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PAM Transportation Services Wins DOE Grant To Help Fund Alternative Fuel Vehicles And Alternative Fuel Infrastructure - Quick Facts

July 30, 2010, Friday, 17:07 GMT | 12:07 EST | 21:37 IST | 00:07 SGT

(RTTNews) - P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. (PTSI) announced the award of a United States Department of Energy grant to help fund alternative fuel vehicles and alternative fuel infrastructure. The grant is a cost-share project for 27 Compressed Natural Gas powered tractors to operate in The Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex and for a Commercial "Public" Access Fast Fill CNG refueling station to be located at 909 Duncan Perry Rd. Arlington, Texas.

The grant award of $2.3 million was a portion of the $13.2 million awarded to the North Central Texas Council of Governments. The grant money would help the region fund 382 fuel-efficient vehicles and 11 refueling stations. Once implemented, the North Texas projects could save nearly 1.3 million gallons of petroleum fuels, improve air quality, and create jobs, the company added.