Patent ID: 11939147
Assignee: ATLAS SAND COMPANY, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method of transporting proppant to a wellsite that includes one or more wells, the method comprising:
transporting a plurality of trailers to a proppant-loading site, each of the trailers comprising one or more containers;
at the proppant-loading site, loading proppant into the container(s) of each of first and second ones of the trailers;
forming a long combination vehicle that includes a truck and the first and second trailers at least by coupling:
the first trailer to the truck; and
the second trailer to the first trailer; and

driving the long combination vehicle from the proppant-loading site to the wellsite after proppant is loaded into the container(s) of each of the first and second trailers at the proppant-loading site, wherein when the long combination vehicle drives from the proppant-loading site to the wellsite less than 1% of a distance that the long combination vehicle drives is on a public road;
wherein:
the proppant-loading site is a proppant depot; and
for each of the first and second trailers, the container(s) of the trailer contain proppant when the trailer is transported to the proppant depot and before proppant is loaded into the container(s) at the proppant depot.