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When the work picks up, the trucks get scarce first. Texas rigs stood at 278 in the October 2026 Baker Hughes count, up 17 percent from a year earlier, and frac crews completing wells rose for a fifth straight week to 203. More concurrent drilling, completion, and production work means more operators competing for the same vacuum trucks, water haulers, and dump and flatbed capacity. A vendor who was available on a soft week may not be on a busy one. That is the moment to look