For example, one of our clients manufactures parts for trains, trucks, and heavy vehicles.
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Further, real technological progress has been made on natural-gas-powered heavy vehicles, such as line-haul tractors, garbage trucks and buses.
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The civilian cargo aircraft that crashed was reportedly hauling military equipment including heavy vehicles, in addition to other cargo.
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The commission has pointed out that current price signals are tilted in favour of the use of cars and heavy vehicles.
They said there were signs that heavy vehicles had entered the area and removed evidence from the plane, including its engines.
Tires themselves are also better at maintaining the kind of grip needed to keep heavy vehicles on the road during hard cornering.
The A400M fuselage has been designed with a spacious cabin, making it suitable for the transport of bulky cargo like helicopters, heavy vehicles, missile batteries and light vehicles placed side by side.
Seeking to boost Germany's energy efficiency by 3% a year, it proposes offering tax incentives to modernise buildings and imposing road tolls not only on heavy vehicles but also on light trucks.
Transport Scotland said about 30, 000 vehicles used the bridge every day, with 11% of the traffic made up of heavy goods vehicles.
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Sales of medium and heavy commercial vehicles surged 43% over July of 2009, Tata said.
But a spokesman said some heavy goods vehicles were having problems on routes with gradients causing delays.
He will visit the port, the embarkation platforms for heavy goods vehicles travelling on the Eurotunnel freight shuttles.
Currently only buses, taxis and heavy goods vehicles are checked yearly for faults.
It claims that taxes on heavy goods vehicles cover only 70% of the costs they impose on the public.
Spot checks on heavy goods vehicles on the A55 in north Wales found the majority breaking the law, say police.
Then we have Brazil, with first quarter sales of cars and light and heavy commercial vehicles up 4.7%, to 852, 000.
"We're advising motorists, in particular heavy goods vehicles, to avoid making journeys unless they are absolutely necessary, " Avon and Somerset Police said.
In 2008, London created its Low Emission Zone (LEZ) to encourage the most polluting heavy diesel vehicles driving in the city to become cleaner.
It has brought Operation Stack into effect - which means more than 2, 300 coastbound heavy goods vehicles can be parked on the M20 motorway.
He said part of the problem with the road between Huntingdon and Cambridge was the number of junctions which mixed local traffic with heavy goods vehicles.
Police in Gloucestershire received reports of heavy goods vehicles stuck on a number of roads and salt supplies in the county ran so low that only A-roads were gritted on Thursday.
If heavy goods vehicles had to meet the capital costs of the track, as rail freight has to do, they pay even less of their way only 59%, according to the Oxford study.
The Pentagon has a specific agenda and through the political support of key members of the House and Senate are able to proceed with heavy launch vehicles to carry out the specific mission of the military.
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Heavy goods vehicles make up less than 2% of all vehicles but they are responsible for a third of all nitrous-oxide emissions, nearly half of all particulates and a quarter of carbon dioxide generated by road transport.
She insists the practice largely stems from fear, not arrogance, due to the high number of cyclists killed each year by heavy goods vehicles turning left at junctions, and says ministers should concentrate on tackling such deaths if they really want to make the roads safer.
Such heavy-duty vehicles account for 17% of all petroleum usage in the US. An example: a heavy duty 18-wheeler might travel 60, 000 miles per year and get 5 mpg (using 12, 000 gallons of diesel fuel).
People often carry heavy loads in vehicles so they need to be durable.
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For example, updated fuel efficiency standards for light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles were incorporated in AEO2012 and AEO2013, tending to lower CO2 emissions relative to earlier projections.
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On Tuesday, August 9th, the President will travel to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia, to announce first-of-their-kind fuel-efficiency standards for work trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles.
So far, heavy-duty vehicles appear to be excluded, and either way, it's unclear how many years auto makers might have to work black boxes into their future models.
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