No left turn: Companies try to save fuel as prices riseFriday, May 16, 2008 20:30 pm CT Companies have altered shipping routes, slowed trucks to boost gas mileage, stepped up tire-pressure checks, combined deliveries and deployed technology to improve routes to the point of avoiding left turns because waiting for traffic to pass can consume more fuel than driving alternate routes. Every efficiency is a brake on rapidly rising fuel costs, up 22% for gasoline since last year and up ...... Click Here to read the entire article... Article courtesy of Yahoo! News - Search Results for trucking companies |