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SAVING FUEL COST
* USA - Trucking firm looks a way to cut - Rising gas prices probably have many local motorists scrambling to find fuel-saving possibilities. One local hauler has taken the job into its own hands
Oil City,PA,USA -The Oil City Derrick, by NICHOLAS A. HESS -29 May 2007: -- Klapec Trucking of Reno, which operates more than 70 diesel-powered trucks, has introduced several cost-saving programs, hoping the changes will help company revenues and perhaps pay for themselves in the long haul... Cindy Urban, the president of Klapec Trucking, said the firm is testing various additives in its vehicles. She thinks the changes could help reinvent the company and prepare it for the possibility of further increases in diesel prices... Each truck holds 200 gallons of diesel fuel and gets about six miles to the gallon. With diesel prices rounding out at above $3 a gallon and Klapec Trucking delivering to 48 states and to parts of Canada, fuel charges can be daunting... The company offers its drivers discounted fuel prices; bulk fuel tanks containing about 7,500 gallons of diesel each are on site. The company pays for the drivers' fuel... Another cost-saving options are: the use self-contained generators called Auxiliary Power Supply Units, in each truck to reduce costs during idle time. Urban said the rigs use one gallon of diesel fuel per one hour of idling time. With the new generators, trucks would only require two-tenths of a gallon of diesel fuel per hour... Klapec has not had any cutbacks and recently purchased seven new trucks and 11 new trailers, also increasing employment... (Photo: Klapec Trucking Company driver Jim Patterson refills his truck with diesel fuel at the company's on-sight station in Reno. The local business has taken several measures to decrease fuel usage due to rising costs)
* Israel - Ingenuity Builds Fuel-Saver for U.S. Truckers
Tel Aviv,Israel -Israel National News/Isra Good -30 May 2007: -- Professor Avraham Seifert and his colleagues at the Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University have developed a device which is likely to save the U.S. trucking industry some $400 million per year... The drag reduction device, an actuator, was exhibited at the “World’s Best Technologies Showcase” in Texas... Through the combined action of suction and pulsed blowing of airflow, the device reduces drag in a controlled manner when it is attached to the back of the truck or trailer... Israeli researchers say the device is projected to increase fuel economy in trucks and trailers by as much as ten percent...
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