Palmer Leasing Group - Indianapolis, IN 46219

Palmer Leasing is seeking an individual for the following: Leasing Division Office Manager with duties including but not limited to supervising office employees to ensure accurate and timely fulfillment of responsibilities, filing timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, permits, licensing, renewals, and other lease related duties as needed.

Duties would include Manages a variety of general office activities personally or through subordinates. Analyzes and organizes office operations and procedures such as bookkeeping, preparation of payrolls, personnel, information management, filing systems, and other clerical services.

Prepares composite reports for the guidance of management. Maximizes office productivity through proficient use of the following computer applications: Microsoft Office, DSI Dealer Software Inc., Accounting, Parts Service and Leasing Software.

Truck Leasing, Truck, Heavy Equipment or Car Dealership experience is prefered but not required. Please contact Jacob Nichols at for more information at 317-808-5073, or email at hr@palmertrucks.com.

We look forward to hearing from you, please indicate where you saw this posting.

Palmer Trucks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants are considered for employment without a regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected status. Palmer Trucks is a Drug Free Workplace.

Palmer Trucks is an Indiana/Ohio privately owned company specializing in providing top quality Kenworth trucks, parts and service to our Mid-west clients. With our 500 employees The Palmer Truck Group is committed to providing quality service and solutions to the transportation industry. These solutions include Kenworth Trucks (new and used), diesel, service, parts, financing, leasing, rental, vocational trucks, vocational parts, accessories and CNG Technology.

from showtimesdaily.com

March 5th, 2012

The Indiana Department of Transportation continues its march toward gaseous fueling, working with compressed natural gas and with propane, for which the infrastructure may be more economically established.

INDOT has converted 528 of its older vehicles to gasoline-propane bi-fuel, and fuels them at a network of more than 100 autogas facilities around the state. Conversions were performed by Impco Automotive (Booth 5465) in Union City, Ind.

More recently, Impco converted new 46 Chevrolet Silverado pickups to gasoline-propane bi-fuel for INDOT, says technical services division director Joe Rudolf.

Most recently, INDOT has secured $640,000 from the U.S. EPA and will be going to bid for 40 dedicated-propane vehicles, medium to heavy duty. The EPA grant will help offset the incremental cost of the conversions as it augments approximately $3.2 million from INDOT for the base vehicles.

“We’re not asking for the farm,” Rudolph told Fleets & Fuels last week. “We’re just asking for a fair amount.”

On the CNG side of gaseous fuels, INDOT operates 19 Kenworth dump trucks with 8.9-liter ISL G engines from Cummins Westport. Currently 16 of the trucks are here in Indianapolis – where they were on hand for snow-plow duty during the Super Bowl – and three are in Evansville. “That’s where the public CNG infrastructure exists, so that’s where the fleet exists,” Rudolph says.

Kenworth is at Booth 3039.

Full post HERE

From showtimesdaily.com

March 5th, 2012

A long-awaited, federally supported project using Indiana dairy-derived biomethane to fuel over-the-road trucks came to fruition here in Indiana last year. Kenworth, via Palmer Truck Leasing, has provided 42 Cummins Westport ISL G-powered Class 8 T440 trucks to take milk from the Fair Oaks Farms dairy south of Gary to processing plants in Indianapolis, Murphysboro, Tenn., and Winchester, Ky.

Clean Energy Fuels has built two compressed natural gas fueling stations to support the dedicated-CNG Kenworths. The first, adjacent to Interstate 65 by the dairy, opened this past September, the second, also on I-65, is in Sellersburg, Ind. just north of Louisville, and is opening now.

By mid-summer, the northern CNG station is expected to be fed directly by biomethane fuel made from the waste of Fair Oaks cows.

“The manure from about 10,000 cows goes into the digester that supplies the biogas for the CNG project,” says Mark Stoermann, Fair Oaks Dairy project boss.

