Diesel trucks

Revolutionizing diesel combustion — Net-Zero Carbon

Service Professionals Inc.'s exhaust reaction system saves money and emissions.

On this episode of Net-Zero Carbon, Tyler Cole, director of carbon intelligence at FreightWaves, chats with Jack Schickler, founder and CEO of Service Professionals Inc. (SPI), about the company’s SPIER exhaust reaction system.

The system “revolutionizes diesel combustion,” Schickler said. It has been tested nationwide for three years, and it’s now on the market. 

“With all the buzz about alternative energy, we started saying, ‘OK, but what do we have available to us right now?’” Schickler said....

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FreightWaves Classics/Pioneers: Rudolf Diesel’s engine powers global commerce

A 1962 White Motor Company tractor. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves @ Iowa 80 Trucking Museum)

FreightWaves and FreightWaves SONAR, the industry-leading freight forecasting platform, closely monitor and report on the supply and price of diesel in 135 markets. At this time, it is the fuel that drives the U.S. trucking industry.

It is unlikely that there are many Class 8 truck drivers still driving that ever drove trucks powered by gasoline; most gasoline-powered engines had been phased out by the mid-1950s when diesel engines replaced them.  

Early history of the diesel engine

The...

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