Fleets Focus on Emissions, SmartWay's Bynum Says

By Rip Watson, Senior Reporter

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GRAPEVINE, Texas — The new federal rule designed to reduce truck greenhouse-gas emissions by 10% or more starting in 2014 effectively is forcing manufacturers to focus on selling advanced pollution-reduction equipment to fleets that today don’t have the technology such as auxiliary power units, a government official said.

That was a key message from Cheryl Bynum, director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay program to attendees at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference and Exposition here.

Her agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last year set the first-ever standard for cutting emissions of carbon dioxide from engines and tractors. The standards take effect in the 2014 model year, with stricter emissions standards to become effective starting in 2017.

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