Introducing SmartWaySM Transport Partnership

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F r e i g h t S h i p p e r s

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WHY HAVE SO MANY INDUSTRY-LEADING

MANUFACTURERS AND RETAILERS JOINED THE

SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP?

BECAUSE...
The SmartWaySM Transport Partnership, an 

innovative collaboration between 

manufacturers, retailers, freight carriers, logistics 

companies and the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, helps companies build supply chain 

management strategies that integrate energy

efficiency, air quality, and climate change directly

into the transportation decision-making process.

Freight shippers join the SmartWay Transport

Partnership to better understand and evaluate their 

environmental performance and energy use, set

IMPROVEMENT GOALS, and take

measurable, concrete actions to reduce the impact 

of transportation on the environment and their 

businesses. These shippers commit to use SmartWay

Transport Carriers for 50% or more of their shipping

needs—resulting in more freight being transported by

freight carriers that are taking steps to reduce

fuel consumption and emissions.

Companies that join the SmartWay Transport

Partnership leadthe way towards a cleaner,

more sustainable transportation future while improving

their bottomline—a win-win for all.

SMARTWAY TRANSPORT

SHIPPERS GUIDE THE WAY TO

A CLEANER, GREENER AND

MORE SUSTAINABLE

TRANSPORTATION FUTURE

“

The SmartWay Transport

Partnership is completely in line

with our company objective to be

environmentally conscious. 

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Don Ostler, Fleet Manager 

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Corporate decision makers understand that socially responsible decision making and 

collaborations with suppliers to find more energy-efficient ways of doing business are good

for the bottom line. Integrating fuel-efficient transportation choices into your supply chain 

management strategy has multiple benefits:

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SMARTWAY TRANSPORT SHIPPERS

ARE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AND SAVVY...

Meet consumer and investor demands for social responsibility and 

environmental stewardship. Your customers are becoming more 

environmentally conscious. Increasingly, they are asking companies to

demonstrate their commitment to environmental and energy-efficiency 

initiatives. With fuel prices soaring, your customers want to know what 

you are doing to conserve energy and reduce greenhouse gases from 

transportation. As a SmartWay Transport Shipper Partner, you can 

analyze your transportation footprint using the Freight Logistics

Environmental and Economic Tracking – F.L.E.E.T. – Performance Model. 

This model allows you to calculate how much freight you ship with

SmartWay Transport Carriers, estimate the emissions and carbon impact

of your goods movement, and select carriers that can help you reduce your

transportation supply chain footprint.

Transform the marketplace for the better. When you become a SmartWay

Transport Shipper, you commit to shipping at least 50% of your products

with SmartWay Transport Carriers. That gives you an incredible chance to 

leverage your suppliers and increase their awareness of opportunities 

to conserve fuel and save money. SmartWay Transport Shippers transform 

the marketplace by encouraging their transportation suppliers to become

more efficient.

Build an efficient supply chain that saves money for you. A critical 

component of supply chain management is cutting costs. Wasted fuel costs

industry vast amounts of money each year. SmartWay Transport Carriers are

committed to reducing fuel costs for their businesses by adopting cuttingedge fuel-efficiency technologies and driver policies that make saving fuel

easy. So, when you ship with SmartWay Carriers, you are using the most

environmentally efficient and cost-effective carriers in the industry—and

that’s a smart business move.
SmartWay Transport offers 

opportunities to learn and lead

the way toward a clean 

transportation future.

Charles Butt, Chairman and CEO, HEB

SMARTWAY TRANSPORT SHIPPERS ARE

INNOVATORS IN SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION.

Progressive Commitment to 

Environmentally Sound Transport: IKEA 

In addition to innovative shipping practices such as flat

pack technologies and new pallet technology, which saves

packing space, weight, and wasted material, IKEA encourages its transportation service providers to join SmartWay.

Today, IKEA ships virtually 100% of its freight with

SmartWay Carrier and Logistics Partners.

Meeting Fuel-Efficiency Challenges at Facilities:

Sharp Electronics 

Sharp Electronics requires logistics companies to use

SmartWay Carriers to ship Sharp products, prohibits truck

idling at facilities, and ships 15% to 18% of their shipments

by rail. Other strategies include using electric forklifts and

keeping terminals open during the night to reduce idling.

