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SCR Group Expects DEF to Be Available at 2,800 Sites
By Frederick Kiel, Staff Reporter
This story appears in the Jan. 4 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today.
Diesel exhaust fluid, the additive that most 2010 trucks will need to run, will be available at about 2,800 locations in the United States and Canada by January, ramping up to more than 5,000 by the end of the year, a spokeswoman for the North American SCR Stakeholders Group said.
DEF, a mixture of urea and demineralized water, will be carried in tanks on trucks that use selective catalytic reduction to meet federal emission standards that go into effect for diesel engines built after Jan. 1, 2010. Only International trucks will not need DEF.
“The bulk of DEF supply is being delivered to [original equipment manufacturer] dealers and distributors and to at least two truck stop chains,” Kim Doran, spokeswoman for the North American SCR Stakeholder Group, told Transport Topics.
“SCR OEMs, including Volvo, Mack, Cummins, Freightliner
, Detroit Diesel and Western Star dealers and distributors will have DEF and will be ready to go by January 2010,” Doran said.
Representatives of those companies confirmed to TT that all of their dealers and repair locations will have DEF by January.
Doran said that Pilot Travel Centers and Travel Centers of America/Petro will offer DEF at all of their locations, nearly 800 combined.
“We already are offering DEF at all 310 of our facilities in one-gallon and 2½-gallon containers,” Bill Mulligan, Pilot’s vice president of development, told TT. “We also already sell it from fuel islands at 25 of our truck stops.”
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