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"GREEN" TRUCKING NEWS * USA - Con-way Freight Turns Back Speed Governors on Trucking Fleet
Maximum Speed Lowered From 65 to 62 mph to Drive Improved Fuel Conservation, Reduction in Carbon Emissions From North American LTL Trucking OperationsAnn Arbor,Mich.,USA -CNNMoney.com - March 10, 2008: -- Con-way Freight , one of the nation's leading less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation companies, announced today that it has turned back the speed governors on its 8,400-tractor fleet in a move to improve fuel conservation and reduce carbon emissions... The company has adjusted the governors on its truck engines to run at a maximum of 62 miles per hour, down three miles per hour from previous settings... The move is expected to reduce consumption of diesel fuel from its over-the-road tractor fleet by nearly 3.2 million gallons annually while eliminating approximately 72 million pounds of carbon emissions from the environment. The carbon gas reduction is equivalent to removing nearly 7,300 automobiles from America's highways... Con-way Freight has also invested in technologies and implemented other operational practices designed to reduce fuel consumption, which also lowers carbon emissions. Among them:
-- Equipping trucks with special aerodynamic fairings to reduce wind resistance and improve fuel efficiency
-- Specifying engine and drive-train combinations that maximize fuel mileage and peak power requirements
-- Using special engine and transmission lubricants to improve operating efficiency and fuel mileage
-- Setting engines with auto shut-off controls to minimize idle time while parked
-- Recycling used trailers and refurbishing them for return to the fleet through its sister company, Road Systems, Inc., vs. buying new trailers, thereby minimizing consumption of new resource materials
-- Converted its fuel sources to 100 percent ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel which, when burned, emits fewer particulates and combusted by-products.
-- Equipping trucks with special aerodynamic fairings to reduce wind resistance and improve fuel efficiency
-- Specifying engine and drive-train combinations that maximize fuel mileage and peak power requirements
-- Using special engine and transmission lubricants to improve operating efficiency and fuel mileage
-- Setting engines with auto shut-off controls to minimize idle time while parked
-- Recycling used trailers and refurbishing them for return to the fleet through its sister company, Road Systems, Inc., vs. buying new trailers, thereby minimizing consumption of new resource materials
-- Converted its fuel sources to 100 percent ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel which, when burned, emits fewer particulates and combusted by-products.
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