* Quebec - Canada’s trucking is making progress toward what one tire manufacturer calls “sustainable mobility”
-- The reason, according to Michelin Canada, is three provinces now have load parity legislation in place following the recent move by Manitoba to adopt new regulations, allowing wide base single heavy truck tires to operate at the same weight limits as conventional dual tires... The bottom line, this results in many benefits for trucking, including increased hauling and payload capacity and decreased fuel consumption and green-house gas emissions, said the tire maker... Wide base single tires have been available in North America since 2000 and are allowed extensively in the U.S.A. ... Load parity was implemented in 2006 in Quebec and in 2008 in Ontario... Michelin currently manufacturers its wide base single truck tire, known as the X-One, in both Nova Scotia and South Carolina...
(Photo: Michelin doubles NS plant capacity with wide-base tire like the X-One) -- Laval, QC, Canada - Today's Trucking - Jun 25, 2015Labels: tires makers news worldwide
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