At the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, Halifax County Schools purchased four new Blue Bird propane buses from Carter Machinery for Sydnor Jennings Elementary. Fleet Supervisor Keith McDowell tracked the cost of fuel and maintenance compared to the diesel buses they had operated in previous years. Here are his results.
As summer arrives, rising prices at the pump always seem to follow. Fluctuations in the cost of gas and diesel don’t just bite into our road trip plans, they make the United States feel vulnerable to forces that seem completely beyond our control.
Thanks to a recent purchase by Southwestern Jefferson County School Corp., students in the Hanover, Ind.-based school district can now ride to school in buses powered by propane autogas.
Setting a new clean air standard and fulfilling a goal to be the state’s leader in offering guests tour vehicles that promote sustainability, Travel Plaza Transportation, is converting its entire fleet to zero emission commercial tour buses by 2020.
CLEARWATER – Pinellas County schools are among four Tampa Bay area school districts that have switched their buses to propane autogas.
Student Transportation of America Inc., a subsidiary of Student Transportation Inc., will provide 49 buses for the next school year to the Canby School District near Portland, Ore. Forty-two of those buses will run on propane autogas.
It’s a propane baker’s dozen for Peapod in Chicago, as the online grocer is adding seven autogas-fueled delivery trucks to six already in place at its Lake Zurich facility in suburban Chicago.
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