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Acknowledgements
The preparation of this report is based on work funded by the State of Texas through a grant
from the Texas Environmental Research Consortium with funding provided by the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality.
The Michelin Americas Research and Development Corporation and the Truck Tire Marketing
Group at Michelin North America provided material support in the form of tire sizing and
selection and two complete sets of tires for the test trucks.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided the aluminum wide-single wheels at
no cost for testing. The wheels had been formerly used for the EPA SmartWay Transport
Partnership Program conducted from October 2005 to April 2006.
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