UPS To Add 306 New 'Green' Vehicles

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - United Parcel Service Inc. knows brown. But on Monday, it further burnished its "green" side with plans to add 306 alternative-fuel trucks to its fleet and use biodiesel at its air hub in Kentucky.

The delivery company said it ordered 167 delivery trucks fueled by compressed natural gas and will receive 139 others powered by propane. The new trucks will be the first of their type to be built from scratch for use with alternative fuel. Other UPS compressed natural gas and propane trucks now in service were converted from conventional vehicles in the 1980s.

The new natural gas trucks will be deployed in Dallas and Atlanta, and in Los Angeles and three other California cities. About 800 vehicles using the fuel are already in operation in the U.S.

The propane trucks are destined for Canada and Mexico, where 600 such vehicles are already being used.

CNN Money.Com, Oct. 8, 2007