UPS
UPS Deploys 300 CNG Trucks, Now Totals 800 in Service
Market Developments
USA, Atlanta
UPS has announced the deployment of 300 new delivery trucks powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) to seven cities in Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma and California. The CNG vehicles, part of an order placed last May (see NGV Global article), will allow UPS to further reduce its dependence on traditional fossil fuels like gasoline and diesel and lower its carbon footprint. UPS already operates the largest private fleet of alternative fuel vehicles in its industry - 1,819 in total with these additions.
The new CNG trucks have been deployed over the past month to Denver (43); Atlanta (46); Oklahoma City (100), and four cities in California: Sacramento (21), San Ramon (63), Los Angeles (9) and Ontario (18). All are now in service.
Robert Hall, UPS's director of vehicle engineering, says "Continuing to add CNG delivery trucks to our fleet is a sustainable choice because natural gas is a cost effective, clean-burning and readily available fuel." Hall added, "The company plans to continue to expand its 'green fleet' and to focus deployments in areas with air quality challenges."
The 300 trucks deployed over the past month were built from scratch as CNG vehicles. They join more than 800 CNG vehicles already in use by UPS worldwide.
The CNG trucks are expected to yield a 20 percent emissions reduction over the cleanest diesel engines available in the market today.
For its alternative fuel fleet, UPS has deployed CNG, Liquefied Natural Gas, propane, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, Brazil, Chile, Korea and the United Kingdom. Just since 2000, the company's "green fleet" has traveled 144 million miles.
Market Developments
USA, Atlanta
UPS has announced the deployment of 300 new delivery trucks powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) to seven cities in Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma and California. The CNG vehicles, part of an order placed last May (see NGV Global article), will allow UPS to further reduce its dependence on traditional fossil fuels like gasoline and diesel and lower its carbon footprint. UPS already operates the largest private fleet of alternative fuel vehicles in its industry - 1,819 in total with these additions.
The new CNG trucks have been deployed over the past month to Denver (43); Atlanta (46); Oklahoma City (100), and four cities in California: Sacramento (21), San Ramon (63), Los Angeles (9) and Ontario (18). All are now in service.
Robert Hall, UPS's director of vehicle engineering, says "Continuing to add CNG delivery trucks to our fleet is a sustainable choice because natural gas is a cost effective, clean-burning and readily available fuel." Hall added, "The company plans to continue to expand its 'green fleet' and to focus deployments in areas with air quality challenges."
The 300 trucks deployed over the past month were built from scratch as CNG vehicles. They join more than 800 CNG vehicles already in use by UPS worldwide.
The CNG trucks are expected to yield a 20 percent emissions reduction over the cleanest diesel engines available in the market today.
For its alternative fuel fleet, UPS has deployed CNG, Liquefied Natural Gas, propane, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, Brazil, Chile, Korea and the United Kingdom. Just since 2000, the company's "green fleet" has traveled 144 million miles.
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Permalink Reply by Cathaus on -
I was just thinking the same thing KB. I am pretty much fedup with fedex anyway!
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Permalink Reply by sesport on
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Mrs. C - Whatever happened to the new guys with the "yeller" trucks? What were they ... DHL ... DCS ... HDTV ... LMNOP ? Can't remember.
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Permalink Reply by Cathaus on
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DHL
One of their drivers of an eighteen wheeler backed into me and nearly totaled my vehichle. I jess hate DHL, hate 'em bad!
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Permalink Reply by Cathaus on
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DHL has great insurance. They took care of everything down to making the appointment with Yokem's body shop. Too bad the Tundra never drove the same again. The adjuster couldn't believe that I wasn't hurt and wouldn't file a claim for pain and suffering. She kept telling me to seek medical care just in case. It scared me to death but no injury. I believe what comes around goes around.
I failed my driver's test when I was a teenager. Scored very high on the written test and did fine through all of the driving. The parallel parking gave me trouble. So much so that I backed into the drivers license building and cracked the mortar in the brick! Needless to say, I left there with a learner's permit instead of the real deal!
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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on -
I don't know if I could parallel park a VW van on a flat surface. Of course I havn't driven a stick in 10 years.
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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on
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Dangerous vehicle, that what Harry Chapin killed.
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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on
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The left the states to the big boys and are going to concentrate overseas, this was announced a couple of months ago.
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Permalink Reply by BirdDawg, plain ole' idiot on
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Hey Mr. Buck,
You always come up with some neat stuff.
Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on
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I have tore into several trucks that have run on butane and you could have eaten off the inside or downside of the manifold.
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