For the most part, no. Currently, hundreds of trucks per day carry oil from the Uinta Basin to the refineries in Salt Lake City. If the railway is constructed, trucking may still prove to be the cheapest option for those refineries due to the relatively short distance of the trip. Furthermore, in a September 9, 2019 interview on KVEL 104.5FM radio Mark Hemphill of Rio Grande Pacific, the company that would construct and operate the railway, indicated that there is no way to offload oil from trains at the Salt Lake refineries. Constructing a facility to do so would be prohibitively expensive.

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On the September 24th episode of the same show, a public affairs officer for the SCIC clearly stated that trucking of oil to the Salt Lake refineries would remain if the rail is constructed. She also indicated that short haul trucking in the Uinta Basin would actually increase because of the need to get increased volumes of oil to the train. Only trucks that currently travel to Price, roughly along the proposed route of the railway, would be replaced by rail transport.