Call-a-Fleet
Sometimes, no amount of numbers can help you make a decision like that of moving to a new fuel in your fleet, like CNG, or LNG. Thus, we have collected here for you a listing of fleet managers that have significant experience using natural gas as a fuel. You can give them a ring (or shoot an email) to ask them any questions you can think of about their experience with using natural gas as a transportation fuel.
Below you will find a U.S. map and stars on that map that identify where these fleet contacts live and work. Click on a green star and you will move down the page to that fleet manager's information. A brief set of info on them is provided to give you something of an introduction to them or their fleet.
Don't be shy! PLEASE give one or more of them a call and see what they have to say about using natural gas.
You can also find quite a few fleet stories on the AFDC Natural Gas Fleet Stories page.
Current NG Fleet Managers
>- City of Kansas City, MO - Sam Swearngin, Fleet Administrator
1901 Brooklyn Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64127
Office - 816-513-8356; Email - sam_swearngin@kcmo.org
Stat: ???
Fleet size: 225 CNG vehicles
Infrastructure: 4 stations
Years experience: 12 years
Introduction: 2009 AFVi Congress Presentation
>- Santa Fe Trails - Jim Dillingham, Fleet and Facilities Manager
2931 Rufina St, Santa Fe, NM 87507
Office - 505-955-2017; Email - jldillingham@ci.santa-fe.nm.us
Stat: They have operated entirely on CNG since they started operation in the early 1990's.
Fleet size: 30 CNG buses; and 5 CNG Honda Civic GXs used for paratransit
Infrastructure: 1 station
Years experience: 34 years
>- University of California, Davis - Richard Battersby, Fleet Services Director
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
Office - 530-752-9666; Email - rebattersby@ucdavis.edu
Web: www.fleet.ucdavis.edu
Fleet size: 30 CNG vehicles (general campus vehicles)
Years experience: 12 years
Stat: Geoff Straw (530-752-6525; gdstraw@ucdavis.edu) is the Unitrans (mass transit) manager at UC Davis. Battersby says "he is running at least 55 CNG transit busses (including a one-of-a-kind CNG doubledecker!) and has done so for many years."
Introduction: UniTrans on campus
>- Lambert International Airport - Mike Bernich, Fleet Maintenance Manager
4800 St. Thomas, Bridgeton, MO 63044
Office - 314-551-5322; Email - mabernich@flystl.com
Fleet size: 100+ CNG vehicles
Years experience: 11 years
>- NY State Dept. of Transportation - Joe Darling, Fleet Administrator
50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12232
Office - 518-457-2875; Email - jdarling@dot.state.ny.us
Fleet size: 1,000+ CNG vehicles
Infrastructure: 60 stations
Years experience: ?? years
>- National Grid - Chris Jones, Fleet Manager
175 E Old Country Rd, Hicksville, NY 11801
Office - ; Email - Christopher.Jones3@us.ngrid.com
Stat: Largest electric and NG utility in the northeast
Fleet size: 300+ CNG vehicles
Infrastructure: 21 stations (in three states)
Years experience: ?? years
>- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - Kurt Reisweber
PO Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
Office - 757-220-7072; Email - kreisweber@cwf.org
Fleet size: 20 CNG transit buses
Infrastructure: 1 CNG station with 4 Bauer compressors
Years experience: 14 years
Introduction: CWF Success Story - CNG
>- Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority - Rich Nardecchia, CFO
1735 Morris Avenue, P.O. Box 10212, Birmingham, AL 35202-0212
Office - 205-521-0113; Email - rnardecchia@bjcta.org
Fleet size: ?? CNG vehicles
Infrastructure: ? stations
Years experience: ?? years
>- City of Lake Jackson, TX - Craig Nisbett, Public Works Director
25 Oak Drive, Lake Jackson, TX 77566
Office - 979-415-2430; Email - cnisbett@ci.lake-jackson.tx.us
Stat: Solid waste fleet (15 vehicles) and light-duty vehicles (20) currently run CNG
Fleet size: 35 CNG vehicles
Infrastructure: 1 station
Years experience: 7 years
>- Fort Worth Transportation Authority - Ron Anderson, Director of Maintenance
1600 E. Lancaster Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76102
Email - ronander@the-t.com
Stat: We got involved due to politics and state laws requiring alternative fuel for transit fleets. Gas is plentiful in this state and use of the gas provided jobs.
Fleet size: 200+ CNG vehicles
Infrastructure: 5 CNG compressors
Years experience: 19 years (first CNG vehicles in 1990)
>- Mansfield Independent School District - Charles Stone, Director of Transportation
1910 N. Main Street, Mansfield, TX 76063
Office - 817-299-6066; Email - stonch@mansfieldisd.org
Stat: First district to use OEM CNG powered school buses in TX (most others use conversions). We have 26 CNGs in the fleet. First entity to use rear engine Phoenix engine conversions (from DT466 to Phoenix) in a school bus (we have 6). Have received approval for DOE grant to increase by 10 school buses this year. Began working on grants in 2005 to get replacement buses. Infrastructure completed summer of 2007. First buses arrived in August 2007. Looks to be the fuel of the future since it is domestic, not a derivative of imported oil. Cost of bus offset by grant funds and tax credit pass through provisions of laws. Clean burning and reliable systems. Cost effective operations.
Fleet size: Total fleet is over 200 school buses - three gasoline, 20 OEM John Deere CNG, 6 OEM Cummins CNG, 6 Phoenix CNG (conversions), and the remainder diesel.
Infrastructure: Dual 512cfm compressor station onsite. Set up only for slow- or time-fill with 20 hose delivery points. Have received approval on DOE grant to increase to fast-fill system which will allow us to convert or add other CNG powered vehicles.
Years experience: 3
>- Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (Current) - Charles B. "Brooks" McAllister, Maintenance Division Director
Marquis One Tower, 245 Peachtree Center Ave, NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
Office - 770-633-7492; Email - charlie13@tds.net
Stats:
- Director, Bus Maintenance, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (Retired)
- MAJ, USA (IN) (Retired)
- Initiated the CNG program at MARTA; was also Project Manager for building new and renovating facilities. Technical training design for new CNG equipment, 16 years experience with a fleet that started with 118 forty-foot low-floor buses and expanded to 460 buses, two 250-bus operating facilities with fast-fill compressor stations and one heavy maintenance facility.
Fleet size: many CNG vehicles
Infrastructure: large CNG refueling station
Years experience: 16 years
Awards: 2006 NGVI/Clean Cities award for the best heavy duty (large fleet category) alternative fuel fleet, North America. Governor of Georgia's commission for environmentally sensitive fuels.
Past NG Fleet Managers
>- Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell III and Associates
PO Box 1207, Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
Office - 760-329-6462; Cell - 760-799-8155; Email - rcromwell@cromwellandassociates.com
Past Experience: General manager of Sunline Transit Agency for almost two decades. During his tenurem they had 46 full-size buses, 26 Dial-A-Ride vehicles and support vehicles, all 100% alternative fuel, mostly CNG. Richard says: "I had a Board resolution that I couldn't buy anything that wasn't alternative fueled. We had CNG, LNG, Hythane, Hydrogen ICE and Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles. Counting SunLine and my subsequent consulting work I've had just over 20 years in the alternative fuel arena. We were the first bus fleet in the USA to convert overnight from a diesel fleet to a fleet 100 % CNG. I retired from SunLine 2003."
Resume: 8/09, Richard Cromwell
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