The trucking industry and American Trucking Associations (ATA) launches Trucks Deliver a Cleaner Tomorrow, a affairs to abate ammunition burning and cut CO2 emissions, and thereby action the claiming of all-around climate. ATA has committed itself to a alternation of measures that can abate ammunition burning by 86 billion gallons and CO2 emissions by 900 actor bags for all cars over the next 10 years Our proposals are practical, reasonable, and doable. They accomplish ecology sense, and they accomplish accepted sense. The affairs is a assiduity of ecology advances fabricated by the trucking industry over the endure division century But there's no agnosticism that today's skyrocketing agent prices accord us an added allurement to cycle it out above the industry, and for Congress to accommodate the abutment the affairs needs. This address represents a acme of abounding years of ground-breaking efforts on the allotment of the trucking industry to accommodate the a lot of able agent burning abridgement techniques into their business models, and to carriage appurtenances to their destination in the a lot of able way we can for us and for our customers As the claiming of all-around altitude change has emerged, we accept the added catalyst to accomplish advance on those innovations.
Washington, D.C. -- The American Trucking Associations (ATA) today launched a extensive affairs of initiatives to set the industry on the alley against a added acceptable approaching beneath the banderole Trucks Deliver a Cleaner Tomorrow. This first-ever industry-wide ecology sustainability affairs identifies a alternation of initiatives that will abate ammunition burning and CO2 emissions, thereby allowance action the claiming of all-around altitude change.
ATA President and CEO Bill Graves accepted the affairs as a battleground accomplishment that will accompany all trucking industry stakeholders to plan calm on these issues.
"ATA has committed itself to a alternation of measures that can abate ammunition burning by 86 billion gallons and CO2 emissions by 900 actor bags for all cars over the next 10 years," said Graves. "Our proposals are practical, reasonable, and doable. They accomplish ecology sense, and they accomplish accepted sense."
"The affairs is a assiduity of ecology advances fabricated by the trucking industry over the endure division century," Graves added. "But there's no agnosticism that today's skyrocketing agent prices accord us an added allurement to cycle it out above the industry, and for Congress to accommodate the abutment the affairs needs."
The address includes six key recommendations to abate ammunition burning and addresses the appulse of these activities on the environment. They are the agnate of eliminating the CO2 generated by 9.6 actor Americans for one year - almost according to the citizenry of the Chicago city area. The recommendations are displayed on a new Web site, www.trucksdeliver.org, calm with abounding data of the trucking industry's new commitments on sustainability:
- Set governors on new trucks to absolute speeds to no added than 68 mph and abate the civic acceleration absolute to 65 mph for all vehicles. Reduce engine idling. Increase ammunition ability by auspicious accord in the U.S. EPA SmartWay(SM) Transport Partnership Program. Reduce bottleneck by convalescent highways, if all-important by adopting the fuels tax. Use added advantageous barter combinations. Support civic ammunition abridgement standards for trucks.ATA President Graves was abutting at the barrage of the new sustainability affairs by Margo Oge, Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the CEOs and key admiral of abounding of the nation's arch bales and trucking companies, including FedEx Freight, UPS Inc., Schneider National, Titan Transfer Inc., and Con-way Inc. These companies acerb abutment this industry-wide accomplishment and the recommendations at the affection of the new sustainability program.
The address was developed by the ATA Sustainability Task Force, headed by Tommy Hodges, ATA Vice Chairman and Chairman of Titan Transfer, Inc.
"This address represents a acme of abounding years of ground-breaking efforts on the allotment of the trucking industry to accommodate the a lot of able agent burning abridgement techniques into their business models, and to carriage appurtenances to their destination in the a lot of able way we can for us and for our customers," said ATA Vice Chairman Hodges. "As the claiming of all-around altitude change has emerged, we accept the added catalyst to accomplish advance on those innovations."
The ATA affiliate companies represented on the Sustainability Task Force are:
Air Products & Chem. Inc. Allentown, Pa.
Arkansas Best Corp. Fort Smith, Ark.
Caterpillar Inc. Peoria, Ill.
Combined Transport Inc. Central Point, Ore.
Con-way Inc. Ann Arbor, Mich.
Cummins Inc. Columbus, Ind.
Detroit Diesel Detroit, Mich.
Engine Manufacturers Association Chicago, Ill.
FedEx Freight Memphis, Tenn.
Freightliner LLC Portland, Ore.
Grammer Industries Inc. Grammer, Ind.
International Truck & Engine Corp. Fort Wayne, Ind.
Maverick Transportation LLC Little Rock, Ark.
Minnesota Trucking Association Roseville, Minn.
O & S Trucking Inc. Springfield, Mo.
Petroleum Transport Inc. Belle, W.Va.
Schneider National Inc. Green Bay, Wis.
Swift Transportation Co. Inc. Phoenix, Ariz.
Titan Transfer Inc. Shelbyville, Tenn.
UPS Freight Richmond, Va.
US Xpress Enterprises, Inc. Chattanooga, Tenn.
Volvo Trucks N.A. Greensboro, N.C.
Wabash National Corp. Lafayette, Ind.
Wal-Mart Transportation LLC Bentonville, Ark.
Waste Management Inc. Washington, D.C.
Watkins and Shepard Trucking Helena, Mont.
YRC Worldwide Inc. Overland Park, Kan.
For added advice on the Sustainability Program launched today amuse visit: http://www.trucksdeliver.org
(1) Based on a accumulation by Environmental Defense Fund that the boilerplate American generates 9.44 bags of CO2 annually.
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