March 2014
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tors, perform service planning, undertake
procurement and other financial responsi-
bilities, administer grants, run an IT depart-
ment and perform customer outreach.
YCTD has also had a great deal of success
hiring part-time undergraduate and gradu-
ate students from UC Davis, Sacramento
State University and Woodland Communi-
ty College. Many of these students have used
YCTD to launch their professional careers.
When operations began in 1982, the 14-
unit diesel-powered fleet was neither wheel-
chair-accessible nor new – with an average
per-bus age of 16 years – and the bus yard
was a gravel yard in what now is West Sac-
ramento. These days, routes are so plentiful
that enough miles are logged to make a trip
from Sacramento to either Beijing, China or
Warsaw, Poland every weekday.
Today, the fleet includes 44 CNG buses
with wheelchair access, six accessible high-
way coaches that accommodate 57 passen-
gers and run on clean diesel fuel, and 10
smaller vehicles used primarily for the elderly
and disabled.
Yolobus got its initial grant to investigate
the use of (CNG) as fleet fuel back in1989. El
Paso Natural Gas, Chevron Research, Sierra
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