Heavy Duty Trucking Logo
MenuMENU
SearchSEARCH

Fuel Smarts

NewsAugust 31, 2012

Sapphire Energy's Commercial Demonstration Algae-to-Energy Facility Now Operational

Sapphire Energy announced that the first phase of its Green Crude Farm, which it says is the world's first commercial demonstration algae-to-energy facility, is now operational

Read More →
ArticlesAugust 31, 2012

Successful Field Tests of DME in Europe prompt Volvo to Consider the Alternative Fuel for U.S.

Engineers at Volvo Trucks are exploring the possibility of using dimethyl ether, or DME, as an alternative fuel in North America, following successful field tests in Europe.

Read More →
NewsAugust 31, 2012

Navistar Gets to Pay Penalties for Emissions Noncompliance, EPA Rules

The Environmental Protection Agency will allow Navistar International to pay penalties on engines that do not meet clean air standards. The rule, which has not yet been published, sets a maximum penalty of about $3,800 per engine, the agency said last night

Read More →
Ad Loading...
NewsAugust 29, 2012

Gulf Oil Adds LNG-Powered Trucks, Plans to Offer Fuel to Customers

Gulf Oil has deployed 34 trucks that run on liquefied natural gas and says it soon will be supplying and distributing LNG to customers in the transportation sector and other interested bulk users

Read More →
NewsAugust 29, 2012

Vocational Energy, Ohio Dairy Launch Public-Access CNG Station

Vocational Energy announced the grand opening of its first public access compressed natural gas fueling station, constructed for Smith Dairy Products Co. about 20 miles west of Canton, Ohio

Read More →
NewsAugust 28, 2012

California Reaches $100 million Milestone in Loan Assistance to Truckers

The California Air Resources Board and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, part of the State Treasurer's Office, hit the $100 million mark in financial assistance to small-business truckers so they can buy cleaner-burning vehicles

Read More →
Ad Loading...
NewsAugust 28, 2012

Electrification Coalition, FleetAnswers to Provide Electrification Resources

The Electrification Coalition and FleetAnswers have teamed up to provide online resources on plug-in electric vehicle deployment

Read More →
NewsAugust 28, 2012

New Highway Law a Big Work Order for FMCSA

The new highway law sets an ambitious agenda for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration over the next couple of years. Most of the requirements in MAP-21 came from the agency's strategic plan, said administrator Anne Ferro as she introduced a presentation Monday on the agency's plans to implement the law.

Read More →
NewsAugust 27, 2012

New Advisory Panel Broadens Access to CSA Planning

The trucking industry and other interest groups are getting more say in how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shapes its signature CSA safety enforcement program. At the first meeting of a new CSA advisory panel yesterday, the agency spelled out the help it needs, calling for ideas and suggestions on how to solve such long-standing issues as public access to data, improvements in the data correction system and whether or not carriers should get credit for safety technology

Read More →
Ad Loading...
NewsAugust 27, 2012

Diesel and Gasoline Prices Continue to Increase

Diesel prices continued to climb this week, according to the U.S. Department of Energy

Read More →