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The 2018 SmartWay Excellence Award program for shippers, logistics companies and freight carriers 

is a recognition program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay Transport 

Partnership. SmartWay is a voluntary, market-driven partnership that aims to reduce emissions and 

foster the development of a clean and efficient freight supply chain. 

Through the SmartWay Excellence Award program, EPA recognizes leading shippers, logistics 

companies and freight carriers that are optimizing the environmental performance and efficiency of 

their freight operations, while serving as role models for other businesses to follow. This year we are 

recognizing 54 companies (twelve shippers, two logistics companies, seven multi-modal and thirtythree truck carriers) with a 2018 SmartWay Excellence Award. This represents about the top 1 to 2 

percent of all SmartWay Partners. 

The 2018 SmartWay Award recognition is based on partners demonstrating superior performance 

using SmartWay’s second generation environmental assessment system for transportation supply 

chains. This enhanced system includes a full suite of performance-based SmartWay tools and 

benchmarking software that enable each SmartWay Partner to complete a thorough assessment of its 

goods movement and freight activity. Partners also receive a set of comprehensive and detailed reports 

on their company’s environmental performance and operational efficiency. 

EPA identified the top 2018 SmartWay Excellence Award recipients from among all shippers, logistics 

and carrier businesses that participate in SmartWay, are partners in good standing and that provided 

prior-year performance data to EPA using SmartWay tools. 

Candidates in SmartWay’s shipper and logistics management categories were evaluated based on their 

impact, size and commitment to using high-performing SmartWay freight carriers. In 2018, eligible 

shippers and logistics companies were partners in good standing and used real world data to complete 

their SmartWay shipper and logistics management tools. The selected candidates achieved a superior 

level of environmental performance and the highest level of efficiency within SmartWay by 

demonstrating that they ship more goods per mile, more efficiently, using higher performing 

SmartWay carrier Partners. 

Candidates in SmartWay’s freight carrier category were evaluated based on their efficiency and 

environmental performance in moving products and merchandise. In 2018, eligible carriers included 

large and medium-to-small companies that are partners in good standing within key business sectors, 

including: truckload, less-than-truckload, refrigerated, package, specialized, expedited, tanker, flatbed, 

mixed, dray, heavy haul, auto-carrier, moving, barge and multimodal freight operations. Within these 

respective fleet characterizations and based on their size, these carriers achieved a superior level of 

environmental performance and the highest level of efficiency within SmartWay by demonstrating 

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that they carry more goods per ton-mile, using less fuel and emitting fewer greenhouse gas and air 

pollutant emissions. 

SmartWay Shipper and Logistics Company Awards 

The 2018 SmartWay Excellence Award for shippers and logistics management companies honor 

partners that are helping build a market for clean and efficient freight transportation by shipping 

virtually all of their products and merchandise (98 % of miles or ton-miles for shippers and 80% of 

miles or ton-miles for logistics partners) with high-performing SmartWay carriers. SmartWay shipper 

and logistics Award winners also were selected based on achieving superior environmental and 

efficiency benchmarks among all other SmartWay Partners. These performance benchmarks for 

shippers and logistics partners were derived through an assessment of their carriers’ carbon dioxide 

(CO2), particulate matter (PM), and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions measured in grams per mile. 

Within the shipper and logistics management categories, EPA proudly recognizes twelve of its 

shippers and two of its logistics partners as recipients of a 2018 SmartWay Excellence Award. These 

shipper and logistics Award winners are congratulated for their achievements in choosing to work 

with high-performing SmartWay freight carriers and finding ways to move more goods, more tonmiles using less fuel and emitting fewer emissions. They are SmartWay’s top performing shipper and 

logistics partners and include large, medium and small firms that move a broad range of products and 

merchandise. 

Shipper Awards 

EPA selected these twelve SmartWay shipper Award recipients because they are the top environmental 

performers and industry leaders. These shippers were selected from part of a larger pool of semifinalist candidates using the (SmartWay 2018 Awards Criteria (February 2018, EPA-420-F-18-002, 

February 2018). The semi-finalists competed in large and medium/small mileage categories to 

demonstrate leadership actions that support SmartWay environmental goals. The Award winners were 

selected by EPA based on their achievements in the areas of: effective collaboration, advanced technology and 

operational practices, a robust system to validate and report their SmartWay data, and communications and public 

outreach efforts. 

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SmartWay’s 2018 large shipper Award winners, moving more goods more than 500 million miles 

annually include: HP Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Lowe' s Companies, Inc., Microsoft, Medtronic 

PLC, and Whirlpool Corporation. 

SmartWay’s 2018 medium shipper Award winners, moving goods between 25 and 500 million miles 

annually are: General Motors North America, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, LEDVANCE 

LLC., Meijer, and Nordstrom Inc. 

SmartWay’s 2018 small shipper Award winner, moving goods fewer than 25 million miles annually is: 

Bacardi USA, Inc. 

Logistics Awards 

EPA selected these two SmartWay logistics Award winners because they are the top environmental 

performers and industry leaders. These logistics Partners were selected from part of a larger pool of 

semi-finalist candidates using the SmartWay 2018 Awards Criteria ( (PDF) (2 pp, 624K, EPA-420-F18-002, February 2018). All semi-finalists competed in large and medium/small mileage categories to 

demonstrate leadership actions that support SmartWay environmental goals. These logistics Award 

winners were selected by EPA based on their achievements in the areas of: effective collaboration, advanced 

technology and operational practices, a robust system to validate and report their SmartWay data, and communications 

and public outreach efforts. 

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The 2018 logistics management Award recipients demonstrated superior performance and effectively 

moved 80% of all the goods managed using only SmartWay carriers. 

SmartWay’s 2018 large logistics management Award winners, moving goods more than 200 million 

miles annually include: Armada. 

SmartWay’s 2018 medium logistics management award winners, moving goods more than 200 million 

miles annually include: Transplace. 

Recognition Ceremony 

The annual SmartWay Excellence Award honors top carrier, shipper and logistics companies that are 

setting efficiency benchmarks in how they move products and supplies. Shipper and logistics partners 

will be recognized as SmartWay Excellence Award recipients: 

Monday, October 1, 2018 

CSCMP 2018 EDGE Supply Chain Conference and Exhibition 

Gaylord Opryland 

Exhibition Hall C1/C2 

1:30 PM CDT – 2 PM CDT 

Nashville, Tennessee 

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