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Article: Six Ways to Reduce Fuel Costs.
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- Construction Equipment
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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The American Trucking Association (ATA) recommends six strategies to reduce fuel consumption, in what the group says is the first industry-wide environmental sustainability program to combat global climate change.
The initiative, titled Trucks Deliver a Cleaner Tomorrow, includes a website detailing the recommendations. ATA says implementing them would eliminate the equivalent of CO2 generated by 9.6 million Americans for one year.
The six recommendations are:
1) Limiting speed governors on new trucks to a maximum of 68 miles per hour, and reducing the national speed limit to 65 mph for all vehicles.
2) ...