WasteCon 2012 August 14, 2012
Clean Truck News at WasteCon Enter Questar Fueling Outfit with deep experience in Utah makes WasteCon debut, wants to build natural gas fueling stations across America. —Page 4
Biomethane Lives! Clean Energy and customers including Republic Services and Waste Management soldier on. —Pages 4 & 14
Autocar-Parker Hydraulic Hybrid Dick Wilde, director of public works for Seymour, Ind. at far left with Seymour sanitation supervisor John Edwards – and The Men Who Haul with the Hybrid: Tim Peacock, Rick Ketcham, Daniel Croquart, Wayne Stradley, Chad Dixon, and Joe Wilson. Their new Autocar E3 with RunWise brand series hydraulic hybrid drivetrain by Parker Hannifin is being shown by Autocar at Booth 817. —See Pages 8-9
Republic Services CNG ‘It’s the right thing to do,’ company says of CNG. And the fuel is far cheaper than diesel. —Page 6
Mansfield Energy North Carolina’s Waste Industries is a client. Mansfield promotes ‘CNG Express’ for fleets not quite ready to invest in natural gas fueling infrastructure. —Page 7
Bauer Repositions Itself Compressor specialist offers enhanced CNG fueling packages, including a new, water-cooled, unit dubbed C52. —Page 12
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Crane Carrier’s BAE Hybrid Electric Crane Carrier (Booth 1517) is conducting working trials around the country of an LET2 truck with a heavy-duty parallel hybrid electric drivetrain from BAE Systems. The truck first was tested with Los Angeles-area carters, before going to Seattle this summer and elsewhere in the U.S. The real-world refuse collectors are “working with us to validate the fuel efficiency claims,” says Crane’s Glenn Pochocki. According to BAE, fuel economy improvements could amount to 30%. The truck has a new parallel version of BAE’s HybriDrive system. The series version powers more than 3,800 transit buses worldwide. BAE uses power-dense Remy motors and an off-the-shelf Caterpillar CX transmission that allows the drive to be installed in a wide range of heavy duty vehicles.
Glenn Pochocki of Crane Carrier’s is in the driver’s seat with Larry Fuehrer and John Hroncich of drive supplier BAE Systems.
The partners are targeting commercial launch in mid-2013 with production commencing in the fall for the 2014 model year.
Natural Gas Trash Trucks Are on a Roll Just how important to the waste industry is natural gas fueling? After a recent informal poll of trash truck manufacturers, “The lowest number we heard was 50% of
2012 production would be natural gas,” says Rich Kolodziej, president of NGVAmerica. “One manufacturer said 70%,” Kolodziej told ShowTimes.
Kolodziej is speaking at the plenary session here this afternoon. See Page 10 for further detail about NGVAmerica’s natural gas vehicles outreach activities.