuss pricing, and work out the best solution to your frac sand transportation requirements.