The Green Truck Ride-and-Drive for the 2012 Work Truck Show in Indianapolis will feature 21 vehicles, the National Truck Equipment Association says, noting that the event “will once again max out available space at the Indiana Convention Center.”
Terri Zacha of International Truck with compressed natural gas-fueled WorkStar with 7.6-liter ESI engine at the Work Truck Show 2011 ride-and-drive in Indianapolis
The Green Truck Ride-and-Drive is sponsored by Hino Trucks.
NTEA’s Work Truck Show, North America’s largest work truck event, runs March 6-8. Education sessions start March 5. The Green Truck Ride-and-Drive is open to all show attendees on Tuesday, March 6, and Wednesday, March 7, from 12:00pm to 4:30pm. The event uses Indianapolis city streets to provide a realistic driving experience, so some vehicles require a commercial license.
“Driving a truck under real-world conditions provides insights into the vehicle that you can’t get any other way,” NTEA fleet relations director Bob Johnson says in a release. “You can experience for yourself the vehicle’s handling characteristics, sounds, user-friendliness and more.”
Alternative fuels and vehicle technologies to be showcased this coming year include compressed natural gas-CNG, propane-autogas, battery-electric, extended range electric, ultra-clean biodiesel, bi-fuel CNG, electric hybrids (series and parallel), and hydraulic hybrids.
Diverse Vehicles & Suppliers
Vehicle types include cargo and service vans, pickup trucks, dump trucks, shuttle buses, walk-in vans, tree-trimming trucks, utility trucks, box trucks, and cutaways. The companies providing vehicles for the Ride-and-Drive are Altec Industries (stationary demonstration), BAE Systems, Cummins Crosspoint (VTM), Electric Vehicles International, Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp, Freightliner, Hino Trucks, Impco Automotive, International Truck, Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Kenworth, Knapheide Manufacturing, Leggett & Platt, Lightning Hybrids, Motiv Power Systems, Peterbilt, the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), Ram Trucks, Reading Truck Body, Roush CleanTech, and Smith Electric Vehicles.
Complete vehicle descriptions will be available online in January, NTEA says.
NTEA, which was established in 1964, has held a Green Truck Ride-and-Drive at the Work Truck Show since 2007.
Thre NTEA- and Calstart-hosted Green Truck Summit takes place March 5-6.
