The Propane Provider Fleet Survey collected information regarding the fleets and fleet vehicles operated by propane providers throughout the United States as of the end of 1993.

Some highlights are:

• At the end of 1993, propane providers in the United States operated approximately 82,000 fleet vehicles.
• 47 percent of the vehicles operated by propane providers were fueled by alternative fuels.
  • 77 percent of the AFV's were converted vehicles;
  • 88 percent of the AFV's were dedicated to a single fuel.
• 58 percent of the new vehicles planned for service in 1994 were AFV's.
• 90 percent of the vehicles operated were centrally fueled at a company-owned site.
• Propane-vehicles maintenance costs averaged approximately 5 percent less than those of conventional-fuel vehicles.
• Fleet vehicles are replaced or retired every 7 to 8 years. Propane vehicles are kept in services slightly longer than conventional vehicles.
• Only 13 percent of the fleet vehicles were available to employees for uses other than business.
• Propane provider fleet vehicles consumed less gasoline than propane.
• Essentially all of the alternative-fuel vehicles operated by propane providers were fueled by propane (there were a negligible number of vehicles fueled by compressed natural gas).

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