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"GREEN" NEWS * Canada - Trucking company gets eco-friendly tractor-trailers
New trucks are designed to burn diesel more efficiently and cut emissions
Nanaimo BC, Canada -The Nanaimo Daily News, by Darrell Bellaart -June 28, 2008: -- Vancouver Island dairy producers Paradise Island Foods has traded in its four-vehicle tractor trailer fleet for environmentally friendly vehicles... The company took advantage of the new provincial incentive program that pays owners up to $10,000 per vehicle and $50,000 per fleet to switch over to so-called enviro-trucks... The new trucks are designed to burn diesel more efficiently, drastically cutting particulate emissions, and Paradise Island also had its tractor trailers fitted with hybrid diesel-electric refrigeration systems that can be plugged in wherever electric power is available, reducing noise and pollution and further cutting emissions... The dairy producer is not the only Island company jumping on the green bandwagon... Victoria-based R&B Trucking is awaiting delivery on North America's first fully hybrid diesel-electric refrigerator truck by late summer... The company, which operates 27 vehicles on the Island, 11 out of Lantzville, is waiting for the first truck ever built that uses electric batteries...
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