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How Mobil Delvacâ„¢ Helped Nussbaum Transportation

How the Mobil Delvacâ„¢ lubicrants helped this award-winning trucking company take engine performance to the next level. With our customized lubrication program, they were able to increase uptime by extending their oil change intervals from every 50,000 miles to 75,00 miles

November 1, 2022
BusinessFuel

4 Lubrication Strategies for Keeping Your Trucks on the Road

See how fleet and maintenance managers can keep trucks on the road for longer and save money with these 4 lubrication best practices from the Mobil Delvac™ team. Plus, learn how our experts can help you implement them successfully.  

November 1, 2022
BusinessFuel

Wyoming Group: Most Local Refineries Sell Fuel Elsewhere

Most of Wyoming’s output of diesel, renewable diesel and biodiesel is sent to other states rather than being used locally.

October 27, 2022
GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel

The US Is Exporting Record Oil and Fuel Even as East Coast Faces Shortages

The U.S. exported a record amount of crude and fuel in mid-October, even as the East Coast grapples with shortages of both diesel and gasoline.

October 26, 2022
BusinessFuel

9 MPG Fleet’s Guide to Fuel Economy, Sustainability & Profitability

Program Aired: October 6, 2022. MVT Solutions (a subsidiary of Mesilla Valley Transportation) shows how easy it is to improve fuel economy, sustainability, and fleet profitability. The old ways of endless conference calls, laborious and time consuming in-service tests, and frustration have been replaced by racecar engineering and proven success with a group of the biggest fleets in North America.

October 6, 2022
BusinessTechnology

Driving Your Fleet Towards Idle Reduction

Program Airs: September 8, 2022, 2 p.m. ET. Idle time, whether it’s time spent waiting to load or unload a shipment or in a scale house line up, has significant impacts on your fleet operations. It increases the carbon emissions produced by your fleet, quietly consumes your fuel and personnel budgets, reduces operational efficiencies, and creates bottlenecks along your drivers’ routes. According to SmartWay, a partner of the US EPA, if each driver in a 25-truck fleet idled for only two hours, that fleet would burn 40 gallons of diesel each day, at a cost of over $46,000/year. 

September 8, 2022
GovernmentFuel

Minnesota Governor Extends Driving Hours for Fuel Transportation

With lower fuel inventories and harvest season expected to increase demand, Minnesota’s governor extended for another month an order enabling more driving hours to transport fuel.

August 18, 2022
GovernmentFuel

Diesel Falls 8.2¢ to Reach $4.911 a Gallon

The national average price of diesel continued on its downward path, dropping 8.2 cents to settle at $4.911 a gallon, according to Energy Information Administration data released Aug. 15.

August 15, 2022
GovernmentBusinessFuel

Quest to Curb Gas Prices Sends Biden on Saudi Trip

President Joe Biden seeks to salvage relations with Saudi Arabia in a Mideast trip that risks political embarrassment unless near-record U.S. gasoline prices swiftly come back to Earth.

July 13, 2022
BusinessFuel

5 tips to recruit and retain top technician diesel talent

The growing shortage of technicians serving the trucking industry is a critical problem for fleet maintenance managers. But you can keep your fleet on the road and retain great talent with these tips from George Arrants and the ASE Foundation. Download the tip sheet here.

July 1, 2022