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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.

Idle time issues

June 30, 2006 @ 7:54 am


Q.		Jonh could you send me some information on what other Distribution Company’s are doing to improve idle time. Thanks Paul Kolles

Installing Anti -Idling technologies like our auxiliary fuel fired heater systems or battery powered A/C systems and APU's. Running wide based tires and/with automatic tire pressure regulators Making the fleet more Aerodynamic etc. Smartway, an EPA run organization has a great web site, I've attached a link here for you and paraphrased some of their ideas, which I've mentioned. Here's the web site for the calculator: http://www.epa.gov/smartway/calculator/loancalc.htm The SmartWay Upgrade Kit consists of the following: 1. An idle reduction device (mobile) 2. Wide based tires (e.g., Michelin X-1) 3. Advanced trailer aerodynamics 4. An emission control device (e.g., oxidation catalyst 5. Automatic tire inflation