Less than five months after a fire damaged a Love's Travel Stop location in Roseburg, OR, Love's 312 opened last week with a number of improvements.
"First things first: The Arby's at our travel stop location in Roseburg has reopened. People have been asking about that," said General Manager Matt Gonsalves.
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While the truck makers are keeping their some of their plans quiet about the technologies they plan to deploy to meet the anticipated Greenhouse Gas Phase 2 emissions standards, they are not just sitting idly by.
In a review of new Class 8 model trucks in the recent issue of Fleet Owner, the OEMs shared some changes they are making NOW to make their trucks more fuel efficient.
If you have not read the article here is brief recap of some of the changes coming for 2017 models:
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Vnomics Corp., providers of True Fuel, announced it is providing matching funds, data and expertise to support research at the University of Rochester into the use of machine learning to improve the fuel efficiency of commercial vehicles. The company said its support is part of a grant awarded by the National Science Foundation for its Young Innovators Internship Program.
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Loadmasters with the 439th Airlift Wing, Air Force Reserve Command, load a 1982 Mack 1250 GPM pumper fire truck into the belly of a C-5B Galaxy cargo plane at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst NJ for a 3,700 mile journey to Managua, Nicaragua. Retired from the Mercer Engine No. 3 firefighting company of Princeton, NJ, this fire truck is being donated to a group of volunteer firefighters in Managua. (All photos courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense)
