UPS Deploys 167 Compressed Natural Gas Trucks
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA 
on 04. 2.08
UPS recently unleashed 168 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) delivery vehicles onto the streets of Texas, Georgia, and California. The delivery company has been buffing up its environmental record these past few year: It shifted to dry washing its trucks in Georgia, spent $600 million on improving the efficiency of its operations, and outfitted some of their vehicles with a newfangled "hydraulic hybrid" propulsion system.
Of the 167 new CNG trucks, part of UPS's global alternative fuel fleet, 25 have been deployed in Dallas, 42 in Atlanta, and the remaining 100 in five California cities: 30 to Sacramento, 14 to Los Angeles, five to Ontario, 10 to San Ramon, and 41 to Fresno.
More than 800 CNG vehicles are already in use by UPS in the Untied States. While previous CNG trucks were converted from gasoline and diesel vehicles in the 1980s to run on alternative fuels, these new vehicles are manufactured explicitly for alternative-fuel use. They're expected to reduce emissions by 20 percent, and improve fuel economy by 10 percent, compared with the cleanest diesel engines you can get today. ::CSRWire
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If everybody does the little things, the world will be an even better place and we won't have to worry about the end of the world!!
How about getting rid of those huge trucks first? They have giant trucks delivering one thing to one house at a time, and it's just unnecessary.
Its about time, there is a local company that delivers food though catalog and internet called "Schwanns". And everytime they make a delivery to my home I always go out and look at the truck. Its awsome to see a full size comercial vehicle running on propane. Well.... its still poluting to an exten.
WOW. Well, maybe if you convinced people to stop ordering things, things wouldn't need to be shipped in big trucks. Or maybe, we could just teleport stuff. Much more feasible. Or does it have bad emissions???
Way to go UPS. I also want to applaud your solor voltaic commandment as well. When I buy something that needs to be delivered; I hope it is by UPS.