According to the study conducted by the Canadian Trucking Alliance-Natural Resources Canada, longer trucks produce lesser harmful emissions and even help in improving highway safety.

It has been discovered that the use of longer combination vehicles such as turnpike doubles and single can actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve highway safety.

The study has also showed that turnpike doubles are also two to three times safer compared to the overall tractor-trailer fleet that travels on Ontario’s multi-lane highways when measured by kilometers traveled per vehicle. The turnpike doubles was also found out to save an average of 28.8 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers traveled compared to a single-trailer configurations which records 55 percent saving.

Aside from that turnpike doubles could also reduce the number of trucks for sale on the road by six to ten percent basing on the study.

The reduced emissions resulting from longer trucks, combined with new eco-friendly engines, better quality truck part components that are now being used together with ultra-low-sulphur diesel fuel, will ensure that “by the time will have almost an emission-free trucks like hummer trucks, ford trucks, volvo trucks etc.”

The alliance’s study further shows that approximately 900 million kilometers of truck travel would be saved annually by promoting the use of turnpike doubles, similarly 260 million liters of fuel will also be saved and 730 kilotons of greenhouse gases will be avoided.