Renewable diesel also yields far less carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that drive climate change.
Destructive wildfire seasons inspired Titan’s shift to renewable diesel a year ago, after a fire devastated Phoenix, Oregon, five miles from one of the firm’s terminals. “Doing nothing is not a course of action,” is how Titan’s owner Keith Wilson described his visceral response.
Wilson knew climate change was stoking Cascadia’s fires, and that diesel vehicles produce over a third of Oregon’s transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. Biofuels cut Titan’s petroleum diesel consumption by 93% and cut its carbon footprint by over two-thirds.
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Feb 01, 2021
Keith Wilson, president of Titan Freight Systems, is working with Oregon legislators to draft a bill that would phase out sales of petroleum diesel, starting in 2023, and increase the supply of renewable fuels.
Titan Freight Systems in 2010 set an ambitious goal to reduce fleet emissions by 20% within a decade.
The Portland, Oregon-based company’s Vision 2020 plan had metrics tied to fuel efficiency gains. To execute on those metrics, Titan replaced most of the 2007 EPA Tier 2 and older engine emission trucks in its fleet and invested hundreds of thousands in aftermarket products that included engine idle shut off devices, cab fairings, trailer side skirts, wheel covers and technology for monitoring driver speeds and behaviors.
December 15 2020
TriMet will play a key role in getting employees, particularly low-wage workers, back on the job in the Portland metro area.
There s a looming crisis on the horizon in 2021, one that most people haven t heard about yet though the impacts will be severe.
COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on public transportation budgets everywhere, and unfortunately TriMet is no exception. Due to necessary and effective social distancing measures, revenue from transit fares and local taxes have evaporated. In addition, the increased costs for cleaning and purchasing protective masks and gloves has forced many transit agencies to announce dramatic service cuts.
The devastating cuts planned in New York City, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., include canceling weekend and late-night service and cutting half of bus and train service during the week. This will most likely happen in Portland, too, if Congress doesn t pass at least $32 billion in emergency relief. And it will severely hurt