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* Texas - Peterbilt concerned about Federal GHG requirements

-- Peterbilt Motors Co. is eager to see how the upcoming second phase of federal greenhouse-gas regulation will tell truck makers how to score the carbon dioxide emissions from their vehicles... Since January 2014, manufacturers have had to file reports on emissions by truck model, which collectively must fit under an aggregate limit. The proposed new rule, expected sometime in June, will probably make the task more difficult, said Peterbilt Marketing Director Todd Acker... To control CO2 emissions, the government is trying to push manufacturers to sell models that are especially fuel efficient... Executives for Peterbilt, a division of Paccar Inc., discussed the role of technology in their trucks, ranging from telematics to keep vehicles well-maintained to fuel-saving devices and futuristic bio-monitoring that could one day sense muscle tension in a driver and then automatically adjust his or her seat... 
Denton, TXS, USA - Bloomberg News/Transport Topics, by T.J. Kirkpatrick - 29 May 2015