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docs(plans): plan regional and local carriers - #257

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@Orinks Orinks commented Sep 26, 2026

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Plan only for carrier slice 3: regional, local, and Alaska carriers. No carrier data changes. data/carriers.json waits for a realism cut of this list.

Plan: docs/carrier-slice3-plan.md

  • Sixteen new lower-48 regionals, hiring within 250 air mi, same country, running 150-600 mi. Prairie Link is unchanged.
  • An Alaska regional, Ptarmigan Line Freight, with Anchorage and Fairbanks terminals. It hires in all 8 AK map cities, which opens AK home bases. BC and YT stay blocked because regionals only hire in their own country.
  • Two locals: Lakefront Cartage (Chicago) and Basin Harbor Drayage (LA / Inland Empire).
  • Coverage: 619 of 625 lower-48 cities get at least one regional. The six left with nationals only are listed, with the fix that would close them.
  • A coverage test design, an implementation outline, and open questions.

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Plan for carrier slice 3: sixteen new lower-48 regionals, an Alaska
regional with Anchorage and Fairbanks terminals that opens AK home cities
while BC and YT stay blocked, and two metro locals. Lists each carrier's
key, tier, terminal city keys, hiring footprint, lane area, and the cities
only it covers; the six cities left with nationals only; the coverage
test; and open questions. No carrier data changes.

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Regenerate the plan without the duplicated sections 3-5 and regionals
6-16. Settle the count at 17 lower-48 regionals, keep the four wide
spans, and add a Green Bay terminal so all 625 lower-48 cities get a
regional. Replace the Milwaukee termination fallback with a home-city
rule, add Knik Arm Cartage as a second Alaska carrier, keep the Alaska
regional inside Alaska, and note ALCAN through-freight as future work.
Record a trademark screen of every name; sixteen names are replaced.
Add a ROADMAP row for TWIC on LA/Long Beach port drayage.

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Replace twelve plant, animal, and seaweed names with river, valley, and
range names under the realism re-cut's name rule, and screen all 20
names against FMCSA SAFER, the USPTO trademark search (now reached
through its public JSON endpoint), and the web. Record the Loonwater
span, the thin Knik Arm Cartage footprint, and the fallback rule as
resolved, add a no-AK-driver-on-a-lower-48-carrier test, and add a
ROADMAP debt row for the Kenai Peninsula and Seward.

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Superseded by #258, which carries these three plan commits plus the final names and the carriers.json data.

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