Sentences with phrase «truck fleet»

At the processor and distribution level, greater emphasis on truck fleet - fuel usage and consumption of electricity will reduce emissions, the researchers said.

Find out how safety and driver training programs can help control your commercial auto or truck fleet insurance premiums.

Find out how safety and driver training programs can help control your commercial auto or truck fleet insurance premiums.

The adoption of such fuel - saving clean technologies for commercial truck fleets offers clear potential to achieve significant reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, while generating considerable operational lifecycle cost savings for the road freight sector.

Cleaner sources of energy will need to be found not only for truck fleets, but also for the actual production of goods too.

The award recognizes the safety records of trucks fleets with at least five Class 8 tractor units, according to Volvo.

In an all - time first, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is using two fully automated driverless truck fleets at its massive iron ore mines.

The Work Truck Show is North America's largest work truck event and this year it is expected to draw more than 11,000 public and private truck fleet operators, dealers and equipment distributors to the Indiana Convention Center.

To deliver those products across a three - state region, Triple Crown maintains its own truck fleet in each state and runs between 17 and 20 routes every day.

PepsiCo operates the largest all - electric delivery vehicle fleet in America, and The Coca - Cola Company operates the largest heavy - duty hybrid electric commercial truck fleet in North America, as Brune and Paglia point out.

For the $ 3.5 million in loans and grants that the Bronx offered Fresh Direct, the company signed a written agreement that includes promises to hire Bronx residents for a certain percentage of jobs and to eventually convert to a green delivery truck fleet.

On May 19 President Barack Obama announced a new federal gas mileage standard: by 2016 the nation's entire car and light truck fleet should average 35.5 miles per gallon.

Especially when you realize how much of the US energy mix goes to transportation: Converting truck fleets to natural gas and electrifying cars may not be the environmental winner it's conventionally thought to be.

More than 11,000 public and private truck fleet operators, dealers and equipment distributors are expected to attend this year's show, according to GM.

The IIHS has just evaluated every model and every trim of the entire U.S. pickup truck fleet, and only one scored Good.

«Warehouse managers can tell you precisely how much they are paying for, for example, their forklift truck fleet, but often have no idea what it is costing them to wrap a pallet,» says Sumner.

An energy efficiency program focused on such things as EPA SmartWay trailers and fuel efficient truck fleets means this carrot company has lower carbon emissions and is working toward a smaller environmental footprint.

When the Chevrolet / GMC truck fleet was redesigned for 1955, Chevy's Cameo Carrier was the acknowledged jewel of the lineup.

Compared with truck tractors, the single - unit truck fleet varies by model in terms of weight, wheelbase, axles, cargo type and other factors that affect the calibration and performance of stability control systems.

Of course, it's not as simple as loading up an articulated truck fleet... With the short life & food risk presented by eggs, it's all about meeting standards and obtaining the necessary export permits.

The same could be done for local truck fleets.

That «cash for clunkers» subsidy is intended to increase vehicle sales, prop up the faltering American auto industry and make the nation's car and truck fleet marginally more efficient.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Anheuser - Busch plans to use the Tesla trucks for shipments to wholesalers lying within 150 to 200 miles of its 21 breweries and they'll become part of the approximately 750 - strong truck fleet it currently uses to ship its product.

Facilitate all diagnosis, troubleshooting, maintenance and repair work on heavy truck fleet and equipment

Formerly ITS Compliance, Fleetworthy Solutions Inc. provides outsourced compliance services to owners and operators of truck fleets that take them Beyond Compliant.

This led to some smuggling, of course, but even today Savoyards are big in transportation in France, owning truck fleets and such.

The company will also continue to push the state to allow it to accept food stamps for online orders and to work toward its goal of establishing within five years a delivery truck fleet that runs completely on «green» energy, such as electric or natural gas, the agreement says.

His fiscal stimulus bill put tens of billions of dollars into strategic investments in these technologies, and his administration has taken other important steps, including a rule that will make the new car and light truck fleet 40 percent more fuel efficient by 2016.

Amid GM's imposing SUV and pickup truck fleet is a vehicle massive not so much in size, but in importance.

Business associations representing brake suppliers (HDBMC), truck manufacturers (EMA), and truck fleet operators (ATA) all supported a stability control mandate.

All that and more, plus host John McElroy gives his insight on why commercial truck fleets in the U.S. are real interested in natural gas and propane.

Some small insurers in the Berkshire stable, operating with names like Cypress Insurance Co., Redwood Fire and Casualty Insurance Co., or Continental Divide Insurance Co., insure ambulance drivers and tow - truck fleets, churches and sororities, hole - in - one contests and paper airplane tosses.

San Diego's Lytx, a maker of DriveCam video monitoring technology for commercial truck fleets, said Friday that it has added new private equity investors to support its growth.

Burch is the president of Jet Express, a roughly 330 - truck fleet that hauls loads for the automotive industry.

«We have a 10 - truck fleet of our own as well as trucks that come in from our customers.»

Because of the speed with which customers can make their orders, as well as the efficiency with which Van Bennett makes use of its seven - truck fleet, 95 percent of the company's orders are filled within one day.

Last year, it replaced its truck fleet to minimize breakdowns and ensure on - time delivery and cold - chain management.

In addition to adding an automated routing system and GPS systems to its 55 - truck fleet to expedite deliveries, Nebraskaland also lowered the cubing on its trucks.

It also operates a loading dock on Haida Gwaii in Queen Charlotte, British Columbia, and a 35 - truck fleet,.

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

«We're increasing water efficiency at bottling plants, we're reducing emissions from our truck fleets and we are recycling more and wasting less.»

The findings are the first to emerge from an innovative new collaboration in which The Coca - Cola Company, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple Group agreed to share proprietary data on their truck fleets with the ABA.

Over the past months, the company has converted ten percent of its truck fleet to environmentally - friendly fuels, as its tests out both electric trucks and CNG trucks in advance of a full conversion.

Dear EarthTalk: What are the big delivery companies like FedEx and UPS doing to green their truck fleets and operations in general?

I need to design a truck fleet monitoring system and make a prototype of it during my traineeship this year.

Also, the Blue Oval did put a 6 - truck fleet of next - gen F - 150 prototypes into service for early testing, and those pickups proved their durability — and that of the truck's high - strength aluminum cargo bed — during more than 350,000 miles of real - world, real - work operation.

Ford Chairman William Ford last year reneged on a 2001 promise to improve fuel economy in his company's truck fleet 25 percent over the first half of the decade.

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