The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has completed regulatory changes resulting from the June 2001 agreement on uniform regulations governing the weight and dimensions of highway transport vehicles shipping operating within Atlantic Canada. Culminating two years of discussion and a public consultation program, these regulations, coupled with similar regulations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, eliminate one of the most commonly cited barriers to efficient truck transportation within the region.

The changes brought about by the new regulations with respect to allowed vehicle dimensions apply primarily to new vehicles of model year 2003 and later. Other changes to existing equipment are planned through a transition period extending through December 2009 which will allow trucking companies and equipment manufacturers to phase-out equipment that does not comply with the new regulations. Of note, there will be some immediate allowable registered weight limit changes for particular axle groups and gross vehicle weights.

Useful Links

The Internet offers a number of sites useful for finding information on alternative fuel vehicles. Several of the organizations listed above provide links to related sites from their web sites. You might try the sites described below, or use your favorite search engine (such as Google or Yahoo) and appropriate key words to identify more specific resources.

Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicles and Characteristics
Transportation Energy Data Book
URL:https://www-cta.ornl.gov/data/chapter6.shtml

Alternative Fuel Vehicles
URL: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/current.shtml

Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress
URL: https://italy.usembassy.gov/pdf/other/

Alternative Fuels Data Center
URL:https://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/

Generate a list of Web sites that meet your needs at:
URL: https://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/resources/links.html

American Coalition for Ethanol
URL: https://www.ethanol.org/

American Gas Association
URL:https://www.aga.org/

American Methanol Institute
URL: https://www.methanol.org/

American Petroleum Institute
URL:https://api-ec.api.org

American Public Transit Association (APTA)
URL: https://www.apta.com/

CALSTART (Advanced Transportation Technologies EVs, NGVs, etc.)
URL: https://www.calstart.org/

Electric Auto Association
URL: https://www.eaaev.org/

Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA)
URL: https://www.electricdrive.org/

Energy & Environmental Research Center
URL: https://www.eerc.und.nodak.edu/

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (U.S. Department of Energy)
URL: https://www.eere.energy.gov/

EERE Information Center
URL:https://www1.eere.energy.gov/informationcenter/

Ethanol Promotion and Information Council
URL:https://www.drivingethanol.org/

Gas Technology Institute
URL: https://www.gastechnology.org/

Global Electric Motorcars, LLC
URL: https://www.gemcar.com/

Independent Petroleum Association of America
URL: https://www.ipaa.org/

INFORM, Inc.
URL: https://www.informinc.org/

International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles
URL: https://www.iangv.org/

Japan International Transport Institute
URL:https://www.japantransport.com/

Motor Industry Research Association
URL: https://www.mira.co.uk/

National Association of Fleet Administrators, Inc.
URL: https://www.nafa.org/

National Biodiesel Board
URL: https://www.biodiesel.org/

National Conference of State Legislatures
URL:https://www.ncsl.org/

National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
URL: https://www.e85fuel.com/index.php

National Hydrogen Association
URL: https://www.hydrogenassociation.org/

National Petroleum Council
URL: https://www.npc.org/

Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
URL: https://www.ngvc.org/

Natural Gas Vehicle Technology Forum
URL: https://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/ngvtf/index.html

Northeast Alternative Vehicle Consortium (NAVC)
URL: https://www.navc.org/

Propane Education and Research Council
URL: https://www.propanecouncil.org/

Renewable Fuels Association
URL: https://www.ethanolrfa.org/

Society of Automotive Engineers
URL: https://www.sae.org/

Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI)
URL: https://www.teriin.org/

Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
URL: https://trb.org/

See: TRB Publications
URL: https://www4.trb.org/trb/onlinepubs.nsf

See: Publication Series - TRB Special Reports
URL: https://trb.org/news/blurb_browse.asp?id=12

See: Publication Series - Transportation Research Record
URL: https://trb.org/news/blurb_browse.asp?id=25

United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR)
URL: https://www.uscar.org/

United States Department of Transportation
URL:https://www.dot.gov/

See: Search engine of the U.S. Department of Transportation
URL: https://search.bts.gov/ntl/?qp=site%3Abts.gov/

World Energy
URL: https://www.worldenergy.net/

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Headquarters
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590
Telephone: (202) 366-0123 and Toll-Free (888) 327-4236
URL: https://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/
See: Laws Administered by NHTSA
URL: https://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/Cfc%5Ftitle49/
Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Aug. 8, 2005; P.L. 109-58)
Also available at URL: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html, click on "Public and Private Laws."


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U.S. Department of Transportation
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590
Telephone: (800) 853-1351
Email: librarian@bts.gov
Email: answers@bts.gov
URL: https://ntl.bts.gov/
General reference and referral to transportation sources including statistics.


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Room 2200
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Telephone: (202) 366-0746
URL: https://dotlibrary.dot.gov/
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