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TRUCKING COSTS' SOLUTIONS * Canada - B.C. trucking industry slow on retrofits uptake
Vancouver,BC,CAN -The Vancouver Sun, by Don Cayo -September 10, 2008: -- ... B.C. truckers who drive anything but the very latest energy-efficient rigs spend about a buck per kilometre for fuel... This adds up fast. A long-haul truck might travel 200,000 kilometres in a year. And even a local delivery truck, which gets much worse mileage as it stops, starts and idles through its daily rounds, goes 25,000-50,000... Ninety per cent of the province's trucking companies have five trucks or fewer, and 60 per cent have just one. Of necessity, they focus on getting basics like functional tires on their trucks, with nothing left for extras such as light-weight, ultra-efficient tires and rims to shave a little off their fuel consumption... Cascade Sierra Solutions is a non-profit that is having success finding and promoting ways to save fuel and reduce emissions from trucks. It operates in Washington, Oregon and California through a network of outreach centres at major truckstops... All in all, a full retrofit package for an older truck costs $10,000-$15,000. And the savings, depending on how the truck is used, add up to thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars a year... This math makes a retrofit sound like a no-brainer, but the CEO of CSS, Sharon Banks says, her agency still has three important roles:
* The first is education.
* The second, especially for independent owners, is low-cost financing.
* Finally, Cascade Sierra helps companies plan and implement fuel-saving programs and get their drivers on board.
Given Premier Gordon Campbell's gung-ho resolve to reduce B.C.'s greenhouse gas emissions, I can't imagine why this is taking so long to get started...
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