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Published - Friday, May 09, 2008

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Schneider National trucking company cuts top speed to 60 mph


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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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down2512 wrote on May 9, 2008 3:24 PM:

" schneider has had governors on their equipment since the late 80's. then they were set at 55mph. do you know the only profit here is for the company! the driver with a family needs to run x amount of miles each week to make the money he needs for his family and bills etc. when a company does this it hurts the drivers, less time in the sleeper, trying to get longer loads, it will be interesting to see how many more accidents and driver firings result from this decision. "

al gore wrote on May 9, 2008 1:39 PM:

" Its not the TAXES its Republican INFLATION "

neves wrote on May 9, 2008 1:27 PM:

" Hey - A free market economy actually working? CLinton and Obama are probably scratching there heads in confusion. How could a mean nasty for profit corporation make such a move without the government taxing them into doing it? "

thinktwice wrote on May 9, 2008 1:01 PM:

" Way to go, a responsible company!! now if only other americans would join in! "

Never cease to amaze me wrote on May 9, 2008 11:13 AM:

" Now if they can just get them to stay in the right lane on the interstate all would be well. "

Al Gore wrote on May 9, 2008 9:43 AM:

" Good decision Schneider And Who would Know better than Myself? "


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