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Cybergal
10-15-2009, 08:31 AM
Aid goes to truckers reducing emissions



RALEIGH — North Carolina truckers can apply for a piece of $517,500 in federal stimulus funds as rebates for equipment they buy that reduces emissions from heavy-duty diesel engines, the state says.

Purchases of new long-haul trucks are eligible. So are auxiliary power units, which are electric or low-emission engines used to power heaters, air conditioners and other devices in a truck's cab without idling the vehicle's engine.

Citizen Times (http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091015/POLITICS/91015001)

Uturn2001
10-16-2009, 03:53 PM
Wouldn't shock me if they ended up doing what California did. Spend all kinds of money getting truckers to install APU's and then turn around and tell them they can't use them.