Matheson Trucking Focuses on Clean Energy with 37 CNG/LNG Tractors

Matheson Trucking, Inc., a U.S. freight company and contracted provider to United States Postal Service,

has added 37 natural gas powered tractors to its fleet as part of a companywide clean energy expansion

program designed to improve air quality, lower greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and to decrease diesel

fuel consumption on routes served by the Matheson Postal Services Division.

“With annual fleet distances driven totaling nearly 36 million miles, combining peak and non-peak times,

we continue to search for ways to reduce our carbon footprint and GHG emissions to enhance the

environment,” according to Debra White, vice president, Information Technology and Fleet

Maintenance for Matheson Trucking, Inc. “We’re not doing this just to meet EPA clean air and state

emissions standards, it’s the right thing to do.”

The new CNG Kenworth T680 tractors will serve Matheson Postal Services Division’s routes for

transporting U.S. Mail from Boise, Seattle and Salt Lake City. The company has already deployed 17 CNG

Kenworth T680’s in Boise, ID. and is in the process of taking delivery of eight additional CNG T680

sleeper cabs for its Los Angeles to Seattle runs.

The deployed CNG tractors include five, three-axle sleepers; 10, three-axle day cabs, and two, single-axle

day cabs. These tractors pull a mix of trailers in Boise, with most in the 53-foot long category, used to

transport U.S. Postal Service mail along designated routes.

“We plan to increase our inventory of green CNG tractors in the fleet wherever it is practical and cost

effective to do so, and while diesel may still have an edge on long-haul routes, Matheson wants to move

in a positive, responsible direction by becoming less dependent on fossil fuel,” said Joshua Matheson,

vice president of operations.

Kenworth LNG-powered T880 day-cab tractors will be used to transport U.S. Mail by Matheson Postal

Services Division.

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