Closing the Fuel Economy Gap

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Jim Park’s Truck Talk
Volume 1 Number 10

A mile-per-gallon improvement in fuel economy could cut operating costs by more than a dime a mile. That’s a savings of at least $12,000 a year. With fuel now close to five dollars a gallon, or a buck and a half a litre, fuel economy is just too expensive a problem to ignore.

We’ve got three experts with us this week to help you cut your fuel costs; Chuck Blake, an application engineer with Detroit Diesel in Redford Michigan, Dave McKenna, the power train marketing manager for Mack Trucks in Allentown Pennsylvania, and Ed Saxman, the drive train product marketing manager, with Volvo Trucks in Greensboro North Carolina.

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Jim Park was a CDL driver and owner-operator from 1978 until 1998, when he began his second career as a trucking journalist. During that career transition, he hosted an overnight radio show on a Hamilton, Ontario radio station and later went on to anchor the trucking news in SiriusXM's Road Dog Trucking channel. Jim is a regular contributor to Today's Trucking and Trucknews.com, and produces Focus On and On the Spot test drive videos.


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