Buying a truck

It's more available than most people think. However, it is nowhere near as available a diesel. Even for vague interest, go to http://cnglngstations.com/ and you can see both CNG (Compress Natural Gas) and LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) fueling stations. There are more fueling opportunities than just those, but it gives you a rough idea. That type of fuel is certainly coming. It is the chicken-and-the-egg theory. Which comes first? Carriers don't want them because of the limited amount of fueling opportunities and fueling stations don't want to spend the money building the stations without a demand for it.

I am aware of a company who is currently about 20% into a full fleet conversion (read: trading out diesel trucks for LNG trucks, not retro-fitting current diesel trucks) and they run pretty much the eastern half of the US. By the end of 2016, they will be 100% LNG. Certainly not local and the drivers don't get home every few days.

The bad thing about those trucks, when those drivers run out of gas, you call the wrecker, not the nearest T/A, Pilot, Loves, etc so they can send their mechanic with a service truck to bring you some fuel. Oh no. You have to get towed to a fueling location. Interesting little observation about the LNG trucks: they do not have a traditional fuel gauge that read FULL, HALF, EMPTY, etc. It is a pressure gauge, similar to your air pressure gauges.

Again, due to a lack of demand for them, there is also a lack of supply for them. Combine that with the new technology and you see the cost of the LNG trucks being considerably more expensive than a diesel truck.

Hope this helps, or is at the very least, informative.