Drivers of government fleets are spending significant fuel budget while emitting enormous amounts of greenhouse gas and other tailpipe emissions from idling.
Freedom e-GEN provides virtually unlimited power to run job site tools, equipment, and hotel loads for a significant amount of time without wasting fuel.
Volta Power Systems and Summit Bodyworks announced a new partnership with Matco Tools to offer an idle-free, lithium-ion power system to Matco franchisees.
Fleet managers use driver education, incentives, company policy enforcement and telematics to reduce idling and save fuel.
Following early deployments of pure electrics or hybrids, fleets examine new medium-duty hybrid plug-in vehicles for the “right fit.”
From the equipment you spec and maintain, to the fuel you buy, to driver training and incentives, you’ll find tips for nearly any type of fleet.
Bruce Purkey knows where the electrons go. And, as president of Purkey’s Fleet Electric and his many activities in the Technology & Maintenance Council of the American Trucking Associations, he’s well aware that some of them flow to batteries that support the electric-over-hydraulic systems for liftgates on trucks and trailers. Usually there are two and as many as four Group 31 batteries, like the ones on a truck or tractor.
In some ways, the truck of the future is here today. What would a truck driver from decades ago think if he were suddenly transported from his own time into one of today’s state-of-the-art rigs?
Power inverters – the devices that convert standard battery (DC) power to AC household power – are becoming more commonplace in the trucking industry. Depending upon whom you ask, that’s to the delight, or chagrin of fleet and maintenance managers, who often have a love/hate relationship with inverters.
In June's special fuel-savings issue, we promised you more stories about how fleets are cutting their idle time.
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