by Chana Joffe-Walt

Governor Sanford
Chana Joffe-Walt

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Last week I spent a day at the Port of Tacoma watching a bunch of longshoremen unload a ship full of 700 Kias. These guys race the cars off the boat one by one. Then they drive them to an enormous parking lot about a half a mile away, where the cars sit and wait for their next stop. These days that wait is much longer than usual.

 

The port tells me that Kia sends cars ahead of its orders, so these cars aren't necessarily spoken for. I rode along in one as it was off-loaded — just once.That was enough. It felt sort of like being on a race track.