PRESS RELEASE  - ancaster,  July 2005:                      

The presentation of cheques for $5,000.00 to the three local winners of the random draws in the Espar/NRCan rebate bonus incentive program took place July 2005

This program ran for the period of one year and was open to all customers across Canada who purchased the Espar brand of heater system.  All winners participated in this draw, first by purchasing an Espar Heating System, and secondly by choosing to have their hours downloaded free of charge by their local dealer Simplicity Air Ltd.

The winners include:

Neil & Jay Fair of Fairway Transport, Ancaster, ON

Mark Hewings of Hewings Transportation Inc., Brantford, ON

Fred Mattice of LF Mattice Trucking, Hagersville, ON

Having outfitted their fleet of transports with Espar Independent Vehicle Heating & Cooling Systems to eliminate costly and pollution causing off-road idling has proven to be a good investment for three Southern Ontario firms.

As well it has been a winning venture for the supplier of the units, Simplicity Air Ltd. of Ancaster operated by owners Brian & Carolyn Bassindale who were instrumental in working both with Espar Heater Systems and Natural Resource Canada in securing valuable information for the Natural Resource Fleetsmart Rebate program.  Because of their efforts to create awareness with the anti-idling technologies and because they chose to work with their customers free of charge Simplicity Air Ltd. was also chosen in a random draw of dealers that participated in this program.  Their participation and commitment to work within the parameters of the outlined program clearly made a difference. 

As outlined in the Espar literature, leaving a transport (or for that matter, any motor vehicle) idling for prolonged periods to maintain cab heating and/or cooling for driver comfort while waiting in line-ups to load and/or unload and during rest periods, can prove to be very costly.  Statistics show that not only does prolonged idling eat up costly fuel, it also harms engines to the extent that rebuilds are a premature requirement; the efficiency of lubricating oil is greatly reduced, and idling, or course, contributes to needless air pollution.

The Federal Government’s allocation of a 1.6 billion rebate program (up to $350.00 per unit) for installation of idle reduction devices on heavy trucks and buses has enabled the local Espar dealer Simplicity Air Ltd. to successfully encourage fleet operators to invest in the new “win/win” technology.  Actually, with Simplicity Air Ltd. and three of their customers having been drawn in the Espar promotion, perhaps the term could be “Win, Win, Win” for not only have these enterprises each won a $5,000.00 prize, the environment will be an ongoing winner too!

Congratulations to Mark Hewings, Neil & Jay Fair, Fred Mattice and Brian & Carolyn Bassindale on having good fortune in this draw; and kudos to all who have been installing this new technology on their heavy equipment units.

For more information on this program please visit the Espar website www.espar.com to download a Rebate form in .pdf format

Neil & Jay Fair
         Fairway Transport          Ancaster, ON

Mark Hewings
Hewings Transportaion Inc.      Brantford, ON

Fred Mattice
      L.F. Mattice Trucking       Hagersville, ON