Burrtec Waste Industries, Inc. is a major solid waste collection company serving several areas within the South Coast AQMD. This project purchased and deployed 15 natural gas powered solid waste collection trucks. These trucks will be based at Burrtec's Santa Clarita facility located in Los Angeles County.
3165000.00
The 15 new solid waste collection trucks were ordered from Diversified Sales & Service and Rush Truck Center. Some delay was experienced in the delivery of the truck cab and chassis; however, all vehicles were successfully received and up-fitted with the new low-emission CNG engine, tanks, and fuel system components.
The purpose of this project was to assist Burrtec Waste Industries in acquiring new, low emission compressed natural gas (CNG) refuse collection trucks in lieu of diesel-fueled vehicles. These trucks are equipped with state of the art heaby-duty CNG engines certified by the California Air Resources Board at less than 0.2 grams/bhp-hr for oxides of nitrogen (NOx). These were the lowest emissing heavy-duty engines commercially available at the time of purchase and replaced older diesel-fueled trucks.
Burrtec estimates that the 15 trucks will displace over 376,000 gallons of diesel fuel per year for a minimum of five years.
All 15 trucks were placed into service by March 2010 and are currently operating in revenue service. Each vehicle has operate as expected and no significant technical issues have been encountered to date.
Rush Truck Center