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Midland Frac Sand Truck Accidents: Permian Basin Oilfield Hauling Dangers, FMCSA Violations & Your Legal Rights If you are reading this page, someone you love may have been killed or badly hurt on a Permian Basin road — Highway 158, FM 1788, one of those two-lane farm-to-market stretches between the frac sand mines and the well sites that has become a de facto superhighway for 80,000-pound trucks. You may have gotten the call at 3 a.m. You may be sitting in a hospital waiting room in Midland or Odessa, or staring at a death certificate that says the cause was a commercial vehicle collision on a road that was never built to carry this kind of traffic. You may have already heard from an insurance adjuster who sounded sympathetic and wanted to help. We need you to hear this clearly before you talk to anyone: the conditions that killed your loved one are not inherent risks of a dangerous job. They are the results of choices made by companies that profit from the biggest oil boom in American history — choices about how long drivers stay behind the wheel, how much training they get before being dispatched onto unlit rural…