UNIVERSAL WASTE SYSTEMS CONTROLS COSTS WITH MACK The move to improve air quality in California cities is raising costs among refuse haulers. One company is managing that situation with help from Mack Trucks. “The challenges in California now are the air quality standards,” said Matt Blackburn, general manager of Universal Waste Systems in Santa Fe Springs, a suburb of Los Angeles. “We’re required with our contracts to have natural gas trucks. A lot of the cities are pushing toward compressed natural gas (CNG). Transitioning to the CNG trucks is a large expense. We’re putting in new infrastructure to fuel the trucks. We need to have enough capacity on the trucks so they can get through their daily routes. On top of that we’re taking trucks that are not fully amortized and transitioning them

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