After being awarded over $1 million in Recovery Act/Clean Diesel funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cascade Sierra Solutions will provide instant rebates for installing SmartWay-verified technology updates on diesel trucks registered in New England.
The program, currently open to trucks registered in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, will offer rebates on a first-come basis for qualified projects until the funds are distributed.

"Truckers are hard working people that can be difficult to reach when they are on the road," said Dave Orton, Cascade Sierra Solutions marketing communications manager. "We need help spreading the word that these rebates are available to help these New England-based businesses get fuel saving upgrades for their tractors and trailers."

To be eligible, the upgraded tractors and/or trailers must be owned or on a lease-to-own basis, and the equipment must have five years of projected useful life remaining. Owner-operators and fleets are eligible, but projects are limited to 10 percent of the total rebate program funding.

CSS will award $1,000 rebates for eligible auxiliary power units, exhaust retrofits (diesel particulate filters) and transport refrigeration unit replacements. In addition, there are $500 rebates available for trailer skirts, trailer tail fairings, low rolling resistance tires and transport refrigeration unit repowers. There are $250 rebates available for bunk heaters/heat recovery units and electric idle reduction, while $100 rebates are offered for trailer gap fairings.

For more information about the program, visit www.cascadesierrasolutions.org.