I&#x27;m not sure 30-40 miles one way is terribly unusual even in relatively urbanized coastal areas :-) But I agree with your basic point. I&#x27;m not personally familiar with how shifts typically work with oil drilling on land, but when I was working in the offshore drilling industry it was week-on&#x2F;week-off in the Gulf and many of the workers came significant distances--often from rural towns in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama.