Police Say Well-Drilling Truck 41 tons Over Weight Limit
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
30 January 2010
Staff and wire reports
State police say they discovered a natural gas well-drilling service
truck that was more than 41 tons over the weight limit for the road it
was on.
Cpl. Roger Stipcak said it is the latest of numerous examples of state
troopers finding overweight natural gas trucks inflicting damage on
area roads.
Police say they found the truck Tuesday. It was parked illegally and
without a valid permit for its oversize load on a Bradford County road
posted with a 10-ton weight limit.
It's owned by a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corp. of Oklahoma City.
The driver drew traffic citations worth more than $25,000.
Drilling crews are flocking to Pennsylvania as they rush to extract
natural gas from the potentially lucrative Marcellus shale formation.