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"GREEN" PROSPECTS * USA - Truckers introduce plan to slow fuel consumption, emissions
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the Trucking Industry Set Out On Road To A Sustainable Future by Cutting CO2 Emissions and Fuel Consumption
Washington,DC,USA -PRWEB -May 8, 2008: -- The American Trucking Associations (ATA) today launched a far-reaching program of initiatives to set the industry on the road toward a more sustainable future under the banner Trucks Deliver a Cleaner Tomorrow. This first-ever industry-wide environmental sustainability program identifies a series of initiatives that will reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, thereby helping combat the challenge of global climate change... ATA President and CEO Bill Graves praised the program as a landmark effort that will join all trucking industry stakeholders to work together on these issues... The report includes six key recommendations to reduce fuel consumption and addresses the impact of these activities on the environment. They are the equivalent of eliminating the CO2 generated by 9.6 million Americans for one year - roughly equal to the population of the Chicago metropolitan area. The recommendations are displayed on a new Web site, www.trucksdeliver.org, together with full details of the trucking industry's new commitments on sustainability:* Set governors on new trucks to limit speeds to no more than 68 mph and reduce the national speed limit to 65 mph for all vehicles.
* Reduce engine idling.
* Increase fuel efficiency by encouraging participation in the U.S. EPA SmartWay(SM) * Transport Partnership Program.
* Reduce congestion by improving highways, if necessary by raising the fuels tax.
* Use more productive truck combinations.
* Support national fuel economy standards for trucks.
ATA President Graves was joined at the launch of the new sustainability program by Margo Oge, Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the CEOs and key executives of many of the nation's leading freight and trucking companies... These companies strongly support this industry-wide effort and the recommendations at the heart of the new sustainability program... The ATA member companies represented on the Sustainability Task Forceare:
· Air Products & Chem. Inc. Allentown, Pa.Arkansas
· Best Corp. Fort Smith, Ark.
· Caterpillar Inc. Peoria, Ill.
· Combined Transport Inc. Central Point, Ore.
· Con-way Inc. Ann Arbor, Mich.
· Cummins Inc. Columbus, Ind.
· Detroit Diesel Detroit, Mich.
· Engine Manufacturers Association Chicago, Ill.
· FedEx Freight Memphis, Tenn.
· Freightliner LLC Portland, Ore.
· Grammer Industries Inc. Grammer, Ind.
· International Truck & Engine Corp. Fort Wayne, Ind.
· Maverick Transportation LLC Little Rock, Ark.
· Minnesota Trucking Association Roseville, Minn.
· O & S Trucking Inc. Springfield, Mo.
· Petroleum Transport Inc. Belle, W.Va.
· Schneider National Inc. Green Bay, Wis.
· Swift Transportation Co. Inc. Phoenix, Ariz.
· Titan Transfer Inc. Shelbyville, Tenn.
· UPS Freight Richmond, Va.
· US Xpress Enterprises, Inc. Chattanooga, Tenn.
· Volvo Trucks N.A. Greensboro, N.C.
· Wabash National Corp. Lafayette, Ind.
· Wal-Mart Transportation LLC Bentonville, Ark.
· Waste Management Inc. Washington, D.C.
· Watkins and Shepard Trucking Helena, Mont.
· YRC Worldwide Inc. Overland Park, Kan.
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