Testimony at the third and final day of a court hearing in Montana on megaloads included questioning of Montana Department of Transportation chief engineer Dwane Kailey about an internal email in which he scolded staffers for using the term "high-wide corridor," writing, "Let's try not…
Yet another firm has contacted Idaho about sending a giant, oversized megaload across U.S. Highway 12 from Lewiston to Montana, the Lewiston Tribune reports today. Nickel Bros., a hauler, has applied to send one megaload across the route in early June, an evaporator for a…
The New York Times reports today that new research in Arizona and elsewhere shows private prisons don't save states money - they actually cost more. That's in part because the private lockups "cherry pick" the healthiest, least expensive inmates to house, leaving states to deal…
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