TECHNONEWS * USA - Technology Enables World's Cleanest Class 8 Diesel Trucks to Hit the Road

New Exhaust System from Johnson Matthey, Enables Older Trucks to Surpass Even New Rigs' Emissions in Sacramento

Sacramento,CAL,USA -PRNewswire -March 25, 2008: -- Conventional wisdom holds that newer is better -- or in the case of vehicles -- cleaner, but that adage is being challenged by new diesel exhaust technology that can make older big-rig trucks cleaner than even the most modern clean diesel trucks... Johnson Matthey's latest diesel emissions technology, the SCRT system, has demonstrated in a trial, using a fleet of 16 older trucks owned by a Northern California grocery store chain, that it is possible to create a new adage: older can be cleaner... Results were released today of a demonstration using a number of older Class 8 grocery trucks retrofitted with Johnson Matthey's new SCRT four-way control system. Working with partner Cummins Emissions Solutions, the Johnson Matthey emissions system was tested for more than 1,000 hours as the trucks traveled throughout Northern California hauling grocery products to Raley's family of grocery stores...