Sentences with phrase «car tank car»

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A simple rule such as, «always fill the tank before you return the car,» is easy to communicate to a big group of people at once.

As electric cars become more and more common, and as their batteries can hold more and more energy to allow for a range comparable to that of a gasoline car, the main obstacle remains: how to charge the batteries as fast as you can fill in your gas tank.

Not all electric cars can be charged at a rate of 80 miles per charging hour, but even if they could, achieving 400 miles (the equivalent of an average gasoline car gas tank capacity) would take 5 hours of charging.

Your car arrives with a full tank of gas and a concierge who shows you around the car before sending you on your way.

'' We applaud the Minister of Transport's direction to eliminate the use of older tank cars,» said CEO E. Hunter Harrison in a statement late Wednesday.

Concerns about the safety of DOT - 111 tank cars date back to the mid-1990s, when the Transportation Safety Board recommended Transport Canada «take immediate action to further reduce the potential for the accidental release of the most toxic and volatile dangerous goods transported in Class 111A tank cars.»

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said about 5,000 of the most dangerous tank cars will be pulled off the tracks within a month, part of a series of measures in response to recommendations by the Transportation Safety Board in the wake of last summer's deadly derailment and fire in Lac Megantic, Que.

Since 2011, the rail industry has voluntarily adopted tougher safety standards for all new cars, but with literally only a handful of tank car - makers in North America and a huge boom in oil - by - rail shipments, demand far outstrips supply.

«We will review the full details of Transport Canada's regulations as soon as they are released and will work closely with both the railroad industry and the government to improve tank car safety.»

The U.S. - based Railway Supply Institute, whose members build more than 95 per cent of all North American tank cars and lease more than 70 per cent, said about 55,000 new tank cars will have been put in service between 2011 — when the new voluntary safety standards were adopted — and 2015.

Canadian Pacific (TSX: CP) said it welcomes the announcement about older DOT - 111 tank cars, but called the government's plan incomplete.

The Railway Association of Canada did not agree to an interview Wednesday but responded with a cautiously worded statement saying «a three - year phase - out for legacy tank cars marks an important step toward a fleet of cars that will enhance safety.»

You get the joy of ordering a luxury car (or a 525 - horsepower supercar) from your phone or tablet, and it shows up at your doorstep with a full tank of gas and a smiling Audi representative to personally hand you the keys.

Dressed in a bright blue jacket, your attendant meets you at your destination, hops into your car, and asks when you'll need it back and if you want them to run your car through a car wash or to fill your tank up with gas.

The only excitement would come from the explosions that periodically rock Helen of Troy's headquarters when the junkyard across the street forgets to empty cars» gas tanks before it compacts them.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

There are more than 65,000 DOT - 111A tank cars of this type on the rails in Canada.

The only outstanding Jews in that field are the Blocks and Max Epstein of Chicago, the Blocks being largely interested in Inland Steel (see FORTUNE, December, 1935, «Republic Steel»), the No. 7 producer, and Mr. Epstein being Chairman of the Board of General American Transportation Corp., which manufactures tank cars.

«Raising venture capital is like you're on a journey in a car, and you've got to stop at the gas station to fill the tank,» Parker says, calling upon a trite — his words — venture capital analogy.

It's more like buying gas — you can't use a car without gas in the tank.

Planned investments in loading terminals in Alberta and anticipated deliveries of specially designed tank cars could see an incremental 425,000 barrels per day of heavy oil railed to market by the end of 2014, it said in a report.

On the other side of the road however was a much more interesting site: Pripyat's old militia station, which was full of old vehicles: Cars, buses, trucks, dredgers, even a small tank.

It will initially produce methanol and later ethanol — enough each year to fill the tanks of 400,000 cars using a five per cent ethanol blend.

so maybe if car makers use smaller gas tanks they can keep gas stations alive a little longer:)

Moving viscous Canadian oil in tank cars used to be «more of a temporary fix» to transportation bottlenecks that earlier this year pushed prices for Western Canada Select to US$ 40 below the West Texas intermediate benchmark, he said.

This order, as amended, designated the number, dimensions, location, and manner of application for safety appliances on box cars, hopper cars, gondola cars, tank cars, flat cars, cabooses, and locomotives.

Anyone who's filled up the tank of a rental car while on a motoring holiday in Europe knows just how low Canada's fuel taxes really are by international standards.

So you would end up shipping products by rail tank car, which is more likely to result in spills due to derailments, etc..

I am a big believer in filling my gas tank before driving my «car» (aka body).

New cars and trucks will be more efficient and there will be more fuel choices — electricity, biofuels and gasoline will compete for your dollar when you need to fill your tank (or charge your batteries).

I'd just tanked up my vehicle — I don't yet have an electric car — with 30 - odd litres of regular unleaded, near my home here in Vancouver, B.C..

Television images suggested that the surviving tank cars on the Lac - Mégantic train were of the older design.

A 2009 report by the National Transportation Safety Board about a Canadian National derailment in Illinois called the design of those tank cars «inadequate» and found that it «made the cars subject to damage and catastrophic loss of hazardous materials.»

OTTAWA — The police said on Sunday that at least five people had died and 40 were missing after runaway railroad tank cars filled with oil derailed and exploded in a small Quebec town.

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada who has examined the increased use of oil trains, criticized railways in Canada and the United States for continuing to use older oil tank cars that he said were found to be unsafe more than 20 years ago.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada also recently released a new set of recommendations, related to its Lac - Megantic investigation, to improve oversight of dangerous routes and replace aging railway tank cars.

Department of Transportation rules imposed last year require companies to use stronger tank cars that are better able to withstand derailments.

But tens of thousands of outdated tank cars that are prone to split open during accidents remain in use.

The intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a more volatile form like gasoline.

Doubtless, you've noticed it if you've filled the fuel tank in your car with gasoline in the past nine months.

While these loans aren't going to tank the world financial system, lack of access to credit could hurt automobile manufacturers as their consumer base runs out of money to pay for new cars.

Notably, train derailments and explosions involving tank cars have brought increased regulatory scrutiny.

In this environment, the railcar manufacturers should be kept busy retrofitting existing equipment and building new tank cars.

I got in my car, which had a full tank of gas, and having filled my tires earlier in the week at a gas station (where I bought some gum), I drove to the mall, bought some toys, clothes, music, and other gifts, had a cup of coffee, stopped at the food court for a bite to eat, then drove home, checked my answering machine, which had a message from the dentist about a checkup, which reminded me I should probably schedule a haircut in a week or two.

A drop of diesel is seen at the tip of a nozzle after a fuel station customer fills her car's tank in Sint Pieters Leeuw December 5, 2014.

The drivers are the captains of the cars, but speed and precision of their pit crews — leaping over walls, changing tires and filling gas tanks — is often the difference between winning and loosing.

Pat, It's more like trying to reduce drunk driving fatalities by making sure the drunk's car isn't really a TANK that crashes through car after car after car before finally plowing into a crowded market and running over some more people.

of sugar in the gas tank... and of course, every Sat the car is towed to the garage with the engine frozen.

Then when you think things can't get worse — you're grappling with insurance hassles caused by your daughter's car crash just as an article you're writing is behind schedule — you see that the water tank pressure gauge is leaking.

Earlier this week I had to leave my car at the shop to have my gas tank replaced.