Package delivery company United Parcel Service (UPS) has once again shown its green intentions and credentials by deploying yet more low emission vehicles.

Over one-hundred and sixty of UPS’s Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), low  emission delivery vehicles have been deployed by the company to five United States cities.  The roads of Dallas, Atlanta, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Ontario, San Ramon and Fresno will all now see the low emission vehicles, the vehicles reducing the company’s carbon footprint whilst at the same time fulfilling UPS’s business obligations.

The director of vehicle of engineering at UPS Robert Hall said regarding the deployment of the new vehicles said that the company “has deployed alternative fuel vehicles for more than 70 years and this CNG deployment is one more step towards the ‘greening’ of the UPS fleet.” Hall then went on to add that “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.”

UPS reports that the CNG truck bodies are identical externally to the signature-brown trucks that now comprise the UPS fleet, however the CNG vehicles would be marked as such. The trucks are expected to reduce emissions by 20 percent and improve fuel economy by 10 percent compared to the cleanest diesel engines available today.  The company operates the transportation industry’s largest private fleet of alternative fuel vehicles, some 1,629 trucks.

In addition to deploying greener vehicles within the United States, the company has also deployed deployed Compressed Natural Gas, Liquefied Natural Gas, propane, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, Brazil and the United Kingdom.

Source: Business Wire and United Parcel Service

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