Sustainability

Natural gas takes centre stage at Outdoor Farm Show

WOODSTOCK, Ont. -- Farmers attending Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show (COFS) this year got a chance to kick the tires on some natural gas-powered light and heavy trucks.

Bridgestone Commercial Solutions introduces new R268 Ecopia tire for high scrub environments

NASHVILLE, Tenn.  – Today Bridgestone Commercial Solutions rolls out a new edition to its Ecopia product line.

Can intermodal transportation expand beyond its niche? Find out at the Surface Transportation Summit

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Years ago, intermodal movements were only cost and service effective on freight movements of 1500 miles and up. But intermodal transportation has gone through a renaissance over the last decade and this number is now well...

Early LNG adopters experience mixed results

TORONTO, Ont. -- Representatives from two of Canada’s most experienced liquefied natural gas (LNG) truck fleets opened up about their experiences with the technology during a candid conversation at the first annual Natural Gas Vehicle...

Should government do more to encourage uptake of natural gas in trucking?

TORONTO, Ont. -- Government has an important role to play in establishing natural gas as a viable transportation fuel, including resisting the urge to slap a road tax on the clean-burning fuel.

Government official says little about feds’ plans for natural gas taxation

TORONTO, Ont. -- Frank Des Rosiers, an assistant deputy minister with Natural Resources Canada, spoke at the first annual Natural Gas Vehicle Infrastructure Canada conference today, to provide a federal government perspective on the use of...

Why the trucking industry’s current interest in natural gas isn’t just a fad

TORONTO, Ont. -- The trucking industry has had its flirtations with natural gas in the past, so why will the present surge in interest be any different than previous experiences in the 80s and 90s, when the alternative fuel was examined and...

GE, Chelsea Natural Gas partner to make CNG more widely available in Canada

TORONTO, Ont. -- GE Oil and Gas has announced Chelsea Natural Gas has purchased 20 of its CNG In a Box fuelling systems, to make compressed natural gas more widely available to Canadian fleets.

DO TRAILER FAIRINGS REALLY SAVE FUEL?

So maybe you’ve been wondering, do those thing-a-ma-jiggers that go along the side of the trailer, or underneath it, just ahead of the axles, really save any fuel? I’m referring, of course, to trailer side skirts and aerodynamic...

FleetSmart’s third Mark Dalton novel is now On Ice

Mark Dalton rides again in “On Ice”, the third and final full-length novel which is now available free from Natural Resources Canada's FleetSmart program  Mark Dalton is the trucker-private detective character created by author...

Volvo takes out the trash, achieves zero landfill status

DUBLIN, Va. -- Volvo’s New River Valley truck plant has achieved zero landfill status, meaning all waste produced at the facility is now recycled, composed or converted to electricity.

Clean energy consortium to develop LNG fuelling network

HOUSTON, Texas -- A foursome of clean energy companies have teamed up to form Eagle LNG Partners, which will expand the growing network of liquefied natural gas fuelling stations in the US.

PIT shares test results for trailer side skirts, undercarriage devices

MONTREAL, Que. -- After five years of testing trailer side skirts and undercarriage fairings, the results are in, and the fuel savings are real.

Cummins subsidiary develops new hybrid system

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Crosspoint Kinetics, a subsidiary of Cummins Crosspoint, has developed a second-generation parallel-electric hybrid system that can be used in package delivery applications.

NAVISTAR ADDS MID-RANGE CUMMINS ENGINES

Navistar recently announced it’ll be offering the Cummins ISB mid-range engine in its International DuraStar medium-duty trucks. Bill Kozek, president of North America Truck and Parts with Navistar, emphasized the company is not exiting...