Category: Tech Talk

MVT Solutions Testing Demonstrates Fuel Savings For Rear Trailer Device

MVT Solutions Testing Demonstrates Fuel Savings For Rear Trailer Device

| April 20, 2022

The Aerovolution Booster-Tail achieved 5.04 gal/1000 miles fuel savings in recent test MVT Solutions, a provider of breakthrough fuel economy testing and design and development services for the trucking industry, reported test results for Aerovolution’s Booster-Tail for Class 8 tractor-trailers. The Booster-Tail, located at the rear of the trailer, uses natural air pressure to self-deploy […]

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<strong>Fleet Advantage Celebrates Earth Day 2022 With Complimentary Emissions Scorecards</strong> 

Fleet Advantage Celebrates Earth Day 2022 With Complimentary Emissions Scorecards 

| April 20, 2022

Fleet Advantage’s Pioneering Focus on Environmental Stewardship Has Helped Reduce Transportation’s Carbon Footprint  It is estimated that over a billion people participate in Earth Day every year, making it the largest secular observance in the world. As a leading innovator in truck fleet business analytics, equipment financing, and life cycle cost management (LCCM), Fleet Advantage recognizes Earth Day’s […]

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Concrete and Aggregate Company Reduces Emission with Hydrogen Fuel Enhancement System

Concrete and Aggregate Company Reduces Emission with Hydrogen Fuel Enhancement System

| April 20, 2022

Butler Concrete and Aggregate celebrates the installation of a fuel enhancement system with a new concrete drum wrap design in collaboration with Empire Hydrogen Energy Systems Inc Located in the rapidly developing area of Vancouver Island, Butler Concrete and Aggregate Ltd. (Butler) has implemented a hydrogen and oxygen fuel enhancement system to their fleet of […]

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ATLIS MOTOR VEHICLES AND VCST ANNOUNCE e-DRIVE COLLABORATION TO SUPPORT ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMMERCIALIZATION

ATLIS MOTOR VEHICLES AND VCST ANNOUNCE e-DRIVE COLLABORATION TO SUPPORT ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMMERCIALIZATION

| April 20, 2022

Collaboration integrates electric gearbox modules to help increase efficiency, range and enable true work truck performance characteristics  Atlis Motor Vehicles (ATLIS), a start-up mobility technology company developing an electric work truck and the batteries and motors to drive it, announced an effort with VCST, a world-class automotive supplier of powertrain components, to support its product development. […]

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Truckload volumes remained strong in March; spot rates declined

Truckload volumes remained strong in March; spot rates declined

| April 19, 2022

DAT reports weaker spot market rates and skyrocketing fuel costs in March overshadowed stronger truckload freight volumes Weaker spot market rates and skyrocketing fuel costs in March overshadowed stronger truckload freight volumes and record-high prices for loads moving under contract, said DAT Freight & Analytics, operators of the industry’s largest truckload freight marketplace and DAT […]

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Near-Zero Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Enters Fleet Service

Near-Zero Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Enters Fleet Service

| April 19, 2022

The Achates Power ULNOx Heavy-Duty demonstration truck has entered fleet service with Walmart Achates Power has announced that the cleaner, heavy-duty diesel engine it developed in a project funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and several partners has entered fleet service with WALMART Corporation in a Peterbilt 579 tractor. It is the only […]

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