FRA HONORS BOLTON FOR TECHNICAL WRITING

Release: March 17, 2009

CONTACT: Neil Ward (301/838-9385)
nward@forestresources.org

Rockville, MD – The Forest Resources Association conferred its 2009 Technical Writing Award on Franklin Bolton, co-owner of B&B Companies of North Carolina, at FRA’s March 16 Annual Awards Luncheon in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Bolton authored the finest Technical Release FRA published during the previous year.

Bolton’s Technical Release, Truck and Trailer Weight Reduction Revisited, describes how his logging company has eliminated excess weight from its trucks, log trailers, and chip vans to boost payloads.

Bolton says that these weight reduction strategies have reduced the tare weight of its truck-trailer combination vehicles by 4,000 to 7,000 pounds.

Some of the strategies include using super-single tires and rims, lighter-weight trailers and landing gear, and lighter-weight engines, as well as only carrying enough fuel to make the wood deliveries before returning to B&B Companies’ refueling tank. These changes realize cost savings through better fuel efficiency and higher payloads.

Single copies of the winning publication are available at no charge from FRA at 301/838-9385. Requests should refer to stock number 07-R-29.

The Forest Resources Association Inc. is a nonprofit trade association concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of forest products and their transport from woods to mill. FRA represents wood consumers, independent logging contractors, and wood dealers, as well as businesses providing products and services to the forest resource-based industries.

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