Electric trucks take over the Joliet rail shuttle
Twenty-two battery-electric tractors now run every container between the intermodal ramp and our Joliet cross-dock, cutting 1,400 tonnes of CO₂e a year.
Hana WeberVP, Sustainability
Every container that moves between the Joliet intermodal ramp and our cross-dock is now hauled by a battery-electric tractor.
The shuttle is short, around eleven kilometres each way, but busy: up to 600 moves a day. That makes it ideal for electric trucks, which charge at the cross-dock during loading and never need to stop on the road.
The twenty-two tractors will avoid an estimated 1,400 tonnes of CO₂e a year. Customers see the reduction on their shipment-level emissions reports from this month.
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