Demonstrating Social Responsibility: Office Depot

Office Depot reduced its transportation footprint by shifting

some freight to intermodal transport, introducing batteryoperated forklifts at facilities, and purchasing nearly 300

ultra-low-emissionlocal distribution trucks that are 

40% more fuel efficient than larger, conventional trucks

for a savings of over 4.5 million gallons of fuel annually.

Greening the Light-Duty Fleet: Interface 

Creating a greener and cleaner light-duty fleet is an 

important aspect of Interface’s sustainability goals. 

To meet this challenge, Interface now requires all future 

vehicles leased by the company for their sales force to 

be SmartWay or SmartWay Elite certified vehicles.

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Here are just a few examples of SmartWay Transport Shippers

that are reducing their transportation footprint:

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Companies that make a 

commitment to reduce 

carbon have to do two things:

use less and be more 

efficient, and look for 

alternatives. Using less—

whether it is fuel, electricity,

or shipping miles—translates

into cost savings. If we buy

less fuel and use less 

electricity, we lower our 

costs—a reduction that helps

the bottom line.

Erin Kelly, Environmental Affairs

Manager, Interface, Inc.

SmartWay Shippers have implemented a number of strategies

to reduce their transportation footprint, including:

Intermodal Shipping: By combining the fuel-efficiency of rail

with the logistical strengths of trucking, shippers can reduce

fuel consumption, emissions, and costs of freight delivery. 

Driver Comfort Stations: Providing climate-controlled comfort

stations at dock facilities keeps drivers from idling their trucks

to stay warm or cool, saving fuel, reducing emissions and maintenance needs, and improving driver safety.

Preferential Loading and Unloading: Deliveries by SmartWay

Carriers may be given prime shipping and delivery times and

positions, and selected docks may be designated as

“SmartWay Transport Docks.”

Idle Reduction Policies: A shipper may implement a “No

Idling” policy for any truck that picks up or delivers freight to

its facilities. Combined with driver comfort stations, this

strategy provides drivers with an alternative to idling their

trucks while waiting.

Improved Pickup and Delivery Scheduling: Using enhanced

communications or logistics software can helps ensure full

truckloads, which not only improves efficiency, but also

helps reduce congestion on the roadways and at shipping

and receiving facilities.

Corporate Fleet Improvements: Replacing older light-duty

vehicles with more fuel-efficient (including flex fuel vehicles)

and lower-emitting vehicles reduces a company’s overall

environmental impact.

Warehouse Improvements: Shippers can explore any efficiency gains that might be made with improved storage and

warehouse logistics techniques.

Electric Forklifts: Electric forklifts are cleaner and more 

efficient to operate than diesel-powered forklifts, producing

no emissions at the facility, thus reducing environmental

impact and improving ambient air quality in and around

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SMARTWAY SHIPPERS REDUCE THEIR

TRANSPORTATION FOOTPRINT.
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We at Owens Corning have been active with the SmartWay

Partnership and will continue to take every opportunity to raise the

internal and external consciousness of this important program.”

John Gentle, Global Leader Transportation Affairs, Owens Corning (retired)

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We believe that cooperative initiatives, such as SmartWay 

Transport, are an important step toward measuring and reducing

our environmental ground transportation footprint.

”

Michael Bertolucci, Senior Vice President, Interface, Inc.

“Being a good steward of the environment and 

being an efficient and profitable business are not mutually 

exclusive. In fact they are one and the same.”

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

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HERE’S WHAT FLEET MANAGERS ARE SAYING

ABOUT SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP:

“Becoming a SmartWay Transport Partner really brought my group together

to brainstorm other ways of being more environmentally responsible.”

Mark Servidio, Vice President of Logistics & Supply Chain Planning, Sharp Electronics 

“SmartWay incorporates elements that we feel are consistent 

with how we approach our business and how we want our service

providers to approach things as well.

”

Sabina Strautman, Environmental Transport Manager, IKEA USA
MAKE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN CLEANER, 

MORE SUSTAINABLE, AND MORE PROFITABLE.

JOIN THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP.

As a SmartWaySMTransport Partner, you gain 

access to information and tools that help you to:

Reduce your transportation footprint

Save money with a more fuel-efficient supply chain 

Meet customer demands for corporate social responsibility 

Improve efficiency of your own operations

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP, 

VISIT WWW.EPA.GOV/SMARTWAY OR CALL 734.214.4767