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2004.
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"This plan, the result of a partnership among the Departments of Transportation of Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, outlines a series of priorities and steps to improve the corridor and serves as a tool for securing funding for corridor development. Funding for this planning project was provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation with the Colorado Department of Transportation serving as project manager."
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
In December 2004, a Corridor Development and Management Plan (CDMP) for the Ports to Plains Corridor was completed. While the recommendations for the plan were far reaching and extensive, the need for improved truck parking and rest area deficiencies was given a limited analysis, resulting in generalized recommendations for improvements along the Corridor. The Ports to Plains Steering Committee initiated this study to provide an additional Public/Private...
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Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilizationOn ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. We buy, so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not work.Freight...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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McPhee begins his adventure riding with Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of an 18-wheeler hauling nearly 30 tons of highly toxic chemicals from North Carolina to Washington. He continues his journey on a towboat pushing over 1,000 feet of barge up the narrow channel of the Illinois River. He rounds out his account crawling through Nebraska, Kansas, and the Powder River Basin of Wyoming in massive coal trains. Along the way, he tells the stories of...
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c2010
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Jane Albright, a newly widowed mother of one child who is pregnant with another, is forced to deal with Franklin Lloyd, a greedy moneylender, by hauling freight all the way to Deadwood, South Dakota, to keep her freighting business alive, and as she works to salvage her family's future, she slowly earns Lloyd's admiration.