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InvestigateWest: Cascadia needs stronger clean-fuels push. By PETER FAIRLEY, InvestigateWest
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These days Frank Lemos manages a shipping operation, but the former truck driver still gets behind the wheel occasionally to train new drivers or to fill a staffing hole. When he does, he notices a big difference. The firm recently moved away from conventional diesel fuel, and now there’s something missing: the permeating petroleum smell that drivers wear after a day inside a big rig.
“You come home, and you don’t get to just jump in bed if you’re tired. You have to take a shower, or else someone’s going to kick you out of bed,” said Lemos, who is operations manager for Portland-based Titan Freight Systems.
Trucking company found switching to renewable biodiesel had other benefits
April 27, 2021
Truck drivers working for Titan Freight Systems of Portland, Ore. have noticed some significant differences since the company switched to renewable biodeisel to fuel its fleet.
Last fall, the company, which transports goods through Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia, moved to the biofuel made from vegetable oils, livestock tallow and cooking grease instead of relying on crude oil. Not only does the fuel perform like petroleum diesel, it emits less toxic fumes breathed in by Titan’s drivers and a lingering smell they bring home with them.
Drivers had become accustomed to having to shower immediately upon returning home form a long haul when conventional diesel was used in trucks. But these benefits of biodiesel wasn’t what led to Titan’s move in that direction. The shift was triggered by the company’s desire to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhous
These days, Frank Lemos manages a shipping operation, but the former truck driver still gets behind the wheel occasionally to train new drivers or to fill a staffing hole. When he does, he notices a big difference. The firm recently moved away from conventional diesel fuel, and now there s something missing: the permeating petroleum smell that drivers wear after a day inside a big rig. You come home, and you don t get to just jump in bed if you re tired. You have to take a shower, or else someone s going to kick you out of bed, said Lemos, who is operations manager for Portland-based Titan Freight Systems.
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Peter Fairley is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria and San Francisco, whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, NewScientist, Hakai Magazine, Technology Review, the Atlantic, Nature and elsewhere. SHARES The Parkland refinery in Burnaby is changing its diet. Designed to convert Canadian petroleum and bitumen into jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and other fuels, it meets BC’s clean fuel standard by increasingly blending in renewable feedstocks.
Photo via Alamy. [Editor’s note: This is the latest in a year-long occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations exploring what it will take to shift the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy, and is supported in part by the Fund for Investigativ