Canada Post has recently started purchasing Navistar’s all electric eStar step van making them one of the first Canadian delivery companies to do so. Each eStar is slated to annually reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 tonnes. They have a range of 160 kilometers per full charge and take 6-8 hours to completely charge up. …
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Over the past 5 years we’ve seen many different types of fuel saving and particulate emission reducing apparatuses and technologies come to the table. However most we’re not correctly tested or only solved one issue or the other, but not both. Hydrogen-generating systems (HGS) might just be the answer all truckers and fleet owners are …
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Con-way Freight, one of the largest LTL carriers in the world based in Ann Arbor, Michigan has recently made a $100 million purchase in the form of 1,300 new Freightliner Cascadia trucks. They paid $5 million alone just for the safety technology that was integrated into the trucks. So why did they do this? Con-way …
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When I first wrote my other article on the new Michelin Blackberry application, I couldn’t seem to find the link to be able to download it. Perhaps it was because it was so new that it was not quite publicly released. However, I thought I would update you guys with where you can obtain the …
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Nowadays heavy-duty diesel engine trucks come outfitted with the most current EPA compliant equipment. That equipment is in the form of two different methods used in the aftertreatment of the exhaust emissions. Those methods are Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) and increased Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR). Either are used to reduce NOx which is basically excess, …
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