Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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commercial carrier journal | september 2016 27 PRODUCT REVIEWS, OEM & SUPPLIER NEWS, AND EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT TRENDS BY JASON CANNON Untitled-25 1 8/11/16 2:03 PM WANT MORE EQUIPMENT NEWS? Scan the barcode to sign up for the CCJ Equipment Weekly e-mail newsletter or go to www.goo.gl/Ph9JK. than a comparable pre-Phase 2 unit. By 2027, that premium could balloon to more than $12,000. In 2027, additional efficien- cies on trailers are expected to push their cost upwards of $1,100. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says the Phase 2 initiative could save vehicle owners about $170 billion in fuel costs, and that the payback to truck and trailer owners for this technology will be about two years. Another of Phase 2's many legitimate questions: "How clean is clean enough?" Schaeffer says it would take more than 60 of today's clean diesel trucks to equal the emissions from a single truck built before 1990. In Southern California, more fine particles now come from brake dust and tire wear than from heavy-duty diesel trucks, he says. As a result of the clean diesel movement over the past decade, emissions from heavy-duty diesel trucks and buses have been reduced by 98 percent for NOx – an ozone precursor – and 98 percent for par- ticulate emissions, Schaeffer says. That's pretty clean, and we're already headed toward an even cleaner horizon. But you'd better start saving some pennies. JASON CANNON is Equipment Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal. E-mail jcannon@ randallreilly.com or call (205) 248-1175.