BEST Award winner, 2011 – Products and Services
B-Line partners with companies to handle their urban core delivery needs. We eliminate the inefficiency and difficulty of taking semis, box trucks, and cargo vans into the downtown grid to deliver goods. We use commercial, heavy-duty, electric-assist trike trucks that have 55 cubic feet and 800 pounds of carrying capacity to take these relatively small loads of a wide variety of products into the urban core. Through our B-share program, we leverage our existing business model of seven or more round trips daily in downtown Portland to various grocers and restaurants to glean surplus food and deliver it to nonprofit partners such as Sisters Of The Road, Portland Rescue Mission, and Blanchet House.
- Trike trucks covered more than 12,000 pedal-powered miles and moved over 400,000 pounds of products carbon free since 2009
- Innovative hybrid technology of pedal-power and electric assist enables loads up to 800 lbs to be carried throughout the day within the urban core
- Replacing conventional trucks reduces road congestion, CO2 emissions, and pollution
- Local sourcing of wheels and cargo boxes, and currently developing a complete local manufacturing model for vehicles
- Consolidating multiple client deliveries eliminates two traditional delivery vehicles
- Glean surplus food from food purveyor clients and deliver it to nonprofit partners such as Sisters Of The Road, Portland Rescue Mission, and Blanchet House
- Delivered over 25,000 lbs of food (the equivalent of 19,230 meals) since launching the B-Share program in July 2010
