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Idle threat

Fuel prices, global warming heat up hunt for better systems to help power big rigs

By Jeffrey Krasner
Globe Staff / June 5, 2006

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It's a sound you'll encounter at any truck stop if you pull off the highway for a late-night fill-up: the growling of row upon row of idling big rigs. (Full article: 856 words)

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