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John Dennehy

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Mr. Dennehy has been V.P. of Marketing and Communications with Espar for 9 years. He has played an integral part in working with several levels of government agencies in both the U.S. and Canada to bring awareness to the challenges of idling, anti-idling technologies and the reduction of green house gases. Mr. Dennehy will entertain questions on anti-idling technologies, state regulations and state/province initiatives regarding rebates/incentives and also idling laws and fines within each state.

Archive for February, 2006

Europe
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006 @ 7:11 pm


Q.		I’ve been looking into idling and emissions reduction technologies and have found that European drivers don’t idle. I also found out they have a 24V system, unlike the 12V in the US. Does this partly explain why they don’t idle? ie is there much less risk of a dead battery when they use heating/power etc Thanks […]


A.		European’s don’t idle. Over 80% of the trucks in europe have auxiliary fuel fired heating systems, the same goes for automobiles. The reason is twofold but it has nothing to do with 24 volt systems. European’s are so much more aware of their environment than we are in N.A. and secondly, they pay as much as 3- 4 times more for fuel than we do, hence not wanting to waste it idling.

Vocational Trucks
Friday, February 17th, 2006 @ 8:20 am


Q.		Recent article Cost of Clean by Sean Kilcarr he speaks of the DPF needing cleaning or replacement at 200,000 to 400,000 miles. We at Titan Virginia Ready Mix will not put that many miles on our class 8 truck in eight years; we do how ever put many hours idling our trucks to keep the […]


A.		These Diesel Particulate Filters are relatively new technologies, and I am not an expert on this. Your best bet is to get in touch with your truck manufacturer to ask his opinion on cleaning and replacement. I did however talk to one of our dealers who is adept on this kind of thing and he indicated to me that your best bet would be to change or clean the DPF based on hours, which should be indicated in your service manual. We both believe that the idling you do will accelerate the load on the DPF requiring you to service at more frequent intervals. The number he gave me was 42 miles for every hour, so divide 200,000 miles by the 42 and you get 4,762.