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Regulation Barriers * Canada - Block greening of trucking industry
Times may be tough, but that doesn't mean that truckers aren't seeing green of another shade
Toronto,ONT,Canada -Today's Trucking -27 July 2009: -- Ontario trucking companies, according to a recent survey of members by the Ontario Trucking Association, are ready to embrace aftermarket technology that improves fuel efficiency and reduce GHG emissions... The OTA survey revealed that close to three quarters of respondents have introduced in-cab heaters into their fleet to avoid having to run the engine to keep cabs warm in the winter... Plus, the current incentive programs do not include the full scope of proven fuel efficiency technologies, such as wide-base single tires (49% of OTA carriers say they are introducing them)... Also, new trailer skirts (9% of fleets said they had introduced them) and rear of trailer aerodynamic devices, commonly referred to as boat tails (only 2 percent) are other technologies that could be accelerated, but in the case of the latter, only smaller models are allowed, unlike the U.S.... (Photo: Envirotrucks are fuel efficient power units with single tires, boat tails, trailer skirts, and speed limiters)Labels: rules and regulations
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