Both stations are operating initially on conventional pipeline gas. Once the Flotech Greenlane (New Zealand) methane purification equipment is online, “We will be able to produce enough gas to power the fueling station here and replace the equivalent amount of gas to what we use in Sellersburg,” Stoermann told Fleets & Fuels last week.

The 42 Kenworth trucks are operated by Ruan Transportation Management Systems.

Kenworth is at Booth 3039. Cummins is at Booth 2101 and Westport Innovations is at Booth 5491. CNG fuel tank arrays for the Fair Oaks T440s were supplied by Agility Fuel Systems using cylinders from suppliers including Lincoln Composites (Booth 5767).

Full article can be found HERE

From Kenworth.com

CNG-Powered Kenworth W900S Mixers Help Chicago-based Ozinga Bros. Lower Fuel Costs and Emissions

Drivers Report CNG Trucks Provide Responsive Shifting and Plenty of Power


CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 2, 2012 — It’s been almost six years since Ozinga Ready Mix Concrete Inc. has replaced the mixer trucks working from its Chinatown Plant near downtown Chicago. So, after careful consideration of the business environment and changing regulations, company officials decided that Kenworth’s compressed natural gas-powered mixers were the best fit.



“We looked at what we wanted to accomplish — reduce our country’s dependence on foreign oil, improve our company’s environmental image by cleaning up emissions from our mixers and lower our fuel costs,” said Tim Ozinga, director of corporate communications for Ozinga Ready Mix Concrete. “Since city officials are trying to reduce emissions from trucks that operate in downtown Chicago, we thought placing all of our new CNG trucks in operation there would have the greatest impact.”

That’s why Ozinga bought 13 compressed natural gas-powered Kenworth W900S mixers and assigned them to its ready-mix concrete plant on South Lumber Street and West 22nd Place near the Dan Ryan Expressway. One of the fleet’s W900S mixers was recently featured in the Kenworth Truck Co. booth at this year’s World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas. The company has plans to install a time-fill fueling station at the Chinatown plant eventually as it replaces more of its diesel-powered mixers with new Kenworth CNG-powered units.

Read the full article here

One engine is installed in a Kenworth and the other in aFreightliner.

“The 12L CNG trucks are an important step forward for us as  we look toward more widespread use of natural gas as a fuel for our trucks,”  Jeff Shefchik, president of Paper Transport, said.  

The engines offer horsepower and torque equal to commonly  used Class 8 diesel engines, PTI said. The company said it expects the vehicles  to be used in higher weight applications and environments where hills are  common.

“The full use of CNG trucks had been somewhat limited by the  fact that the 9L engine was all that was available for a 100% CNG power unit,”  Shefchik said. “The 12L’s capability to handle steeper grades will be a nice  feature.”

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Aug 26, 2011 11:18 AM, By Charles E Wilson

On August 14, the first four truck-tractors in a 42-truck order were delivered to Fair Oaks Farms near Fair Oaks IN. Fueled with methane from the dairy farm, this milk-hauling fleet operation is being described as the largest transport-related renewable compressed natural gas (CNG) project in the United States.

Fair Oaks Farms and their partners expect to have the CNG fleet fully operational by the end of September, at the latest. Partners include Ruan Transportation Management Systems, PacLease, and Clean Energy Fuel Corp. In its September issue, Bulk Transporter will publish an exclusive in-depth profile on Fair Oaks Farms’ CNG fleet operation.

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Palmer Trucks is the proud supplier of CNG trucks to Fair Oaks Farms.  Palmer Trucks the leader of CNG trucks, maintenance and sales in the Midwest.  Stop by one of our 6 Indiana and Ohio Truck dealerships today to learn more.

$150 million gives natural gas infrastructure a boost

Jul 18, 2011 10:32 AM, By Brian Straight, managing editor fleetowner.com

The timing of the announcement dovetails with a bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives this spring that would provide significant incentive for the purchase of natural gas vehicles. The “New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions” Act (HR 1380), dubbed NAT GAS, is intended to provide financial benefits for users of natural gas as a vehicle fuel. This includes tax credits for the purchase of such vehicles, for retrofitting diesel or gasoline vehicles; for the purchase of natural gas; and for the building of fueling stations, including home refueling units.

