Palmer Trucks is pleased to announce the opening of a new heavy duty truck dealership, Kenworth of Fremont. It will provide parts and service for the heavy and medium duty truck industry in addition to bus and trailer markets. Kenworth of Fremont is positioned in Northeast Indiana near the intersection of I-69 and Indiana Toll Road 80-90. The dealership will staff ten parts and service professionals, offering new job growth to the area. "Kenworth of Fremont is more than a just a convenient location. We will serve with experienced parts personnel, qualified technicians, and an overall friendly and knowledgeable staff", stated President John Nichols in a recent meeting. The grand opening event will be Thursday, December 8th.

You can count on Palmer Trucks for the parts on hand and quick reliable service. As a certified Kenworth Premier Care parts and service provider, our factory trained technicians will make sure you receive the service and support you need to keep your truck on the road.

Kenworh of Fremont phone number is 260-495-2617

March 14, 2012

from the American Trucking Associations

Arlington, Va. – American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves issued the following statement today congratulating the Senate for passing an historic, long-term highway bill, and urged the House to quickly follow suit:
“The highway bill passed by the Senate is an example of how things should work in Washington,” Graves said. “This bill advances the cause of highway safety and takes a number of important steps toward reforming our transportation system – two accomplishments that the committee chairmen and ranking members - Senators Boxer, Inhofe, Baucus, Hatch, Rockefeller and Hutchison - are to be commended for.

“As representatives of the trucking industry, we’re particularly pleased to see this bill provide not just attention to – but $2 billion a year in funding for – highway freight-specific projects, reforms and consolidates redundant programs, speeds project approval; and steers clear of the tempting, but ill-advised use of tolls on existing Interstates,” Graves said. “In particular, we’d like to thank Sen. Bingaman for his work to ensure that public-private partnerships protect the public interest, and that states do not get extra credit for selling off their transportation assets to the highest bidder. We also appreciate Sen. Hutchison’s efforts to prevent the spread of tolls.

“This bill is also a step forward for highway safety. It orders the creation of a clearinghouse for commercial drivers’ drug and alcohol test results, directs the federal government to create a notification system so employers can be told of drivers’ traffic infractions, moves us in the direction of establishing crashworthiness standards for large trucks, raises the bar new companies and drivers must clear before coming into the trucking industry; and orders the mandating of electronic logs for all commercial drivers,” Graves said. “While several safety initiatives, such as improved truck productivity, were not included i

n this bill, it is important to recognize just how much this bill does to improve truck safety.
“Now that the Senate has completed its work, I urge the House to pass its own bill and then quickly work with the Senate to send a bipartisan reform bill to the President, one which sets a new course based on the principles of promoting targeted, effective safety programs, and funding the most cost-beneficial transportation projects,” Graves said.

Clean Energy Fuels is one of the leaders in providing natural gas refill stations across the United States. Clean Energy Fuels' goal is to provide a extensive infrastructure of natual gas filling stations for natural gas powered trucks.  

More information on the company and a list of natural gas refill stations can be found HERE

Clean Cities advances the nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by supporting local actions to reduce petroleum consumption in transportation. A national network of nearly 100 Clean Cities coalitions brings together stakeholders in the public and private sectors to deploy alternative and renewable fuels, idle-reduction measures, fuel economy improvements, and emerging transportation technologies.

More information can be found HERE

From cleanvehicle.org

September 17, 2010

Natural gas is an environmentally clean, plentiful, low-cost, domestically produced fuel that is used in more than 70,000,000 homes and businesses throughout the US and as a transportation fuel for motor vehicles. But is it a safe vehicle fuel?

Any fuel, including those used in motor vehicles, can be dangerous if handled improperly. Fuels
contain energy, which is released when the fuel is ignited. Gasoline is a potentially dangerous fuel, but,
by understanding how to handle it, we have learned to use it safely. The same is true of natural gas.
Natural gas safely generates our electricity, heats our homes and cooks our meals. But, like gasoline,
natural gas must be understood and respected in order to be used safely.

Natural gas is fuel that occurs naturally and requires very little processing before use. Chemically it
normally consists of over 90% methane with smaller amounts of ethane, propane, butane, carbon
dioxide and other trace gases. Pure methane has a very high octane rating (120-130) and the high
methane content of natural gas in turn gives natural gas this same attribute. The low carbon content of
methane also allows for the potential of low carbon and green house gas emissions.

Continue reading HERE

From successfuldealer.com

February 12th, 2012

Cummins Inc. announced the expansion of the on-highway natural gas engine lineup with the Cummins Westport ISX12 G and the signing of an amended joint-venture agreement with Westport Innovations.

The ISX12 G is built on the Cummins ISX12 and utilizes the same base engine and key components as its diesel counterpart. It features Cummins Westport’s proprietary spark-ignited combustion technology with Stoichiometric cooled Exhaust Gas Recirculation (SEGR), first introduced on the 8.9-liter ISL G.

Cummins Inc. announced the expansion of the on-highway natural gas engine lineup with the Cummins Westport ISX12 G and the signing of an amended joint-venture agreement with Westport Innovations.

The ISX12 G is built on the Cummins ISX12 and utilizes the same base engine and key components as its diesel counterpart. It features Cummins Westport’s proprietary spark-ignited combustion technology with Stoichiometric cooled Exhaust Gas Recirculation (SEGR), first introduced on the 8.9-liter ISL G.

Continue reading HERE

Here is some information of the Clean Vehicle Education Foundation:

Our Mission...
CVEF is a non-profit national organization whose mission is to assess and guide alternative fuels icluding NGV and natural gas-to-hydrogen R&D³ activities and build awareness for - and foster deployment of - alternative fuel systems including natural gas- and other clean fuel-powered vehicles in the public and private sector.

