Shorepower adds locations
Shorepower Technologies has added electric plug-in power pedestals to 17 more truckstops. White’s Travel Center in Raphine, Va., located at I-81/64, Exit 205, is the latest truckstop with electrification. White’s sister location, Lee Hi Travel ...
Three Midwest truckstops add Shorepower
Shorepower Technologies has added its services, which lets drivers plug in to grid power instead of idling, to three truckstops: Sapp Bros Travel Center, at Exit 440 on Interstate 80 in Omaha, Neb.; Broadway Flying ...
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Agency focuses on driver harassment The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Feb. 10 announced its intent to move forward with its rulemaking about electronic onboard recorders and hours-of-service supporting documents by preparing a supplemental notice of ...
Electrical connector kits available
Free kits to connect your truck to the electric grid are available through a federally funded program. Shorepower Technologies and Cascade Sierra Solutions are providing 1,300 connector kits through the U.S. Department of Energy Recovery Act ...
Rebates available for anti-idling equipment
The federal Shorepower Truck Electrification Project still has rebate money available for owner-operators and small fleet owners to purchase anti-idling equipment. The STEP program’s original $10 million in rebates is down to about $3 million, said ...
I-5 corridor to increase shorepower locations
Locations along Interstate 5 through California, Oregon and Washington will be outfitted with anti-idling technology this year. Electrical power pedestals will be added to six truck stops and travel centers along the I-5 corridor, five in ...
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New regs will increase truck cost The first-ever regulation for truck fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is expected to cut diesel use by 4 gallons per 100 miles traveled by the time 2018 models are ...
Plugged In
In an era of idling prohibitions and $4 fuel, the power switch is back on for truck stop electrification. Given a choice between a truck stop that offers shore power and one that doesn’t, owner-operator Michael ...
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