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Palmer Trucks is proud to be on the cutting edge of CNG vehicles in the trucking industry.  Partnering with Cummins-Westport, Agility Fuel Systems, Clean Cities and Kenworth Trucks, Palmer Trucks is supported by the best in the trucking business.  With CNG truck customers of Fair Oaks Farms, Monarch Beverages and INDOT, Palmer Trucks is the most experienced and best equipped truck dealership for your CNG and alternate energy fleets.

2008 Kenworth W900 Tri-Axle w/ Dump Truck Bed

$89,500
 

Additional Equipment

R&S Dumpbody  Double Frame  Chrome Bumper  Visor  Chrome Exhaust  Dual Exhaust  Asphalt Lip  Air Gate  Air PTO  Tarp Roller  Coal Gate

To check availability call or visit us online or at our truck dealership today!

Kenworth is a leader in alternate energy in the heavy-duty trucking industry.  With several fleets of CNG vehicles on the road, Kenworth's reputation as The World's Best doesn't stop at diesel engines. 

With the heightened attention around Kenworth's CNG trucks, lets take a look at one of the many environmental benefits of CNG vs. Diesel. 

If you live in a big city, you are probably aware of the concern the US government has for vehicle emissions.  With CNG vehicles, there are virtually NO EMISSIONS! 

Diagram from http://www.cumminswestport.com/fuels/cng.php

Palmer Trucks' partnership with Fair Oaks Farms has received media attention from Showtimes Magazine.  The Kenworth Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) trucks Fair Oaks Farm has purchased from Palmer Trucks are quickly gaining national attention. 

The 42 Kenworth CNG trucks are not only purchased from Palmer Trucks (Kenworth of Indianapolis), they will be serviced by Palmer Trucks.  Kenworth of Indianapolis boasts 5 full-time CNG technicians who are trained specifically for servicing Cummins CNG engines. 

From showtimesdaily.com

‘Mooving Milk’ — Biomethane CNG in Indiana

MOOVING MILK WITH RENEWABLE CNG

Though the cows are black and white, there’s nothing but green when it comes to the innovation and sustainability that Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, Fair Oaks Farms, New Frontier Holdings, and the U.S. Department of Energy are proving by delivering milk down our highways in cow-manure-powered trucks.

Fair Oaks, IN. (June 14, 2011) — What do you get when you combine a

Midwest governor who is committed to finding real solutions to the nation’s problems, one of the most recognized and innovative dairies in the world, the nation’s top renewable energy technology providers, the support of U.S. Department of Energy, an industry leading logistics provider, and a lot of cow manure? You get the largest long-haul fleet powered by renewable energy in the country, delivering milk to processing plants in three Midwestern states.

With the unwavering support of Governor Mitch Daniels, Fair Oaks Farms has announced the development of a natural-gas-powered milk fleet that will reduce the use of diesel fuel by more than one and a half million gallons of diesel per year by using gas produced from dairy cattle waste. In a process called anaerobic digestion, microorganisms feed on cow manure and produce methane gas, which Fair Oaks Farms traps and processes with technology supplied by UTS Residual Processing using a proven water-based technology with minimal environmental impact. This gas will be piped directly to a fueling station in Fair Oaks for compression and distribution.

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For more information on Palmer Trucks' Kenworth CNG trucks, call us at (317)-247-8421 or visit us at any of our 6 Indiana and Ohio dealerships.  Visit our website to find the location nearest you.

Palmer Trucks is proud to be in partnership with Fair Oaks Farms in the use of Kenworth's Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) trucks.  Palmer Trucks is not only providing the trucks but will be servicing Fair Oaks Farms fleet of 42 CNG trucks. 

Link to article on Indy Star

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110620/LOCAL/106200310/Dairy-operation-turning-waste-into-natural-gas?odyssey=nav|head

Link to article on Utah's Deseret News

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700145189/Manure-to-power-Ind-dairy-farms-delivery-trucks.html

Link to article on Louisville's WDRB.com News

We are pleased to be a Platinum Sponsor of the Greater Indiana Clean Cites Coalition,
and a participant in next week's event in downtown Fort Wayne.





