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Article: Coca-Cola Enterprises to purchase hybrid trucks from Kenworth.(supply scan)
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- Food Logistics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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As part of its overall commitment to energy conservation and climate change, Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE) plans to deploy an incremental 185 hybrid electric trucks across the United States and Canada in 2009, bringing its total number of hybrid electric delivery trucks to 327, the largest such fleet in North America.
The Atlanta-based soft drink maker is purchasing the trucks from Kenworth Truck Co., Kirkland, WA. This is Kenworth's largest hybrid truck order ever. CCE has ordered 150 Kenworth T370 diesel-electric tractors and 35 Kenworth T370 hybrid trucks, all of which will be on the road this year.
The Kenworth T370 tractors (rated at 55,000 lb. GCW) ...