FleetSmart on the Road Newsletter

Volume 1‚ 2005

• Slow Down‚ Check Your Pressure‚ and Don’t Be Idle
• Idle-free Quiet Zone
• FleetSmart Rebate – Got Yours Yet?
• What’s New
• Fuel Management 101 Workshops
• What’s Your Incentive?
• SmartDriver for Motor Coach

FleetSmart Newsletter – March 2004

• FleetSmart Rebate – Got Yours Yet?
• Idle-Free - Quiet Zone Campaign
• A New Arrival for the SmartDriver Family!
• Natural Gas Vehicle Pilot Project
• Urban Transportationa.k.a. «SmartDriver in the City»
• Biodiesel Initiative
• Stop By and Visit Our Booth
• Workshops for Municipalities
• SmartDriver
• Natural Resources Canada Signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian Trucking Alliance
• FleetSmart Profiles
• Workshop Videos

FleetSmart Newsletter – Spring 2003

• FleetSmart Launches Revitalized Web Site
• New Discussion Forum for Transportation Industry
• «Idle-Free Quiet Zone» Campaign – A Huge Success!
• Urban Trucking
• FleetSmart Now Has «Webshops»
• Truck Shows
• SmartDriver for Highway Trucking Professional Development Workshops
• A Partnership With the Canadian Association of Motive Power Educators
• Fuel Management 101
• Members – Keep Us Up to Date!

Case Studies

• Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada’s Star Truck Project

In 1999‚ FERIC launched a research project to demonstrate to the Canadian forest industry how better vehicle spec’ing‚ using commercially available technologies‚ can optimize log haul operations‚ reduce fuel consumption and environmental impacts and improve the mechanical availability of their equipment.

Benchmarking

• Private and For-Hire Trucking Fleets Operating Class 7 and 8 Power Units

Many experts believe that fuel efficiency benchmarking can help the inter-city trucking industry further reduce its energy consumption and curb GHG emissions.

Anational survey on fuel economy, with the support of all the major trucking associations in Canada, L-P Tardif & Associates Inc. conducted the survey in March 2000.