Rig Wranglers
The loud, dirty and dangerous job of moving oil rigs
The sound is deafening. It’s the collective snarl of a half-dozen heavy diesels prowling “the pad,” hoisting and dragging massive hunks of steel, loading them onto four-and five-axle flatbed trailers. The temperature here is hovering near 100 degrees, and the wind — an unrelenting force on this barren patch of rural Texas — is, at times, hurling huge clouds of…