What We Do...
CVEF coordinates and implements a variety of public awareness, education, market research, codes and standards and technology programs at the national level. Our activities help achieve national goals of cleaner air, reduced dependence on imported oil and accelerated development and deployment of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs). Our activities are varied and include:
 

• Educating fleet operators, clean vehicle advocates and air quality and transportation policy-makers about the benefits of AFVs through seminars, trade publications and mass media, and national conventions and expositions.
• Analyzing the comparative benefits and costs of NGV and other clean vehicle technologies and the economic, technical and other potential factors affecting market acceptance.
• Publishing reports, newsletters and other materials for use by clean vehicle advocates, policy-makers and AFV industry participants in educating their constituent audiences
• Coordinating and supporting AFV codes and standards (C&S) development and maintenance for the US and assisting in the harmonization of international gaseous fuel vehicle C&S in North America.
• Facilitating the transfer of relevant portions of NGV standards to hydrogen standards and helping coordinate acceptance of hydrogen standards at the state and local levels
• Developing and maintaining AFV and related infrastructure RD&D and market development plans with input from representatives of government, industry and regional/state coalitions.
• Facilitating the exchange of ideas and information between current and prospective AFV operators via committees, user groups, focus groups and other forums.

More information can be found HERE

Here is the Department of Energy's alternative fuels page. On it you can find detailed information on the most popular forms of alternative fuel.

The link to the page can be found HERE

Mar 14, 2012

from reuters.com

(Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to provide tax incentives for natural gas vehicles was defeated in a Senate vote on Tuesday, but a key backer of the bill said it will be revised and reintroduced to address concerns from industry.
 
The five-year plan, to be financed by fees charged to users of the fuel, was designed to spur purchases of long-haul trucks and commercial vehicles that can run on cheap and abundant U.S. natural gas. It would also help defray the costs of building pumps and other infrastructure for fueling.

The closely watched vote pitted billionaire T. Boone Pickens, who has been promoting natural gas vehicles since 2008, against Koch Industries, an energy conglomerate that saw the plan as interference in the private sector.

As gasoline prices spike to new highs for this time of year, President Barack Obama had promoted the concept as part of a long-term plan to reduce prices at the pump, a top issue ahead of November elections.

Read full article HERE

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

Check out this 2013 Kenworth T660 available at Kenworth of Indianapolis. Call for more details.

(866) 648-1168

Additional Equipment

Dual Tanks Air Shield Cab Extenders Heated Mirrors Visor Aluminum Tanks Chrome Exhaust Dual Bunks Power Windows Power Door Locks Tilt/Telescopic Wheel Dual High-Back Seats Airride Passenger Seat Cruise Control Daylight Doors

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

Here is a 2012 Kenworth T700 available for sale at Kenworth of Indianapolis. Call for more details.

(866) 648-1168

Additional Equipment

AM/FM/CD/SIRIUS SMARTWHEEL FRIDGE/FREEZER KEYLESS EMTRY Dual Tanks Cab Extenders Heated Mirrors Aluminum Tanks Chrome Exhaust Dual Bunks Power Windows Power Door Locks Tilt/Telescopic Wheel Wrap-Around Dash Dual High-Back Seats

From cleanenergyfuels.com

America’s Natural Gas Highway: The Clean Energy Solution



Trucks powered by cleaner, cheaper and All-American natural gas will soon travel the country on America’s Natural Gas Highway. We are building a network of LNG truck fueling stations on the Interstate Highway System and in major metropolitan areas. Soon, natural gas fueling infrastructure will be ready to serve long-haul trucks traveling across the USA as well as regional trucks working within local areas.
 

Clean Energy is America’s largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation — your connection to natural gas fueling.

We build, operate and maintain fueling stations that compress and dispense compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel for light- and medium-duty vehicles and dispense liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for heavy-duty vehicles.

Trucks powered by cleaner, cheaper, domestic natural gas will soon travel the country on America’s Natural Gas Highway, our network of LNG truck fueling stations on Interstate Highways and in major metropolitan areas.

The first phase includes 150 fueling stations with approximately 70 anticipated to be open in 33 states by the end of 2012 and the balance in 2013. Many will be co-located at Pilot-Flying J Travel Centers already serving goods movement trucking.

The opening of these stations coincides with the expected arrival of new natural gas truck engines well suited for heavy-duty, over-the-road trucking.

In 2011, supporting the transition of trucking from diesel to natural gas fuel, we raised a total of $450 million investment in Clean Energy to help fund the development of these stations and other capital projects from Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), the nation’s second largest natural gas producer, Boone Pickens, our Co-Founder, and a group of international investors.

We believe the time is right for taking this action to build the national LNG fueling infrastructure.

We look forward to serving truckers and shippers on America’s Natural Gas Highway.

LNG truck fueling

• Can save up to $1.50 per gallon or more based on market conditions

• High-mileage truck incremental cost payback less than a year

• Lowers greenhouse gas emissions

• Helps reduce the use of imported oil

• Creates jobs in America

• Helps grow our economy

We want to hear from truck fleets and shippers about your needs for LNG fueling stations. Let us know where we can expand the highway network to support your deployment of LNG trucks.

For more information, contact Jim Harger at 562.493.2804, ext. 223.

Read the full article, and see a list of all natural gas filling stations, here

Check out this used 2009 Kenworth W900 for sale at Kenworth of Indianapolis. Call for more details.

800-827-8421

Additional Equipment

Dual Tanks Cab Extenders Chrome Bumper Heated Mirrors Visor Aluminum Tanks Chrome Exhaust Dual Exhaust Dual Air Horns Dual Bunks Power Windows Power Door Locks Tilt/Telescopic Wheel Dual High-Back Seats Airride Passenger Seat Cruise Control Daylight Doors