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Comment by Dale and Laure Simpson on July 10, 2008 at 12:42pm

If there are any companies or engineers that have new technology that is at the testing stage and are in need of commercial equipment to use in your product testing I would be willing to help coordinate locating the needed equipment for the testing.

Comment by Dale and Laure Simpson on July 10, 2008 at 9:33am

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Comment by Dale and Laure Simpson on July 10, 2008 at 8:47am

Here is a short article about the Port of Long Beach purchasing some heavy duty (class 8?) trucks that will use liquid natural gas. I wonder about the possibilities of converting existing engines to natural gas and how difficult a supply chain for re-fueling would be to put in place.

Long Beach port buys 300 new trucks for $35 million

The Port of Long Beach has placed a $35 million order for 300 brand-new heavy-duty trucks as part of its plan to replace thousands of older, more polluting drayage trucks. One hundred of the new trucks will run on liquid natural gas, and the others are clean-burning diesel models.

The port will lease the trucks to companies that have been approved to operate at the port.

“Beginning Oct. 1, we’re banning some of the oldest trucks – the 1988 and older trucks,” said port spokesman Art Wong. “Just to make sure that those drivers have an opportunity to replace their trucks before that deadline, we’ve preordered these trucks so the priority for these trucks will be to replace those very old trucks.”

As Wong said, on Oct. 1 trucks with 1988 or earlier model-year engines will be outlawed at the Port of Long Beach. And by 2012 all trucks that were built in 2006 or earlier will be banned.

The port, meanwhile, will continue to buy more new, low-emission trucks to replace the older fleets.

– By Reed Black, staff writer
reed_black@landlinemag.com

Comment by Bill Mollring on July 8, 2008 at 3:31pm

I look forward to watching your group's progress and updates. For more information on Mariah Power's Windspire please contact me at mrbillmaui@yahoo.com or 831 402-2037
http://www.emsystems.net
Our group site at Pickins Plan is listed as: Mariah Power.
Thank you and Aloha. Bill Mollring

Comment by Linda C on July 8, 2008 at 12:05pm

My husband is a retired VP with the old Campbell 66 Express company, plus ran some trucks of his own. We discuss the problems often and while we are not now in the loop, we are still concerned for all transportation people. I will be following this discussion.

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