Textile Rental recently featured a Swedish company (February, pg. 36) that uses methane in its route vehicles—both to control costs and to benefit the environment. In an earlier era of energy/green consciousness, Reliable Linen Service, Los Angeles, was thinking and acting along the same lines. Its response—as shown in the photo collage above—was to customize its route vehicles to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) instead of gasoline. In an article in the August 1974 Linen Supply News, former TRSA President Tony Richman (1993-’95) cited the significant savings he was getting from the trucks. They were running on only 8 ...