Trailer side skirts can offer 4% to 5% fuel savings at highway speeds, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay program, and some manufacturers claim even more. The typical cost per ...

As diesel fuel costs continue to rise, fleets and shippers are thinking of innovative ways to reduce fuel consumption. Both have found that monitoring trailer performance plays an important role in ...

Stellar FuelMate Multi-Tank Fuel Trailers' unique design eliminates the need for a hazmat license, so you don t need a specially qualified operator to take fuel directly to your equipment. Stellar ...

The refrigeration units used in cold transport trailers are typically powered by small diesel engines, which use up non-renewable fuel and release greenhouse gases, just like their big brothers. The ...

We recently met up with Stellar and Jason Vertin, Stellar’s senior product manager for fuel and lube trailers, who showed us the company’s fuel trailers. Stellar builds work trucks, trailers and ...

Creating an improved aerodynamic shape for truck trailers by mounting sideskirts can lead to a cut in fuel consumption and emissions of up to as much as 15%. Earlier promising predictions, based on ...

A divided federal appeals court has thrown out portions of the 2016 Phase 2 greenhouse gas emissions rule that would have required heavy- and medium-duty trailers for the first time ever to adopt some ...

Dutch vehicle integrated PV (VIPV) specialist IM efficiency has developed an energy system made for fleets of freight-carrying trucks and transport trailers. It includes solar panels, a battery and an ...

There aren’t many things less aerodynamic than a box. And a dry van trailer is basically a 53-foot box on wheels. The drag caused by that box and its effect on fuel economy is a challenge that has ...

LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Fuel Systems (Quantum), a fully integrated alternative energy company, has been selected by VoltaGrid to deliver industry-leading natural gas ...

Trailers -- the big cargo carriers that transport much of the nation's goods -- could see major improvements in efficiency if the Obama administration chooses to regulate them. The president's call ...

Paper Transport, based in Green Bay, WI, has signed a vehicle test agreement with American Power Group (APG), a subsidiary of GreenMan Technologies, to run a trial of the company’s dual-fuel system.