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OPINION * USA - New technology keeps on trucking
What is needed, says Chris Patterson, are direct incentives to help buyers...
Toronto,Ontario,Canada -Daily Commercial News, by Korky Koroluk -April 13, 2007: -- Canadian and American governments have been told they must do more to help truck and heavy equipment operators convert to the new, environmentally friendly technologies that are being developed... What is needed, says Chris Patterson, are direct incentives to help buyers... Patterson has a vested interest: He’s president and CEO of Freightliner LLC, whose brand names include Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star and Select trucks, as well as Thomas school buses and Detroit Diesel engines. His commercial interest doesn’t stop him from being right, however... The environmentally superior diesel engines mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are on the market, but are much more expensive than the older, dirtier engines. So without some financial help, Patterson says, buyers are forced to put off new purchases, keeping old engines in service longer, and thus helping to defeat the purpose of the new EPA standards...
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