Heavy Duty Trucking, November 2018

The City of Long Beach set up a Battery Electric Vehicle Task Force and is transitioning as many city vehicles as possible to electric HDT NOVEMBER 2018 52 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM dias Over the past fiscal year through June 30 it improved overall fleet fuel economy to 730 up from 704 Eleven drivers have achieved average mpg of 81 and above so far in 2018 and one of them hit 93 mpg recently Fuel saving specs include automated transmissions tractor skirting APUs Trailers feature skirting or under tray aero systems and low rolling resistance tires Every time a truck is brought in for service an engine download is performed and reviewed one on one with the driver in an effort to improve upon current driving habits Drivers are also eligible for quarterly bonuses based on fuel economy medium duty propane trucks It also employs strategies such as low rolling resistance tires improved aerodynamic design on trucks and trailers synthetic fluids engine downsizing and idle shutdown FLTI also uses GPS telematics systems to optimize performance with scorecards for idling route optimization fuel economy speeding and harsh braking acceleration FTC Transportation Oklahoma City Oklahoma FTC may be small but it thinks big when it comes to fuel economy in its 31 truck forhire fleet of 2015 2019 Freightliner Cascawith Cummins Westports near zero emission engines which achieved at least a 90 NOx reduction over the current federal heavyduty on road engine standard These nearzero emissions engines are powered by Redeem Clean Energys renewable natural gas The company says it has made the largest investment in near zero emissions technology within the U S concrete industry City of Long Beach Long Beach California The City of Long Beach Fleet has an aggressive Green Fleet Program and is currently focusing on electric vehicles A Battery Electric Vehicle Task Force founded in 2017 in 2018 formalized a BEV policy to guide the transition of all possible city vehicles to electric It will be the first municipality in the country to get XLs new hybrid pickup trucks and recently hosted an event to educate city employees about electric vehicles Natural gas is still on tap as well and Long Beach recently received the first of five CNG hybrid aerial trucks In 2017 it opened an on site 39M time fill CNG station which fuels up to 100 heavy duty vehicles The city is transitioning its refuse and street sweeping fleet entirely to CNG and it says it had the first municipal refuse truck in the nation with the Cummins ISL G Near Zero engine In the works is a comprehensive Green Fleet Policy covering all aspects of building and maintaining a green fleet Frito Lay Transportation Plano Texas This PepsiCo subsidiary runs nearly 17400 light medium and heavy duty vehicles Among those are 618 heavy duty natural gas powered trucks as well as 144 battery electric medium duty trucks and 118 Electric natural gas propane and fuel efficient diesel trucks are all part of Frito Lays fleet Over the past year FTC Transportation improved overall fleet fuel economy from 704 to 730 with 11 drivers even achieving average mpg of 81 and above and one driver hitting 93 mpg G D Integrated is a big biodiesel booster and recently worked with the Illinois Soybean Association on a video about its benefits