Several
technologies and practices can be used to assist drivers in reducing truck
idling. Reducing or eliminating prolonged idling of long-haul trucks can save
up to 1,000 gallons of fuel per truck each year, reduce pollution emissions,
and lower engine maintenance costs. The use of one of several idle control
technologies such as auxiliary power units (APU) and truck stop electrification
(TSE) that provide heat, air conditioning, and electrical power can minimize
fuel consumption.
Click here for "A Glance at Clean Freight
Strategies: Idle Reduction” (EPA) 
Frequent
Questions
on Idling from EPA's SmartWay Transport
Partnership Program
Click here
for the SmartWay Technology Package Savings Calculator for Fleets
Argonne
National Lab information on Heavy Vehicle Idling
Click here
for ANL's Cost Savings Worksheet (Excel)
The
latest edition of the National Idling
Reduction Network News
Idle
Reduction Policies
From
North Carolina: City of Concord,
City of Salisbury, NC Schools
all must adopt "policies and procedures to reduce students' exposure
to diesel emissions" (H1502)
Others:
Houston Schools, Minnesota,
National Listing of Idle Reduction
Regulations
If
you have a policy and would like for it to be posted here,
please email it to a CCFC Coordinator.
2004
Truckstop Electrification Grant
Check out the
following links for a story and
an editorial in the Salisbury
Post andpress releases from Centralina
and EPA about the
recently received truckstop electrification grant for the Derrick Truckstop
in Rowan County.
