I would like to thank the Ministers of transport and of environement of Québec for the announcement today of a $45M budget aimed towards helping all the transport industry to acquire GHG reducing equipments. All the detail are not currently available on the web site of the ministry, the server is off-line.
I can not comment on the ways the funds are going to be distributed but, what is annexed to the press release a $4M part of these budgets is going to the maritime and rail transportation. This leaves a $41M part for the trucking industry. These allowances can go towards the purchases, installations, modifications or replacements of certain devices that will insure a better energy consumption. Among them, on board generators, climate control units, on board computers or aerodynamics improvement devices. When OBAC did its presentation at the National Assembly of Quebec to the Commission of Transport and Environment, on the speed limiter issue, we had made the suggestion to help the small business trucker to purchase these kind of equipments. I see that the idea didn’t stay on a shelve.
In the current state of the economy, these incentives are welcomed. Looked at it from the small business trucker’s seat, it is a wish that it will be evenly distributed among all trucking companies, big or small. Many large carriers have already invested big sums of money to get these devices but the small businesses are still in a struggle. The one more in need are the 5 trucks and less trucking operators.
This arrives at a good time. The price of a barrel of crude is on the rise. This will help one of the most important aspects of the trucking industry and make the difference in passing through the current crisis and going broke to save on fuel.
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