Things you will hear and smell at Hallie Dantzler’s coffee truck:
A barista offering you a vanilla shot with your latte. Locally roasted coffee beans wafting your way on the steam emanating from the espresso machine.
Things you will not hear and smell:
Bellowing gasoline generators or acrid petroleum fumes.
Dantzler dumped two loud, odiferous gasoline generators and adopted $19,000 in clean-running battery packs to run Hal’s Coffee trailer, with the help of an 80% grant from the Regional Air Quality Council.
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