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Published - Friday, May 09, 2008

Schneider National trucking company cuts top speed to 60 mph

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — One of the nation's largest trucking companies is cutting the top speed for its 10,600 rigs to 60 mph.

Green Bay-based Schneider National says a top speed of 60 mph will save the company nearly 4 million gallons of fuel a year.

Even if a Schneider driver wanted to go faster, it wouldn't do any good to accelerate. Schneider's orange trucks are computer controlled.

Schneider has already been restricting the top speed to 63 mph.

The company says the environmental impact of cutting speed by three miles per hour reduces CO2 emissions by more than 83 million pounds per year. That's the equivalent of taking 7,259 cars off the nation's highways.

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