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Biodiesel * USA - Fleet testing reports success
Stay tuned for the more results as they come in from Decker’s Two-Million Mile RunLouisville,Ky,USA -Today's Trucking -22 Mar 2007: -- Dale Decker, a third-generation operator whose family business runs about 700 trucks and more than 1,400 trailers out of the Fort Dodge, Iowa., really really wants to believe in biodiesel. And he’s putting his money where his fuel spout is... Decker’s submitting a good chunk of his fleet to the biodiesel test. In cooperation with the National Biodiesel Board, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Iowa Central Community College, as well as the Renewable Enegery Group (REG), a biodiesel manufacturer, Decker is going to run 10 of his trucks a million miles using B-20 biodiesel (20 percent biodiesel and 80-percent No. 2 diesel) and 10 other identical trucks on identical runs but with regular fuel. And they reach the end, he’s going to determine which fuel works best -- which had the best mileage, the least maintenance problems, and the greatest driver satisfaction...
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