Budweiser Puts Its Diesel Trucks Out To Pasture, Switches To Natural Gas

50,000 lbs of beer in the trailers?

 

Yeah, lol that's shocking to you?

 

I think UPS went to Natural Gas. The article says Natural Gas supplies are surging? So that Natural Gas shortage last winter here in Wis. was a crock?. 50K maybe with a day cab, but not in a large car. I used to haul Pabst out of Milwaukee, and they wanted us to haul 50K in a container. With my Pete (below) and a container I was 34K empty. We had to plead with them to knock 2 pallets off, and I was still at 80K, with no chance of getting the axles right. Went around the scales every time I had a beer load going to Chicago rail yards.

 

Most I could get in a trailer was about 40-44....depending on the tractor.

 

Alot of Common Carriers haul 48K+ loads of Water out of Maine....

You could probably get 52K in a Daycab with a lightweight trailer

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4231754]I think UPS went to Natural Gas. The article says Natural Gas supplies are surging? So that Natural Gas shortage last winter here in Wis. was a crock?. 50K maybe with a day cab, but not in a large car. I used to haul Pabst out of Milwaukee, and they wanted us to haul 50K in a container. With my Pete (below) and a container I was 34K empty. We had to plead with them to knock 2 pallets off, and I was still at 80K, with no chance of getting the axles right. Went around the scales every time I had a beer load going to Chicago rail yards.[/QUOTE]

we have plenty of natural gas , last winter they ran low on LP or liquid propane, big difference.

 

The bigger the headline, the more likely it is for public relations, not really the case. Budweiser wants the average person to think the are "going green". But according to an article in the Wall Street Journal about a week ago, the whole natural gas truck thing is a huge bust. Up to $50k for the natural gas option, takes at least 5 years to get a return on investment between price of diesel and natural gas. So few companies ordered Cummins/Westport gas engines in larger 14 litre size that they discontinued production. Some applications make sense, but don't look formore than 5% market share anytime soon. And what will kill it for sure is when the government stops subsidizing the purchases thru tax credits, and or starts charging road tax on natural gas

 

I'm not sure how it is in the states but the guys I've seen fueling in Alberta at a flying j were wearing a full protective suit with face shields I was parked there watching for 25 to 30 minutes and he still wasn't finished fueling can you imagine the lineups if cng caught on... It's just a fad look at me I'm green UNTIL you charge me road taxes ... Only way it goes mainstream is if they manipulate diesel prices to a very high rate