SMYRNA, Delaware (AP) -- Delaware state officials have installed a facility to supply resting trucks with a power in an effort to cut down on harmful emissions and fuel costs.
The $547,500 facility at a Smyrna rest stop on Route 1 gives truck drivers access to drive-up stations that can supply low-priced power for their cars so that they don't have to idle their engines. It includes 24 spaces and will operate 24 hours a day.
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Is it for cars or trucks? The article says both.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of crap!
ReplyDeleteThey need all the help they can get at these fuel prices.
ReplyDeleteAs a person who has a family member of a truck driver, more of these power supplies at rest stops are needed. A lot of states are banning trucks from idling while parked, and it's be much cheaper and more efficient to run them through power supplies. Many of these truckers have refrigerators on board, and you can't run them just off your battery. Plus, you ever try sleeping everynight in the summer without a/c? If you put these power supplies in the right location, where there is a lot of freight running, and where there is a local/state ban on idling, you'll get plenty of business.
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ReplyDeleteThat's what idle-aire thought also. They went bankrupt.
They make all these stupid laws but don't address how to be implemented.
Need 10 hours sleep, but closing rest areas. Don't want engines idled, but drivers won't sweat or freeze, nor should they.
Maybe rest areas will succeed where truck stops have failed but I'm not holding my breath.