Strange tanks on this Concrete truck

[Nige]

It usually only makes sense to municipalities with plenty of money to throw around

And mining companies.......
All large Cat mining trucks can now be operated on CNG. Info regarding retrofits is just coming on to SIS.

This article is about 18 months old now.......... https://www.cat.com/en_ZA/news/mach...-fuel-retrofit-kit-for-785c-mining-truck.html

 

[repowerguy]

Lack of range for a concrete truck is less of a drawback than sitting dead on the side of the road with an emmisions hickup.

An emissions derate with 10 yards in the drum on the roadside is a disaster. Usually it means sugaring the load and dumping it at the plant when you finally get it back there.
Oh for the days of 3306 Cats and HT-740 Allisons.

 

[Ronsii]

And mining companies.......
All large Cat mining trucks can now be operated on CNG. Info regarding retrofits is just coming on to SIS.

This article is about 18 months old now.......... https://www.cat.com/en_ZA/news/mach...-fuel-retrofit-kit-for-785c-mining-truck.html

Interesting...

 

[kshansen]

And mining companies.......
All large Cat mining trucks can now be operated on CNG. Info regarding retrofits is just coming on to SIS.

This article is about 18 months old now.......... https://www.cat.com/en_ZA/news/mach...-fuel-retrofit-kit-for-785c-mining-truck.html

20 to 40 percent fuel savings sound like one good incentive as long as other costs don't eat up those savings. I'm just guessing that the CNG is a bit cleaner running than diesel so might allow for extending oil change intervals?

 

[mowingman]

Our city has/had a fleet of CNG powered roll-off trucks and some garbage trucks. The previous solid waste management was really proud of them. Seems like they forgot to tell certain people in the city admin., as well as us citizens, that they had to get a special fueling truck up here from a larger city 30 miles down the road to fuel the things. Of course, that was supposed to be just until they built a one million dollar+ fueling station for CNG out at the landfill. Our new city manager put a stop to that foolishness really quickly. The CNG fleet is to be phased out and all new trucks are good old diesels.