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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 4555711" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.act-news.com/news/kansas-city-ups-and-cleaner-fuels/" target="_blank"><strong>Kansas City, UPS and Cleaner Fuels - ACT News</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Kansas City Regional Clean Cities is lending a hand with urban clean fuel projects for UPS in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. We’ll try and keep the superlatives to a minimum: UPS is the biggest for-hire freight trucking company in North America—by revenue ($71.9 billion in 2019), by income ($4.8 billion) and by employee count (481,000). FedEx is a close second, but from there, it’s a long way down to the next in line. XPO Logistics, ranked #3 by <a href="https://www.ttnews.com/top100/for-hire/2019" target="_blank">Transport Topics</a>, has less than one-quarter the revenue, fewer than one-quarter the employees, and for 2019 had less than one-tenth the income of Big Brown. UPS operates nearly 125,000 vehicles globally. These range from Class 8 tractors to motorcycles, and they handle long-haul freight, cross-town courier deliveries, and everything in between. When a company this big moves towards alternative fuels, it does so in a big way. To date, UPS has embraced propane, hybrid-electric and hydraulic hybrid, ethanol, liquefied natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), and all-electric technologies in different locations and duty cycles. Through 2019, they’d already put more than 10,300 alternative fuel and advanced technology units on the road – not quite ten percent of their global fleet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 4555711, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.act-news.com/news/kansas-city-ups-and-cleaner-fuels/'][B]Kansas City, UPS and Cleaner Fuels - ACT News[/B][/URL] Kansas City Regional Clean Cities is lending a hand with urban clean fuel projects for UPS in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. We’ll try and keep the superlatives to a minimum: UPS is the biggest for-hire freight trucking company in North America—by revenue ($71.9 billion in 2019), by income ($4.8 billion) and by employee count (481,000). FedEx is a close second, but from there, it’s a long way down to the next in line. XPO Logistics, ranked #3 by [URL='https://www.ttnews.com/top100/for-hire/2019']Transport Topics[/URL], has less than one-quarter the revenue, fewer than one-quarter the employees, and for 2019 had less than one-tenth the income of Big Brown. UPS operates nearly 125,000 vehicles globally. These range from Class 8 tractors to motorcycles, and they handle long-haul freight, cross-town courier deliveries, and everything in between. When a company this big moves towards alternative fuels, it does so in a big way. To date, UPS has embraced propane, hybrid-electric and hydraulic hybrid, ethanol, liquefied natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), and all-electric technologies in different locations and duty cycles. Through 2019, they’d already put more than 10,300 alternative fuel and advanced technology units on the road – not quite ten percent of their global fleet. [/QUOTE]
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