Raley's Takes Clean-Exhaust Diesels For A Spin
If you find yourself downwind of a Raley's grocery truck with a shiny chrome exhaust stack, feel free to breathe, local pollution regulators say.
It's the whiff of the future, a not-too-distant day when California trucks and buses will be required to puff smokelessly and mostly non-toxic.
Raley's, the region's No. 1 grocery seller, has been testing an experimental diesel exhaust cleansing system on its newer-model big rigs for the past five months, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District.
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