Burrtec Waste Industries, Inc.is a major solid waste collection and recycling company serving several areas within the South Coast AQMD. This project purchased and deployed 15 natural gas powered solid waste collection trucks at Burrtec's Azusa facility located in Los Angeles County.
3165000.00
The 15 new solid waste collection trucks were ordered from LA Freightliner and Rush Truck Center. Delays in delivery of the truck chassis and cab were experienced; however, each vehicle was successfully up-fitted with the new CNG engine, fuel tanks, and fuel delivery systems.
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 vehicles are equipped with a state of the art natural gas heavy-duty engine, certified by the California Air Resources Board at less than 0.2 g/bhp-hr for oxides of nitrogen (NOx). These are the lowest emitting heavy duty engines commercially available at the time of purchase and relaced older diesel-fueled vehicles.
Burrtec estimates that the 15 trucks will displace over 375,000 gallons of diesel fuel per year for a minimum of five years.
All 15 vehicles are in waste collection service as of August 2010. Each vehicle has operated as expected and no significant technical issues have been encountered to date.
Rush Truck Center