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Profile: Averitt Express
Cookeville, TN
Annual Revenue: Annual revenues in excess of $650 million
Number of employees: Averitt Express employs 6,000 people at more than 85 facilities throughout North America
Averitt Express is one of the nation’s leading providers of global freight transportation and supply chain management. Averitt’s transportation services include less-than-truckload; truckload; time-critical ground; domestic airfreight; ocean less-than-container load and full-container load; and global airfreight. Averitt's supply chain management services include customized pool distribution, consolidation, warehousing, and port management services, as well as outsourced services such as facility operations, dedicated fleet operations, transportation network design and operation, and complete transportation management.
Averitt’s commitment to protecting our environment, including support for the SmartWaySM program, has been demonstrated through the following steps:
- Purchasing tractors with engines that are more fuel efficient and reduce diesel fuel emissions
- Researching and testing innovate tires what are specially designed to keep inflation at the proper PSI, thus increasing fuel efficiency
- Installing sophisticated electronic technology to gather data from tractor engine computers to track and measure fuel efficiency
- Participating in automated vehicle identification program that allows drivers to bypass designated weigh stations subsequently reducing unnecessary tractor idling and improving roadway safety
- Providing drivers access to a roadside service that enables drivers to reduce tractor idling when parked for rest stops and other extended periods of time
- Educating our workforce, including more than 3,000 truck drivers, on steps that can be taken to increase fuel efficiency, reduce engine idling, and improve processes that impact the environment
- Fostering an atmosphere where customers, associates, vendors, and the general public can conduct an open dialogue on areas of improvement in terms of environmental protection
- Utilizing underground fuel storage tanks and electronic fueling overflow detection devices at our facilities
- Planning driver routes as efficiently as possible to reduce power unit road mileage while dealing with rising ton-mileage
- Complying with, and in most cases exceeding, all federal environmental requirements
"Averitt Express understands that the future of our world rests on the investments we make to care for the resources of today. Whether that manifests itself as following safe driving and freight handling procedures or fulfilling our obligation to protect the environment through avenues such as EPA’s Smartway program, Averitt Express is answering the future’s call."
Scott Wolf
Vice President of Corporate Services, Averitt Express