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TUSD Bus Drivers To Start Training on Fueling Station

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Contact: Estella Zavala or Toni Córdova, 225-6437 
Posted on: April 4, 2003

Six TUSD bus drivers will begin training to use ENRG’s first public compressed natural gas fueling station at 10:30 a.m. April 7 at the station, 3034 E. Coronado Rd.

Drivers will transport buses to the station where they will learn to use the card-lock facility, which will be open for 24-hours, seven days a week. ENRG representatives will be on hand to demonstrate how drivers can safely refuel their buses.

TUSD first acquired buses that use compressed natural gas, or CNG, in 1994. In addition, the district used an intergovernmental agreement to fuel busses at the City of Tucson’s Price Service Center. Every year since then, TUSD’s busses have used approximately 5,000 gallons of CNG, which is a cleaner burning fuel than either gasoline or diesel fuel.

ENRG is the largest provider of vehicular natural gas and related services in North America. It has a broad customer base that includes refuse, transit, shuttle, taxi, police, intrastate and interstate trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets with private and public fleet vehicles fueling at more than 145 locations, principally in California, Arizona, Colorado and Texas in the US, and in British Columbia and Ontario in Canada. Customers range from Los Angeles International Airport and Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, to SuperShuttle, Sunline Transit and Waste Management, to MTDB of San Diego and the US Navy. 

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