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Profile: Knight Transportation, Inc.
Phoenix, Arizona
Winner,
2007 SmartWay Excellence Award
Knight Transportation, Inc. is a truckload carrier offering dry van, refrigerated, and brokerage services to customers through a growing network of 36 service centers located throughout the United States.
As a SmartWay partner, Knight Transportation continues its longstanding commitment
to the efficient use of our nation’s energy resources. This commitment
is illustrated through a strong company culture of fuel economy management,
coupled with a constant search for cost-effective, fuel saving technologies.
Knight has also illustrated national leadership and environmental commitment
by being at the forefront in testing and implementing clean burning, low emissions
engines throughout its fleet. These efforts, combined with extensive Driving
Associate training, investment in idle reduction technologies, equipment specification
optimization, and tire pressure management are all key to Knight’s business
plan.
“Knight Transportation views the SmartWay Transport Partnership as a positive force in promoting and recognizing the trucking industry’s environmental efforts. With significant technology investments and the track record of environmental improvements that have followed, our industry cannot afford to let past perceptions linger in the minds of our nation’s lawmakers or in the minds of the motoring public.”
David R. Williams
Vice President Equipment and Maintenance