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PacLease customer deploys Kenworth T880s with Cummins X15N engine

March 31, 2025
Eight trucks with the natural gas engine are being used to haul waste in Pennsylvania.

Cummins started production on the X15, the first big-bore natural gas engine in the industry, last September. Pre-production versions were field tested by 16 leading fleets, and now the X15N is ready for everyday work.

At the end of February, waste hauling company Bousum Trucking began using Kenworth T880 day cabs spec’d with Cummins’ X15N CNG engine around central Pennsylvania. These are the first units with the natural gas engine leased through PacLease, which will handle maintenance and service.

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John Hitch | Editor-in-chief, Fleet Maintenance

John Hitch is the award-winning editor-in-chief of Fleet Maintenance, where his mission is to provide maintenance leaders and technicians with the the latest information on tools, strategies, and best practices to keep their fleets' commercial vehicles moving.

He is based out of Cleveland, Ohio, and has worked in the B2B journalism space for more than a decade. Hitch was previously senior editor for FleetOwner and before that was technology editor for IndustryWeek and and managing editor of New Equipment Digest.

Hitch graduated from Kent State University and was editor of the student magazine The Burr in 2009. 

The former sonar technician served honorably aboard the fast-attack submarine USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723), where he participated in counter-drug ops, an under-ice expedition, and other missions he's not allowed to talk about for several more decades.

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