Friday, June 28, 2013

Penske Truck Leasing adds 100 natural gas vehicles to their fleet

Penske Truck Leasing has ordered 100 compressed natural gas Freightliner Cascadia tractors equipped with Cummins Westport 12-liter engines, according to a company statement, and estimates it will have more than 200 natural gas tractors for customer use by the end of 2013.

"Many full-service truck leasing customers continue to evaluate using natural gas vehicles within their truck fleets while others are quickly adopting the use of NGVs to meet their sustainability goals," said Penske Truck Leasing's Art Vallely, executive vice president of operations. "We're encouraged by the interest we are seeing from customers with regard to NGVs and we are fully capable of assisting any fleet with their natural gas powered truck needs."

Penske, winner of a 2013 Smartway Affiliate Challenge Award from the EPA, also announced they will provide commercial truck fleet maintenance services for 22 Ford 2013 E-450 liquefied petroleum gas-powered bread delivery trucks owned by Alpha Baking Company, a national bakery products distributor.

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