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Have you looked into natural gas running Peterbilt highway tractors? Apparently, these Petes are gaining some popularity and Peterbilt has already fielded orders for up to as many as 200 Peterbilt Model 367 trucks.
The 367 trucks use a cleaner burning, lower cost fuel (compared with diesel), and according to Peterbilt, the performance is just as much there as the diesel engine tractors.
“Peterbilt’s clean-powered alternative fuel platforms provide customers an innovative and economic solution that delivers high-quality performance and fuel efficiency to support their business objectives,” stated Bill Jackson, Peterbilt’s general manager and PACCAR vice president. The photo above shows one of Peterbilt’s highway tractors with a pretty good sized truck sleeper unit, which has become a custom big rig in somebody’s imagination, with some pretty unusual (for a semi) rims. You don’t see too many owner-operators throwing mags on their fleets. Anyway, an eye-catching tractor design.
“As the leading manufacturer of alternative fuel system vehicles, Peterbilt’s products provide the horsepower, torque and efficiency to get the job done.”
Some specs of this model Peterbilt:
Westport GX engine
(Up to) 475 horsepower
1,750 foot-pounds
Peterbilt has other of these types of semi truck models as well. They sell 384, 365 and 320 models with Cummins Westport ISL-G engines — with 320 horsepower and 1,000 foot-pounds of torque. They recommend them for certain uses more than others. According to Peterbilt the trucks make good short-haul, regional, refuse and dump trucks. I have yet to see a motorhome version using this kind of truck as the base — I guess it’d be a “toterhome”, so if anyone has one, by all means send it to us for sure.
