Green Fleets - British Columbia

Each fleet has different vehicles, applications, budgets and operating practices.  Fleets, both small and large, have implemented successful actions to reduce their capital and operating costs, and emissions.  Each has taken somewhat different approaches.  
Here are their success stories.

City of Williams Lake – Goes Idle Free
The City of Williams Lake has made a community wide commitment to lower its environmental footprint.  Reducing costs and emissions from their fleet has been important aspect of this commitment which they have successfully achieved through initiatives such as their Idle Free program.

Langley Fire Department – Uses Biodiesel In Its Fleet
The Township of Langley has a formal greenhouse gas reduction target policy and the Fire Department needed to contribute to achieving the community’s target.  The fire truck fleet of 22 vehicles has successfully implemented the use of a 20% blend of biodiesel in its operations.

Neptune Food Service – Drivers Reduce Idling and Cut Fuel Use
Neptune Food Service, with its 98 Class 6 and 7 trucks, provides daily delivery of food products to convenience stores and restaurants across Metro Vancouver.  Working in close collaboration with its drivers the company implemented an idling reduction program that reduced fuel use by 9% across its fleet.

Novex Courier – Canada’s First Carbon Neutral Courier Fleet
As one of Vancouver’s largest courier companies Novex has made a major commitment to greening its operations, including its fleet. The company has adopted new technologies such as hybrids, used greener fuels like biodiesel, and gone a step further in completely off-setting all its emissions.

TSI Terminal Systems Inc. – High Blends of Biodiesel Used In All Industrial Equipment
TSI is Canada’s largest container operator with two terminals in the Greater Vancouver area. The company has successfully rolled out a biodiesel use program with high blends of biodiesel being used in its 240 pieces of different equipment.

CPx: High-Tech Driver Education - Simulated Driving, Real Environmental Benefits
A Surrey-based trucking firm could be on the way to saving itself a million dollars in fuel costs and, in doing so, dramatically reducing its fleet’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

Excel Transportation -  An Early Lesson Proves Profitable
Excel Transportation’s Vic Martin first learned about environmentally-friendly practices before the phrase was even coined.  Martin says it all goes back to his childhood.

Glenncoe - EnviroTruck: The Right thing to Do

"We've always focused on doing what's right and these new trucks are the total package."  That's how Don Coe, President of Glenncoe Transport Ltd. describes his company's newest additons.  "The EnviroTrucks have everything we wanted."

R&B Trucking - The Little Engine that Could

You don’t often find truckers who are proud to say they have an engine that’s smaller than most, but that’s the case with Paul Cunnington. That’s because his  Victoria-based company, R&B Trucking, is about to take ownership of a specially modified 2008 Freightliner that’s the first Class 5 vehicle of its kind in Western Canada.
 

Wilson's Transportation - Big on Biofuels

A Victoria-area company is on a mission.  “We want to be on the leading edge when it comes to fleet operators in British Columbia using alternative fuels to power their vehicles,” says John Wilson from Wilson’s Transportation Limited.

Paradise Island Foods - Proving that Going Green is Worth It

Paradise Island Foods Inc. owners, Len and Kevin Thomson, have always been environmentally conscious and they didn’t hesitate to stay on the leading edge of green commerce when it came time to update their fleet of trucks at Paradise Island Foods Inc. (PIF).

Share Your Story

Are You Greening Your Fleet?  Have you used a new technique, method or technology that reduced your fuel use and emissions?

If the answer is yes we invite you to share your story with us and other fleets. Please contact us at any time and we will work with you to share your story.