The 3.2 million big rigs on U.S. roads today burn some 25 billion gallons of diesel annually.
Overturned big rigs and cars littered portions of the roadway, and thousands more were believed to be stuck in the traffic.
That is because the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved retrofit technology for big rigs that lets them burn LNG and diesel.
But many of the Latino workers have been sleeping in tent cities, hurricane-damaged hotel rooms, or even the campers of their big rigs.
While there is no shortage of state-of-the-art diesel technology in America, it mostly appears in engines for big rigs, buses, tractors and locomotives.
Battery troubles pose the single biggest reason for AAA response calls during the summer, according to AAA. Another common problem is overheated vehicles--especially big rigs towing boats, say, or ATVs.
If not in the race cars, she hopes it will do it at least in the big rigs that haul the cars from race shop to tracks all over the country, burning so much diesel it makes Munter cringe.
The storm system swatted down power lines and uprooted trees, flicked big rigs on their sides and yanked off part of the terminal roof at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport, where some 1, 500 area residents had taken shelter in a tunnel.
What California's highway department described as "hundreds of vehicles" got stuck on State Route 58 between Bakersfield and the community of Tehachapi on Tuesday night, California's highway department reported, and at least a few big rigs and some cars remained Wednesday morning, a highway patrol dispatcher said.
Mr. SIEGLER: Back at the reintroduction site, Bob Leachman says the black-footed ferret's survival depends on how intense the drilling is, and he believes there's every indication given the current boom, that big trucks, drill rigs and roads will soon dot stop this landscape.
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