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haul road
(redirected from Dalton Highway)

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haul road [′hȯl ‚rōd]
(mining engineering)
A road built to carry heavily loaded trucks at a good speed; the grade is limited and usually kept to less than 17% of climb.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Dalton Highway winds up through the chilly, windswept Brooks Range, crossing Atigun Pass, the highest motorable pass in Alaska, on a slick, 18-degree roadway that trucks negotiate at a crawl.
America's north star: a tour of Alaska, our last frontier state, ... by Scaliger, Charles / The New American
And although the Dalton Highway (formerly the "Haul Road") we traveled on was constructed mainly for building the pipeline, I also had to acknowledge a sort of gratitude to it for giving me a chance to visit a beautiful, remote part of the country that I probably would not be able to see otherwise.
Alana Herro: the call of the wild by Herro, Alana / World Watch
The weather and road conditions are probably the biggest concerns that drivers on the Dalton Highway face," added Fairbanks Terminal Manager Lane Keator of Carlile Transportation Systems.
Taking the Road less traveled: tourists, commercial drivers share ... by Orr, Vanessa / Alaska Business Monthly
 
 
 
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