Penske Truck Leasing will sponsor, display thought leadership, and be an exhibitor at this year’s Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Southern California. It will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California, starting May 1. Penske is a Presenting Sponsor and will be in booth 1145.
Penske Truck Leasing is a transportation industry leader in the areas of spec’ing, operating and maintaining fleets of traditionally-fueled vehicles as well as alternative-fueled vehicles that includes natural gas, propane, electric and diesel-electric hybrids.
There are over 500 vehicles in the company’s alternative fuel fleet. In over 26 years, Penske has safely operated and maintained natural gas vehicles in excess of 75 million miles.
Penske’s alternative fuel vehicle experts will appear in three conference sessions:
- Dean Stapleton, senior manager of alternative fuels, Breakout Session 1.3: Status Update on Today’s Heavy-Duty Natural Gas Truck Market
- Russ Scaramastra, vice president of strategic initiatives, moderator, Breakout Session 4.2: Transcending Traditional Trends in Transit
- Drew Cullen, senior vice president fuels and facility services, Medium- and Heavy-Duty General Session panel: Focusing Freight on Efficiency
Penske Truck Leasing is an affiliate partner in the U.S. EPA SmartWay program and Penske Logistics is a partner in the trucking carrier and logistics categories. Penske Truck Leasing is also an affiliate partner in the Canada SmartWay Transport Partnership, which is administered by Natural Resources Canada.
Last week, the company collected its fifth consecutive EPA SmartWay Affiliate Challenge Award.
By Alen Beljin
Taking that first step to introducing natural gas vehicles (NGVs) into a company’s truck fleet is by no means an easy decision with myriad dynamics to analyze when taking that next step.
For each Penske customer that Cullen has assisted when making the decision to incorporate NGVs into its existing truck fleet, it comes down to differing factors, each weighted separately.
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