As Customer Needs Evolve, J.B. Hunt Gets Creative with Bio-Based Fuels

J.B. Hunt, a transportation company, has grown significantly, focusing on embracing change and solving customer challenges. They’ve embraced sustainability, aiming to reduce carbon emissions intensity by 32% by 2034. Bio-based fuels, including renewable diesel and biodiesel, are critical to their strategy. They’ve integrated these fuels into their fleet operations with the help of Chevron Renewable Energy Group, using UltraClean BlenDTM, an 80/20 blend of renewable diesel and biodiesel. This drop-in fuel seamlessly fits into their trucks, maintains performance, and significantly lowers carbon intensity. J.B. Hunt sees bio-based fuels as a financially wise choice due to incentives and plans to continue expanding their use to align with customer sustainability goals.

‘”Renewable diesel and biodiesel offer the greatest greenhouse gas reduction impact available under current reporting guidelines,” says Mounce. “It also makes economic sense due to various state and federal incentives, which is obviously a differentiator in a time when most other emission reduction concepts come at a premium cost.”…While J.B. Hunt is exploring many solutions for lowering carbon emissions and meeting their 2034 targets, they recognize not all those solutions are viable to implement across the entire fleet today, and thus, view bio-based fuels as a key component of their lower carbon strategy for many years to come.’

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