UPS expands ¡°green fleet¡±

UPS is adding 306 alternative fuel vehicles to its "green fleet" by taking delivery of 139 new propane delivery trucks and placing an order for 167 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) delivery trucks in North America.

(10/9/2007)

The propane vehicles will join almost 600 propane trucks already operating in Canada and Mexico.

The CNG trucks will be deployed early next year in Dallas (Texas), Atlanta (Georgia), and Los Angeles, Ontario, San Ramon and Fresno (California). They will join more than 800 such vehicles already in use in the US.

The company has also launched an initiative to use biodiesel fuel in its ground support vehicles at the UPS Worldport® air hub in Louisville. This initiative has the support of a $515,000 federal grant, which is helping offset some of the cost of building a fuel infrastructure at the airport. The infrastructure will provide a 5% biodiesel blend of fuel to run 366 ground support vehicles starting early next year.

UPS's global alternative-fuel fleet now stands at 1,629 vehicles - the largest such private fleet in the transportation industry - and includes CNG, LNG, propane and electric and hybrid electric vehicles.