California loan program to help truckers reduce emissions

California’s Treasury Office has joined with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for a $48 million loan guarantee program...

Wide single tires outperform
duals in fuel efficiency tests

A 383-page report provided by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory confirms that wide single tires are more fuel-efficient than duals on heavy trucks....

EPA Clean Diesel Campaign
could benefit truck dealers

A new initiative from the Environmental Protection Agency designed to reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality could help drum up business for the nation’s struggling medium- and heavy-duty truck dealers....

Obama previews plug-in
hybrid electric utility truck

President Barack Obama previewed an innovative plug-in hybrid electric utility truck with a power system developed by Eaton Corporation and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently....

Kenworth truck operators eligible
for federal stimulus package aid

Truck operators who purchase new Kenworth medium-duty hybrid trucks and tractors or T800 liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles, then permanently remove an equal number of aged existing diesel-fueled trucks from the marketplace in exchange, are eligible to apply for grant money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act....

Cummins unveils
its SCR engines

Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI) used the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, to unveil its on-highway engine lineup ready to meet the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations for the North American market....

Save Mart retrofitting TRUs
with Rypos filtration systems

Save Mart Supermarkets and its wholly owned subsidiary, SMART Refrigerated Transport, plan to purchase Rypos LETRU (Low-Emission Transport Refrigeration Unit) exhaust filtration systems to bring its transportation refrigeration units (TRU) into compliance with the diesel TRU engine emissions levels required by the California Air Resources Board (CARB)....

California summit to address
key transportation issues

The 2009 Southern California Transportation and Logistics Summit will address key issues facing the transportation and logistics industry in Southern California and the nation....

CARB revises TRU advisory
on six-month grace period

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has revised its TRU Advisory 08-15, which discusses the six-month administrative enforcement grace period for the first phase of the Transport Refrigeration Unit (TRU) Airborne Toxic Control Measure’s (ATCM) in-use performance standards....

Rypos diesel particulate filter verified by CARB

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has verified the Rypos DPF/LETRU (Level 2 Plus) diesel particulate filter can be used to comply with the Low-Emission Transport Refrigeration Unit (LETRU) in-use performance standards on most trailer transport refrigeration units using 2002 and older model year engines...

Eaton assists fleet owners
with diesel hybrid truck grants

Eaton Corporation has established a program to assist diesel truck fleet owners in applying for the $156 million in diesel hybrid truck grants available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)....

Peterbilt's hybrid vehicles
are eligible for EPA grants

Peterbilt’s complete line of hybrid products are eligible for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants of up to 25% of the total quoted vehicle cost....

Navistar hybrid truck helps
Kraft Foods deliver pizza

Kraft Foods Inc. has added another green ingredient to its DiGiorno Pizza line—a diesel-electric hybrid delivery truck equipped with a RouteMax refrigerated truck body for frozen and refrigerated capabilities....

CARB training video
aids TRU compliance

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) training course #507, “Transport Refrigeration Units,” is now available as a video....

Prohibiting engine power
for TRUs is workshop topic

The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) is holding a public workshop to discuss regulatory concepts for prohibiting the use of internal combustion engines to power transport refrigeration units (TRUs) on trucks, trailers, shipping containers, and railcars for extended cold storage....

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