Questar Fueling announced it has agreed to build a compressed natural gas fueling facility in Houston for use by Swift Transportation and Central Freight Lines.

More than 930,000 medium- and heavy-duty natural gas-powered trucks and buses are expected to be sold worldwide by 2019, according to a new report.

Covanta Energy Corp. and Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said they will develop compressed natural gas fueling stations at Covanta locations, beginning this month at Covanta’s Newark, N.J., facility.

America’s natural-gas boom has the potential to be another big win — if we work together to do it the right way. But if we don’t get it right, substituting natural gas for diesel in our longhaul trucking fleet could just as easily become a losing proposition for everyone concerned.

Interstate 77 north of Charleston, W.Va., was reopened Wednesday morning following a huge natural-gas explosion on Tuesday afternoon, the Charleston Gazette reported.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The use of natural gas in Class 8 freight-hauling trucks should begin in earnest next year with the introduction of an engine suitable for heavy-duty loads, according to a panel of original equipment manufacturers.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Natural gas has tremendous potential as a trucking industry fuel, but its era for over-the-road freight hauling is just beginning, according to industry experts who addressed the Natural Gas in Trucking Summit here Nov. 29 and 30.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Fleet managers intent on choosing natural gas as a truck fuel will have to go through a complicated and expensive process to convert, including the development of training and maintenance procedures, said participants in the American Trucking Associations’ Summit on Natural Gas in Trucking.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The low price of natural gas is a main reason why it is so appealing to trucking, but concerns ranging from infrastructure to maintenance are forcing the industry to go slow, executives said.

ARLINGTON, VA. — Trucking should expect “piecemeal” measures that promote natural gas use because the federal government probably is too divided to tackle comprehensive legislation that could include incentives for buying natural gas trucks, two congressmen said.