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Mar 12, 2013

TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA

* Oklahoma - Love’s to buy 50 Freightliner Trucks with CNG engines

(Photo: Love’s Travel Stops) 
Oklahoma City,UK,USA -Transport Topics -11 March 2013: -- Love’s Travel Stops is buying 50 new Freightliner Cascadia trucks with compressed natural gas engines for its fleet of fuel haulers, Freightliner said Monday... The trucks will be equipped with Cummins Westport 12-liter heavy-duty natural gas engines and, Allison 4000HS transmissions and will have 90 diesel-gallon equivalent CNG fuel tanks, Freightliner said...   The vehicles will operate under Love’s sister company Gemini Transport’s banner, the Oklahoma City, truck stop operator said. Gemini has been testing the 12-liter CNG engine in a Freightliner fuel truck since September...


* Florida - Ryder leases 23 Nat Gas tractors to La. company 

(Photo: Two Ryder's natural gas heavy duty tractors--liquefied natural gas (left) and compressed natural gas (right))
Miami,FLO,USA -Transport Topics -11 March 2013: -- Ryder System said Eagle Distributing in Louisiana signed a deal to lease 23 compressed natural gas tractors... The deal replaces almost all of Eagle’s existing diesel-powered delivery fleet, and Ryder said it is the first natural gas lease it has signed in Louisiana... Eagle, an Anheuser-Busch distributor, said it made the switch as part of initiative to control fuel costs and reduce its carbon footprint... The distributor said it also is exploring plans to build a natural gas fueling station near its headquarters in Shreveport...

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