The City of Rancho Cucamonga was awarded MSRC Clean Transportation Funding for the purchase of four (4) CNG vehicles three (3) street sweepers and one (1) roll-off dump truck.
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Three street sweeping vehicles were purchased from Schwarze. The first two trucks were delivered on October 10, 2008 and the third vehicle was delivered three weeks later in November. Street sweeper operators were trained on how to drive and operate the new CNG vehicles. As soon as the training was completed and the vehicles were inspected by the City Fleet staff, the vehicles were placed into service and have been serving the City ever since. The roll-off dump truck was delivered in August 2009 and has been place into service. The vehicles are garaged at the City's Corporate Yard located on Ninth Street. Refueling of the trucks is performed overnight using the brand new CNG fueling station located at the Corporate Yard.
The objective of this project was to assist the City of Rancho Cucamonga in acquiring vehicles with the cleanest fuel available for street sweeping and street maintenance by replacing older diesel street sweepers and roll-off dump truck with compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles.
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) helps reduce the emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere. The City has been actively retiring its fleet of diesel-powered street sweepers and replacing them with CNG models since 2007. Each sweeper replaced with a CNG model provides at least 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over diesel. The use of low-emission alternative fuel vehicles is an effective strategy to reduce mobile source emissions.