Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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commercial carrier journal | july 2018 23 JASON CANNON is Equipment Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal. E-mail jcannon@randallreilly.com or call (205) 248-1175. "If we are able to reach these [targets], we could save 33 million oil barrels every year," Roget says. For perspective, the United States consumes nearly 20 million barrels of oil every day — the equivalent of about 37 percent of all the energy consumed in the country. But trucking's share of that pie is falling. According to the Diesel Tech- nology Forum, trucks equipped with clean diesel engines and advanced emissions control sys- tems made up 30 percent of the trucks on the road last year. Allen Schaeffer, DTF's ex- ecutive director, says nearly 3 million heavy-duty diesel com- mercial vehicles introduced in the United States from 2011 through 2016 are now on the road, with the newest gener- ation of commercial vehicles having saved 4.2 billion gallons of diesel fuel and reduced 43 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, 21 million tonnes of nitrogen oxides and 1.2 million tonnes of particulate matter. The road can be rough It's important to note that no green energy solution – be it clean diesel, electricity or natural gas – is 100-percent green. e equipment used to mine the cobalt, zinc and copper needed in batteries isn't always eco-friendly, and neither is the process. Google the word "fracking," and you'll find more headlines about natural gas extraction that you possibly could read. Making the sausage is oen ugly. e end to green energy must justify the means, but thanks to fleet-level efforts such as tire retreading and oil recycling, you don't always have to cut a giant check to get there. WANT MORE EQUIPMENT NEWS? Scan the barcode to sign up for the CCJ Equipment Weekly e-mail newsletter or go to www.goo.gl/Ph9JK. Lite Check_CCJ0618_PG.indd 1 4/27/18 1:32 PM