After a year of planning and with the support of Mayor Dwight C. Jones, Virginia Clean Cities and the Department of Public Utilities, the City of Richmond has adopted the use of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to fuel their refuse trucks.
The city’s previous fleet of 36 diesel-fueled refuse trucks is now reduced to 25 CNG-fueled vehicles, provided by McNeilus Companies, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company headquartered in Dodge Center, MN.
The CNG fueling station located at 3502-3506 North Hopkins Road houses the entire new fleet, eliminating trips required for refueling of the previous diesel fleet.
The trucks are larger than the previous ones and were sized so that the Department Public Works could go from five-day-a-week routes to four-day-a-week routes, saving on labor costs and fuel costs.
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