Continuing to pave the way in transitioning trucking fleets from diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG), AMP Americas, Chicago, signed a deal with dairy cooperatives Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), Kansas City, Mo., and Select Milk Producers, Artesia, N.D., to convert a portion of their diesel needs to CNG.
Under the agreement, AMP-Trillium, the joint venture between AMP Americas and Trillium CNG, will build seven public fueling stations between October and early 2014 and lease new CNG trucks that will travel more than 13.2 million miles per year, servicing routes throughout Texas. The stations, which will be built in Waco, Amarillo, Harrold, Sweetwater, Weatherford, Kerrville and Midland, Texas, will initially fuel 40 new Class-8 Kenworth and Peterbilt CNG sleeper trucks, a number that will double over the course of the agreement.