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CR England Offers Green Truck Driving School Training

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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CR England Wins EPA Excellence Award

This award is great news for truck driving school students who are interested in protecting the environment. Now students can feel better knowing that they are training with an industry leader that is also making a conscious effort to conserve energy and lower green house gases.

The award that C.R. England, Inc. received is an Environmental Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWaySM Transport Partnership. The award is directly related to the company’s leadership in conserving energy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions from its transportation and freight activities. The award was announced at the American Trucking Association’s Annual Management Conference & Exhibit in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Here are some interesting facts that most likely attributed to the excellence award. Over time CR England has saved 49,023,390 gallons of diesel fuel and has been able to decrease carbon dioxide emissions by 544,160 tons. Most of the savings have come via the implementation of fuel saving strategies and the installation of aerodynamic equipment on tractors and refrigerated trailers.

When you choose a CR England truck driving school for your training, your learning from an award winning environmentally friendly trucking company that has been in business for almost 90 years. CR England truck schools guarantee you a job after you have completed the training program. CR England strives for excellence and operates under the trademarked “DRIVE LIFE” motto. Contact a company recruiter if your interested in CDL training or visit www.CREngland.com for more information about our truck driving school program.

For more information about SmartWay you can visit: http://www.epa.gov/smartway .

B5 Biodiesel Makes Big Move

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

This week some news articles have been flying around about B5 bio diesel. an article on Chron.com confirmed that that 15,000 barrels of B5 bio diesel have been piped from Georgia to Virginina and from Georgia to Mississippi.

This is the first reported piping of the diesel fuel blend. According to a 2007 law 1 billion gallons of B5 need to be injected into the nations fuel supply by 2012. Students in trucking schools and professional truck drivers should be prepared by the 2012 deadline.

This big announcement came from Kinder Morgan Energy Partners. A more complete article about this big step towards a change in diesel fuel use also ran in the New York Times Energy & Environment section on July 2nd, 2009.  The article written by Kate Galbraith discusses a small issue regarding the possibility of biodiesel contaminating jet fuel that runs through the pipe line. 

I think we know a about a work around for the issue of pipe contamination, that requires a tanker endorsement. Certainly in our current economic environment we could use a few more jobs, why not make them truck driving  jobs!

The articles mentioned above can be found at:
Chron.com: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/6505588.html

New York Times: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/first-biodiesel-pipeline-starts-operations/