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Truck Test - USA - ORNL launches nationwide U.S. one
Oak Ridge,TN,USA -UPI/Monsters and Critics.com (Glasgow,UK) -Oct 24, 2006: -- A U.S. truck test involving special monitoring equipment on six instrumented tractors and nine instrumented trailers started Tuesday... The project was launched by the National Transportation Research Center -- a joint transportation research facility involving the U.S. Department of Energy`s, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the University of Tennessee... During the year, the specially equipped tractor-trailers owned by the Schrader Trucking Co. of Jefferson City, Tenn., will be hauling freight across the United States on regular truck runs... Data acquisition systems will be on board to measure each vehicle`s performance, including vehicle and engine speed, engine torque and fuel consumption. Performance data will also take into consideration such physical factors as wind speed, precipitation and other conditions... Data collected will support modeling efforts for trucks of the future, and will be made available to automotive engineers in the trucking industry...
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