Gosford City Council is using one of the latest Isuzu trucks to help it win the war on pollution
Gosford City Council is one of the first Australian local government bodies to insist on Euro IV compliant trucks in its fleet, trucks that better the current national emissions standard.
The move is one of several initiatives of a corporate greenhouse gas reduction strategy adopted by Council’s Fleet Services to reduce the fleet’s 14 percent
contribution to overall Gosford City Council emissions.
Council recently took delivery of the first of these vehicles, an Isuzu FVR 1000 medium tipper from Gilbert & Roach, Gosford.
According to Gosford Council’s Acting Manager Fleet Services, Peter Armour, Euro 4 is Council’s minimum standard for truck emissions, a standard that exceeds the national requirement that came into effect in February this year as ADR 80/02.
To meet the latest ADR80/02 exhaust emissions requirements most truck manufacturers settled for the US EPA04 standard, Isuzu went to the more stringent Euro IV standard which results in trucks that produce as little as one sixth the particulate matter emissions of US EPA04 compliant engines.
The Isuzus feature Exhaust Gas Recirculation systems, variable geometry system turbochargers and a Diesel Particulate Diffuser exhaust after treatment. They not only produce fewer particulate emissions (smoke, soot and unburned hydrocarbons) but less greenhouse gases.
Despite the impressive environmental credentials of the New Generation SiTEC Series II engines, they offer more power and torque than their predecessors yet use less fuel.
The latest 2008 Isuzu trucks are up to 10% more fuel efficient than the superseded models
Under its corporate greenhouse gas reduction strategy council is also trialling turbo diesel cars, ultra low sulphur diesel fuel, CNG and LPG fuels.