Vote on retail fuel temperature compensation delayed

Feb 10, 2008

The National Conference on Weights and Measures unanimously decided to delay an official vote on retail fuel temperature compensation. The decision, made on Jan. 29, noted that there were too many unanswered questions to vote at the next annual conference.

The next formal voting on the issue will take place at the July 2009 meeting. NCWM is waiting on more information, including the results of a General Accounting Office and California Energy Commission study on the impact of automatic temperature compensation on consumers.

Bee-Line Transport operates a 60-truck regional fleet out of Houston, Texas. When we caught up with safety director James Jeter this week to recap the past year, the fleet was fresh off dealing with last week's torrential weather across Texas and other parts of the Southeast. 'It was almost a total shutdown,' he said. 'We got people home or to a place where they could ride it out. Everybody's safe -- no accidents, no problems. We were pretty worn, though. We spent hours on the phone and through messaging systems keeping up with everybody.'

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