Carrier Transicold offers
a natural innovation

Helping the shipping industry find increasingly sustainable systems for refrigerated transport, Carrier Transicold presented a natural refrigerant technology for container refrigeration at Intermodal Europe 2010....

US Foodservice deploys
Orion LED technology
at five of its facilities

US Foodservice will deploy Orion Energy Systems’ LED technology and intelligent occupancy sensors in freezers at five of its facilities in Little Rock AR, Oklahoma City OK, Boca Raton FL, Norwich CT, and Zebulon NC....

CARB adopts changes
to reefer unit measure

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted amendments to the Transport Refrigeration Unit (TRU) Airborne Toxic Control Measure (ATCM)....

Ryder System to offer
DEF at all full-service
sites in North America

Ryder System Inc (NYSE: R) will soon be offering Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) at every one of its full-service locations in North America....

Peterbilt earns Employer of Year honors

Peterbilt Motors Company has earned the 2010 Employer of the Year Silver Award by the North Texas Clean Air Coalition (NTCAC) for its innovative environmental initiatives in improving air quality in the greater North Texas area. ...

Navistar ships about 17,000 vehicles

At a facility tour for media at the company’s Huntsville Engine Plant in Huntsville AL, Navistar International Corporation announced its success in delivering approximately 17,000 vehicles to US and Canadian customers in the past quarter. ...

Volvo partners with WWF to cut emissions

The Volvo Group will join the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Climate Savers Program. As a WWF partner, the Volvo Group’s truck companies undertake to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from vehicles manufactured between 2009 and 2014 by 13 million tons....

Robert Transport orders
180 Peterbilt LNG trucks

Peterbilt Motors Company announces the purchase of 180 liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks—the new clean-fuel Model 386 and 367—by Robert Transport of Boucherville, Quebec, one of Canada’s largest for-hire trucking companies....

Going green with fleets
in challenging times

These are challenging times for companies that haul and distribute refrigerated goods. A long recession and slow recovery have put financial pressure on every link in the cold chain....

Crowley transforms reefer
container fleet by adding
355 new PrimeLINE units

When Crowley Maritime Corporation’s liner services group takes delivery of 355 new 40-foot high-cube refrigerated containers later in 2010, it will mark the conversion of nearly a quarter of its refrigerated fleet to Carrier Transicold PrimeLINE container refrigeration units....

Fuel economy regulation
for medium-, heavy-duty
trucks proposed by feds

US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson announced the first federal fuel economy standard for medium- and heavy-duty trucks October 25....

CARB tries to amend Truck and Bus Rule, SmartWay mandate

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released draft regulatory language for proposed amendments to the In-Use On-Road Diesel Vehicle Regulation (Truck and Bus Rule) and the Heavy-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Regulation (California SmartWay mandate)....

Volvo Trucks field-tests liquefied gas

Volvo Trucks will initiate public field testing with methane diesel trucks that can run on liquefied methane gas. At the same time, Sweden’s first filling station for liquefied methane gas will open at Stigs Center in Göteborg. ...

Scania collaborates
in research to develop
biofuel-based engine

Scania has been granted SEK 30 million—about EUR 3.3 million—by Sweden’s Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation Initiative (FFI) to develop a biofuel engine intended for heavy commercial vehicles. This research will show how the best characteristics of the diesel and the Otto principle can be combined in an engine that can operate on both alcohol- and gaseous methane-based fuels...

Food Lion chain receives
Montreal Protocol Award

The US Environmental Protection Agency has presented to Food Lion its 2010 Montreal Protocol Award, a global achievement given for protecting the Earth’s ozone layer....

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