Greening Your Fleet

Tuesday, October 26, 2010
1pm - 8 pm
Wednesday, October 26 and 27, 2010
8:30 am - 2:00 pm

Courtyard By Marriott- Map

1150 South Harrison Street

Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Register for the conference today!

The 2010 Greening Your Fleet Conference, at the Courtyard by Marriott in Fort Wayne, Indiana offers a day and a half of keynote presentations, discussions, and demonstrations personalized for fleet professionals that want to integrate an environmentally-friendly component into their fleet operations.

Greening Your Fleet Agenda

Ethanol Blends and E85: In Indiana and Across the Nation

With over 144 E85 stations in Indiana, and more on the way, and the US EPA’s announcement, this week, that Growth Energy was successful in convincing them to approve the use of up to an E15 blend in 2007 model year vehicles, or newer. Bryan Christjansen, POET, and a Growth Energy Board Member, will discuss the benefits of this as well as other recent advancements in the Ethanol industry.

Right Sizing Your Fleet For the Job
Today, fleet managers are looking at every aspect of improving fuel economy in fleets from trip consolidations, to tire size, and just as important, utilizing the Right Vehicle for the Right Job, can also reduce operational costs. Larry Campbell, CPFP, and Fleet Director for the City of Ft. Wayne, will discuss ways to determine the best vehicle for the task and job performed, from 24/7 operations, to set route delivery trucks, to security vehicles.  You will rethink your whole fleet!

Compressed Natural Gas as a Vehicle Fuel
Compressed natural gas vehicles and infrastructure usage is expanding, across the nation, and Indiana is holding its own. By September, 2011, Indiana will boast I65 as a CNG corridor, with public sites at Fair Oaks, Indianapolis, and Sellersburg exits, making CNG a viable fleet application from Chicago to Kentucky! Here from infrastructure and vehicle technology providers on options you need to consider when looking at CNG as a transportation fuel and learn about CNG fleet projects underway in Indiana today as well as 2011 funding opportunities for project!

Hybrid, Plug-In, and Idle Reduction Vehicle Technologies:
The Future is Here If you want a plug-in E-vehicle, Plug-in hybrid or just want to reduce fuel usage in your current diesel vehicle, these presentations will give you a view into the aspects of each ones niche.

Understanding and Calculating your Fleet’s Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint, you hear the word from all aspects of life, in industry emissions circles, farm operations, event fleet operations, even grant applications ask for emissions offsets, as part of their application process and typically accounts for 20% of your score. Learn the latest CARB developed calculations, endorsed by EPA as founded Fleet Emission Footprint Calculation methods, and required for membership by some industry associations.
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Sessions are broken up into specific topics such as:
· USEPA 2015 fleet carbon footprint calculation tools
· Right sizing your fleet for the job it does
· OEM Alternative fuel and related technologies presentations
· Vehicle and related technologies displays, indoor and out
· Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Deployment Options
· Clean Start Program
· 2011 Alternative Fuel Project Funding Opportunities
· Biofuels Update

Mayor Tom Henry will be the keynote speaker during the evening reception. Greening Your Fleet is brought to you by the Greater Indiana Clean Cites Coalition, American Public Works Association - Indiana Chapter, and CountryMark.

On Day 1 of the conference, a cocktail and hot hors d’oeuvres reception will be served at the Fort Wayne Botanical Gardens. This networking reception is sponsored by CountryMark starting at 6 pm.

On Day 2, a breakfast & lunch will be served to all conference participants. During the scheduled break times refreshments and a light snack will be offered, courtesy of CountyMark.

Lodging accommodations are available at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel. A $99 room block is under the name; Greening Your Fleet. Please call 1-866-704-6163 to reserve your room today.

If you are interested in being a vendor please contact Cris Dorman, cris@greaterindiana.com.

Register for the conference today!

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