Oncor is delivering around 300 new vehicles to North Texas as part of the company’s ongoing mission to provide safe, reliable and clean energy to our customers. The vehicles are being delivered now to Oncor service centers across the area.

“Ensuring that our customers have reliable electrical service and our workers are safe requires vehicles that are dependable day after day and outfitted with the latest equipment that’s essential to doing our job,” said Derek Hoopman, Manager of Oncor’s fleet across North Texas.

Oncor closely monitors the condition of its field vehicles and then replaces them about every five to seven years, Hoopman said.

“These vehicles are built to handle a lot of long hours and thousands of miles in all kinds of conditions,” he said. “But we keep track of their condition because safety is always a priority for Oncor. That applies to all of the work we do and to all of our vehicles.”

This year, nearly half of the new vehicles are the 37-foot bucket trucks, the Oncor vehicles familiar to most people, Hoopman said.

“These are the work horses in the communities we serve,” he said. “They are out there making sure that our customers have electricity.”