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Opinion - USA - Keep On Truckin'?
NEW YORK,NY,USA -Forbes, by Robert Malone -09.20.05 :-) A truck idling at depots and terminals to provide air conditioning or heating for the truck cab can use as much as 1,000 gallons of fuel yearly, the Environmental Protection Agency calculates. Multiply that by the 8 million trucks on U.S. roads and it's an astounding waste of fuel, especially at today's prices... The U.S. road systems need a lot of redesign, additions and added technology. And this does not come cheap... In addition to the use of intermodal, the EPA suggests cutting the maximum speed limit of trucks, buses and cars on the highways by five to ten miles per hour and keeping a constant speed (variable speed in driving means energy wasted)... also recommends keeping air in truck tires at the right level using automated regulating devices that not only sense a tire's pressure but also adjusts the level of inflation to the optimum level. This process can extend the life of tire as much as 8% and can save more than $100 per truck annually in fuel cost. If trucks switched to wide-based tires, rather than the more common dual tires, the savings per truck per year could be as high as 400 gallons of fuel... Further, improved aerodynamic design of trucks could have a positive affect on fuel consumption...
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