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Profile: USXpress Enterprises, Inc.
Chattanooga, TN
USXpress Enterprises, Inc., the nation’s fifth-largest publicly-traded truckload carrier, uses advanced technologies for freight management and equipment operation. The company’s services include long-haul and regional truckload freight; time-critical expedited freight; multi-modal service; air freight ground transport service; floor covering logistics; and dedicated contract carriage.
US Xpress' pledge to protect the environment and maximize productivity is realized through the following programs and technologies:
- Road speed limit policies
- Automated fuel router system
- Automated load planning and dispatch system
- True GPS dual-mode satellite communication system (intended to enhance customer load status information, improve routing, and conserve fuel)
- Full aerodynamic packages for tractors – trailer test program underway
- Application-specific fuel efficient tires
- Wide-based tires on all new over the road tractors and trailers placed in service beginning 2006
- Engine controller based fuel incentive program, designed to promote maximum fuel economy performance
- Test and evaluation of in-cab stand-alone heating systems
- Automated manual transmissions with intelligent shift logic
- Society of Automotive Engineers / Technology and Maintenance Council of the American Trucking Association-sanctioned field operational fuel tests for evaluating fuel efficiency performance of components and strategies
- 2005 or later engines utilized in 90 percent of fleet
- 256 EPA 2007 compliant engines in service
- Test program beginning January 2008 for EPA 2010 compliant engines
- Test program beginning January 2008 of EAPU systems
"Serving the industry since 1986, US Xpress has always striven to
provide safe and efficient services to our customers, while protecting our
resources, the environment, and those with whom we share the nation’s
highways. It is our belief that membership in the SmartWay program will assist
in furthering those efforts to provide even greater societal benefits in
the future."
Marty Fletcher
Director of Technology/Equipment Research and Development, US Xpress