Caterpillar To Open New Plant in US -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

It would be nice if one could quantify the Bakken boom with figures from  a) Caterpillar; and, b) truck manufacturing plants, especially, Western Star in Portland, OR.

The number of trucks and heavy equipment coming to Williston, ND, on a daily basis is quite startling.

There is no reference to the Bakken at this story, but considering the rest of the country isn't doing much, I can only assume some of these dozers will end up in North Dakota.