Biodiesel is how we roll

Something big and special has been rolling down the highways since April. We recently rolled out with a new transport truck. It’s running on biodiesel fuel and is one of the ways we are decreasing the carbon footprint of method shipments within the US. The addition of our new biodiesel truck will save an estimated 62,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 686 tons of carbon dioxide annually. That's like planting 3,400 trees a year!

What's cool about our biodiesel rig?

Enhanced Aerodynamics

• Marker lights that are flush with bright durable LED lights
• Mirrors on door/hood curved for wind cutting stability

Low Rolling Resistance Tires

• Reduced rolling resistance with single-wide and aluminum tires
• Reduced weight

Automatic Tire Inflation System -

• Pressure sensors and automatic inflation system allows for increased fuel efficiency

Seen it on the road already? Let us know. Or even send in your method truck snapshots – we’d love to see them too!

Comments

[pchoate]

Now that is a sustainable product I can feel great about...from manufacturing and transport to the shelf...to the recycle bin!

You should join your state trucking association, other businesses have a lot to learn from you!

Pam Choate
Public Relations
Sustainability Liason
Arkansas Trucking Association

[Susy]

Do all of your products get delivered via this truck or more like it? Or do some get delivered by regular trucks?

[Marvin]

How do you figure out where to drive this? Biodiesel is not available most places I know about.

[Nate Duchene]

Is this leased or owned equipment? From a business perspective - a fleet of any size is a massive capital expense for a growth-oriented company to bear.

As an advocate of Method and sustainable business, I hope they employ an incentive-based approach with third party carriers (for alternative fuels or etc.) before accumulating capital assets like this.

[Nate Duchene]

Is this leased or owned equipment? From a business perspective - a fleet of any size is a massive capital expense for a growth-oriented company to bear.

As an advocate of Method and sustainable business, I hope they employ an incentive-based approach with third party carriers (for alternative fuels or etc.) before accumulating capital assets like this.

[Nate Duchene]

Is this leased or owned equipment? From a business perspective - a fleet of any size is a massive capital expense for a growth-oriented company to bear.

As an advocate of Method and sustainable business, I hope they employ an incentive-based approach with third party carriers (for alternative fuels or etc.) before accumulating capital assets like this.

[Nate Duchene]

Is this leased or owned equipment? From a business perspective - a fleet of any size is a massive capital expense for a growth-oriented company to bear.

As an advocate of Method and sustainable business, I hope they employ an incentive-based approach with third party carriers (for alternative fuels or etc.) before accumulating capital assets like this.

[Cheryl Fulton-Sears]

Although your truck is definately a step in the right direction, biofuels are not the answer. The costs associated with their production are too high for the consumer. Have you thought of solar panels and vegetable oil like a catering truck I've seen on the Green Channel? Makes more sense.....maybe even solar and wind combo.