Emissions & Efficiency

FO, TCA to host free “going green” webinar

June 22, 2010

Creating sustainability programs that really deliver benefits can be a challenge, even for fleets ready and willing to go green. Creating collaborative sustainability programs, when the shipper is initiating the action, can be tougher still

Wendy Leavitt

To help fleets go the green distance and leverage the benefits for themselves and their customers, FleetOwner and Truckload Carriers Asscn. have teamed up to produce a new webcast called: The Multiplier Effect: Leveraging the Benefits of Going Green Inside and Outside Your Company.

The event is sponsored by BSM Wireless and participants may join it live on Tuesday, June 29 at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

The webcast will feature three guest speakers:Mark Zunti, fleet management director for Canadian National Railroad’s nearly 4,600 truck fleet and head of maintenance for its intermodal operation; Wayne Scott, sr. director of transport maintenance for grocery giant, Loblaw; and Jason Mathers, project manager, corporate partnerships for Environmental Defense Fund, which has been actively supporting fleet efforts to enhance fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.

The speakers will share information, examples and practical suggestions on:

Innovative sustainability programs that go far beyond the obvious to deliver bottom line results
The expanding role of supply chain “anchor” companies in driving and supporting sustainability initiatives that deliver benefits to everyone
How today’s new fleet environmental stewardship executives are changing the competitive transportation landscape for everyone and what that means for your future
Creating collaborative sustainability programs both inside and outside your company

For more information on the webcast or to register to attend, click here.

About the Author

Wendy Leavitt

Wendy Leavitt joined Fleet Owner in 1998 after serving as editor-in-chief of Trucking Technology magazine for four years.

She began her career in the trucking industry at Kenworth Truck Company in Kirkland, WA where she spent 16 years—the first five years as safety and compliance manager in the engineering department and more than a decade as the company’s manager of advertising and public relations. She has also worked as a book editor, guided authors through the self-publishing process and operated her own marketing and public relations business.

Wendy has a Masters Degree in English and Art History from Western Washington University, where, as a graduate student, she also taught writing.