After years of diesel clatter, sweet silence fills the cab of Kevin Knowles’ Frito-Lay delivery truck. The truck, one of 10 electric vehicles in Frito-Lay’s Dallas-area fleet, quietly plies the streets of Wylie, Texas, and Murphy, Texas.
Once the soot-belching, big-foot monsters of the highway, giant commercial trucks are slowly becoming more eco-friendly — out of necessity.