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Top of the News
Detroit Diesel reveals 2010 SCR packages
By Sean Kilcarr, senior editor
Picture a square metallic “box” that fits snugly under the passenger-side of a Class 8 truck cab, housing all the exhaust aftertreament components required to meet the 2010 emission standards – diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), diesel particulate filter (DPF), and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system.




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Today's Headlines
Phillips unveils liftgate-charge system
A new “intelligent” controller system from Phillips Industries is designed to choose the optimal source of power to fully charge liftgate batteries, without the risk of draining power needed for other vital equipment functions.




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Upcoming Events
U.S. Xpress chief to keynote ALK meeting
John White, president of U.S. Xpress, Inc. will deliver a keynote address entitled “One Year Later,” at the 2009 ALK Transportation Technology Summit, to be held April 20-22 in Princeton, NJ.




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Running Green
Evans retrofits exhaust filters for Virginia port
The Evans Network of Companies is one of the first fleets included in Virginia Port Authority's (VPA) "Green Operators" (GO) pilot program aimed at truckers engaged in port drayage. The program arranges low-cost financing to help fleets retrofit exhaust filters, Evans said.

Products
Red Dot offers ClimaCab
Red Dot Corp. has announced that Glacier Bay Inc.’s ClimaCab all-electric climate-control system will be available to its warehouse distributor network beginning this month.

Editors' Blogs
Trucks at Work: The pyramid of safety
By Sean Kilcarr, senior editor
got to spend some time this week out at the Orlando Executive Airport getting an up close and personal look at a variety of truck safety technologies, courtesy of ArvinMeritor – roll stability control (RSC), electronic stability control (ESC), and the OnGuard collision mitigation system. I’ve written about these technologies before, but what’s surprising to me is how long it’s taking to get them into widespread use in the trucking industry.

Trucking Around the World
Eaton to supply transmissions to Tata Motors
By Justin Carretta, online news editor
Eaton Corp. has signed a business agreement through 2014 with India’s largest automotive manufacturer, Tata Motors...

Trucking Video
Detroit Diesel SCR: Part 1
Detroit Diesel is putting all of its exhaust after-treatment components into what it calls a "one box" package. In this video, Rakesh Aneja, EPA 2010 program manager for Detroit Diesel, explains how truck exhaust gas flows through the "box."

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