Eighteen carriers, five shippers, three logistics providers and an industry service group have been recognized for their environmental efforts with 2008 SmartWay Excellence Awards
Eighteen carriers, five shippers, three logistics providers and an industry service group have been recognized for their environmental efforts with 2008 SmartWay Excellence Awards.
The awards are given annually for “superior efforts to reduce fuel use and lower carbon emissions from freight transport” by the Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay Partnership. EPA established the SmartWay program in 2004 to help fleets and shippers evaluate ways to reduce emissions and to help find funding for new green transportation technology.
The 2008 carriers named as winners were:
American Central Transport
Celadon Trucking Services
Challenger Motor Freight
Con-way Freight
Covenant Transport
Dillon Transport
Gordon Trucking
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
NFI
Pacific Harbor Line
Quad/Graphics
Roehl Transport
Schneider National
Stan Koch & Sons Trucking
Swift Transportation
Trailer Bridge
UPS
Watkins Shepard Trucking.
Shipper award winners were:
HP
Kohl’s Department Stores
Kimberly-Clark
Lowes Companies
Sharp Electronics
APL Logistics, Hub Group and Transplace were the logistics companies given 2008 SmartWay Excellence Awards, as was Cascade Sierra Solutions, a service organization that helps fleets find funding for idling solutions and other emissions-cutting technology.
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