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Shell Lubricants' new research
and development facility in Shang-
hai, China, is playing a big role in
helping the global company develop
its next generation of heavy-duty
engine oils.
Those products are coming in
conjunction with the ongoing devel-
opment of the Proposed Category
11 oil standards.
PC-11 has two subcate-
gories: One of conventional
viscosity, or thickness, and
one of a lower viscosity.
The category and its two
offshoots likely will become
effective in late 2016 or early
2017, said Dan Arcy, Shell
OEM technical manager,
during a media event at the
Shanghai facility.
The low-viscosity oil will
boost fuel economy and
help reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, Arcy said. The
challenge has been develop-
ing the low-viscosity oil so it
offers the same engine wear
protections as conventional
viscosity grades.
— James Jaillet
Shell facility developing next-gen PC-11 oil
PORT TRUCKERS who began
striking July 7 at the Ports of
Los Angeles and Long Beach
voted unanimously five days
later to agree to a "cool-
ing-off" period. The drivers
picketed over wages, working
conditions and their classifica-
tion as contractors instead of
employees.
DIGITAL LOGS now can
be signed with electronic
signatures and submitted to
carriers to satisfy logbook
requirements, according to
revised Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration guidance
issued last month. This chang-
es 2011 guidance that said
drivers must print the digital
logs and sign them each day,
in addition to being able to
print records for the previous
24-hour period, maintain
printed and signed copies for
the previous seven days and
produce seven days' worth of
logs for enforcers.