Bi-fuel impressions

The momentum toward natural gas as a motor fuel has been building for several years, and we don’t know how far it will take the national “fleet.” Some people would like gas to be a major automotive fuel because it’s comparatively clean and “green,” d…

Volvo Trucks Bringing LNG Engine, But Looking at Other Fuels

Volvo Group President and CEO Olof Persson joined Ron Huibers, president of Volvo Trucks North American sales and marketing, in Miami on Friday to announce Volvo’s plans to launch a 13-litre liquefied natural gas engine for North America in 2014.

Truck-driving classes offered

Classes begin June 19 for a joint BCCC and Pamlico Community College truck-driver training program, which will train students to drive a tractor-trailer and obtain their Class-A commercial driver’s licenses.