Freightliner Trucks to Serve Owens Corning in Georgia
Pennsylvania-based Modern Transportation reports the deployment on April 18 of the first production trucks to be powered by the new 11.9-liter, dedicated-natural gas, spark-ignition ISX12 G engine by Cummins Westport. The new Freightliner Cascadia day cab vehicles will supply an Owens Corning roofing plant in Savannah with materials from Sanford, N.C.
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DoE & Execs at Green Truck Summit & Work Truck Show
The term “green fleet” will become just “fleet” over the next decade as sustainability becomes business as usual. “Sustainability and the green industry are here to stay,” says Lee Styslinger III, chairman and CEO of aerial lift specialist Altec.
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Trillium CNG for Fueling, More Stations as Fleet Expands
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay is adding 12 new long-haul CNG trucks to its fleet in Beloit, Wisc., to distribute product across the upper Midwest (Wisconsin, Illinois, and parts of Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota).
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Largest Placement Yet for Sanbag-Backed Fleet
The 302-outlet, Commerce, Calif.-based chain of 99 Cents Only Stores is converting 40 of its semi-trucks to compressed natural gas, using Freightliner tractors from Ryder System.
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Updates from 11 Leading Chassis Manufacturers
The National Truck Equipment Association will hold its New Model Truck Product Conference September 11-13 at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Mich.
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Freightliner Trucks gave word today that the Southeast U.S. trucker Saddle Creek has added 40 Freightliner Business Class M2 112 compressed natural gas tractors, doubling its fleet of Freightliner CNG trucks.
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A Freightliner Cascadia 113-inch BBC day cab tractor powered by the new Cummins Westport ISX12 G natural gas engine took off from ACT Expo Thursday, headed east on the manufacturer’s first-ever heavy duty U.S. crossing –fueled all the way by public-access CNG.
“We wanted to show the status of natural gas infrastructure,” Daimler Trucks marketing strategy GM David Hames said Wednesday. The truck will stop at roughly 700- to 750-mile intervals to fuel – “entirely on public fueling stations,” he said.
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With a Million Miles Logged, Firm Vows to ‘Quickly Accelerate’
Pure battery electric trucks operated by PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division “have charged their way to a million miles,” the company said May 10, noting that 176 vehicles from Smith Electric Vehicles have eliminated the need for approximately 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel – and will be augmented by 100 Newton Series 2000 Smith EVs this taking the all-electric fleet to more than 280 units.
Frito-Lay also operates Daimler Freightliner M2-chassis battery trucks from California’s Electric Vehicles International (the EVI-MD; F&F, March 26).
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The Cascadia 113 tractor from Freightliner Trucks will be available next year with the new Cummins Westport ISX12 G dedicated-natural gas engine as a factory-installed option.
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Clean vehicles too expensive because there are so few of them? “We’re going to make them cheaper so you can deploy more,” U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said as he prepared to tour the still-building Work Truck Show in Indianapolis after keynoting the NTEA-Calstart Green Truck Summit one week ago.
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