Research Reports |
Title: | Agricultural Trucking Growth in North Dakota |
Authors: | Gene Griffin |
Publication Date: | Aug 1981 |
Report #: | SP-14 |
TRID #: | 01789882 |
Keywords: | agricultural exemption, agricultural products, economic growth, trucking |
Type: | Research Report – Staff Papers |
There are at least two basic reasons for the tremendous growth in trucking of exempt commodities in the past six years: a protracted rail transportation capacity shortage, and grain handling capacity shortage which lasted from October of 1977 through January of 1980, and rail pricing policy which made trucking of exempt commodities profitable.