The City of Asheville, N.C. cut its carbon footprint by 4.5% from the prior year largely due to switching from B-5 to B-20 biodiesel for its city and transit vehicles.
Read More →The City of Milwaukee, Wis., has passed a resolution to allow marketing partnerships with private companies and non-profit organizations, including a plan to sell advertising on fleet vehicles.
Read More →The agency hopes to include more patrol officers in the program, which now provides take-home vehicles to supervisors, detectives, community resource officers, and forensic service technicians.
Read More →Four Charlotte, N.C., firefighters were injured May 8 when their fire truck flipped over on a residential street while responding to a fire.
Read More →City of San Bernardino, Calif., Mayor Patrick Morris wants to contract out City services, including police, fire, public works, community development, and parks and rec. This would reduce the workforce by 80% and reduce the number of replacement vehicles the City needs to buy.
Read More →The City of Buffalo, N.Y., has purchased 10 new firefighting vehicles, including a rehab/mass casualty incident vehicle, one EMS response vehicle, five command response vehicles, an urban search and rescue vehicle, and two Segways.
Read More →The City of Albuquerque, N.M. has saved more than $1.4 million dollars in fleet fuel costs via a hedging program that began in 2011. GF spoke City officials about the program and how the City set it up.
Read More →The City of Newark, N.J. is purchasing five new sanitation trucks fueled by compressed natural gas (CNG) as part of its goal to convert its entire sanitation truck fleet to this alternative fuel.
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The Cities of San Jose, Campbell, and Mill Valley, and the Town of Los Gatos secured the i-MiEVs under highly favorable lease terms, removing the up-front cost barrier and risk of traditional vehicle procurement.
Read More →The refuse fleet will be fueled at a new CNG fueling station built and maintained by Clean Energy, which officially opened June 5.
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