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SmartWay Excellence Awards

EPA’s SmartWay Excellence Awards recognize high performers that are leading the freight industry to a clean, efficient and more sustainable future.  The awards honor SmartWay partners that are helping set efficiency benchmarks for how shippers and their carriers are moving products and goods in the North American freight sector.   The SmartWay awards program typically gets underway in late spring for the upcoming year’s award event, which is usually held the following fall in conjunction with other key industry events.  For example, past award ceremonies have been hosted by the American Trucking Associations at its annual Management Conference and Exhibition and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals at its Annual Conference.  To receive partnership and awards updates, please subscribe to our SmartWay list serv. 

What's New for SmartWay Excellence Awards

2012 marks the first year that EPA is recognizing its SmartWay partners using the program's "second generation" suite of freight assessment and carbon tracking tools. During 2010 and 2011, EPA SmartWay and its partners upgraded all of the program's assessment and tracking tools with an improved system to quantify and benchmark the efficiency of moving goods.

These tools are now being used by all SmartWay partners, and this year's recognition is based on the first full year of partner performance, assessed using the new tools.

Based on data generated by the new tools, SmartWay's final awardees were selected with a set of awards criteria that identified top performers within their respective partner categories. Detailed information on the eligibility criteria used to select the 2012 SmartWay Excellence recipients is available here, SmartWay 2012 Awards Criteria (PDF) (EPA-420-F-12-066, October 2012, 2pp,115 K).

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2012 SmartWay Excellence Award Recipients

2012 SmartWay Shipper Awardees

Best Buy Company
HP
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
IKEA Distribution Services, NA
SC Johnson and Son, Inc. 
Sears Logistics Services, Inc.
Foremost Farms USA

 

2012 SmartWay Logistics Management Awardee

Sharp Freight Systems, Inc.

 

2012 SmartWay Truck Carrier Awardees

Fleet Category

Large Carriers

Medium/Small Carriers

Truck Load/Dry Van

Celadon Trucking Services, Inc.
Heartland Express, Inc. of Iowa
Knight Transportation, Inc.
Swift Transportation

Dart Transit Company
Mesilla Valley Transportation
Orlicks Inc.
Less than Truck Load/ Dry Van

New Century Transportation, Inc.
Walgreen Oshkosh Inc

Polaris Transport Carriers Inc
Refrigerated

C. R. England, Inc.
JBS Carriers, Inc.
Southern Refrigerated Transport, Inc.

Doug Andrus Distributing LLC
Prime Inc

Package

FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
Frito-Lay NA, Inc.

Air Ground Xpress, Inc
Specialized Lone Star Transportation, LLC Palletized Trucking Inc
Tanker Dupre’ Logistics, LLC Poland Spring Bottling
Flatbed Prime Inc Jules Savard Inc
Mixed

May Trucking Company
Ruan Transportation Management Systems

Dibble Trucking, Inc.
Lake Enterprises Ltd.

Dray Duncan and Son Lines, Inc. Pacific 9 Transportation, Inc.
Multimodal

J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.
Schneider National, Inc.

White Arrow LLC

2009 SmartWay Excellence Award Recipients

2009 Awards Program with Winner Profiles (PDF) (20 pp, 1.26M)

Truck Carriers
Bison Transport Inc.
C.R. England, Inc.
Celadon Trucking Services Inc.
Challenger Motor Freight Inc.
Covenant Transport, Inc.
Gordon Trucking Inc.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
Knight Transportation, Inc.
LTI Trucking Services, Inc.
MacKinnon Transport INC
Mesilla Valley Transportation
Quad/Graphics, Inc.
Roehl Transport, Inc.
Schneider National, Inc.
Stan Koch & Sons Trucking
States Logistics Services, Inc.
Swift Transportation Co.
UPS
U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc./Xpress Global Systems

Shippers

Best Buy Co., Inc.
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP 
JCPenney Co
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Kohl's Department Stores
Kraft Foods Global, Inc.
Limited Brands, Inc.
Lowe's Companies Inc
PepsiCo, Inc.
Sharp Electronics Corporation
Stonyfield Farm, Inc.
The Home Depot
USG Corporation

Logistics Companies

Hub Group, Inc.
Menlo Worldwide Logistics
Transplace

Affiliates
American Trucking Associations
Cascade Sierra Solutions

2008 SmartWay Excellence Award Recipients

Freight Carriers
American Central Transport, Inc
Celadon Trucking Services Inc.
Challenger Motor Freight Inc.
Con-way Freight
Covenant Transport, Inc.
Dillon Transport, Inc.
Gordon Trucking, Inc.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
NFI
Pacific Harbor Line, Inc.
Quad/Graphics
Roehl Transport, Inc.
Schneider National, Inc.
Stan Koch & Sons Trucking
Swift Transportation Company
Trailer Bridge, Inc.
UPS
Watkins Shepard Trucking, Inc.

Shippers
HP
Kohl's Department Stores
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Lowe’s Companies Inc.
Sharp Electronics Corporation

Logistics Companies
APL Logistics
Hub Group, Inc.
Transplace
Affiliates
Cascade Sierra Solutions

2007 SmartWay Excellence Award Recipients

Freight Carriers
Contract Freighters, Inc.
CSX Transportation
John Christner Trucking LLC
Knight Transportation, Inc.
Langford, Inc.
Meijer
Metropolitan Trucking, Inc.
Orlicks, Inc.
P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc.
Quad/Graphics, Inc.
Roehl Transport, Inc.
Schneider National, Inc.
Swift Transportation Co., Inc.
Smithfield Transportation Co., Inc.
Trans-Am Trucking, Inc.
Wal-Mart

Shippers
IBM
JCPenney
Johnson & Johnson Sales & Logistics Company, LLC
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Lowe’s Companies Inc.
Michelin North America, Inc.
Office Depot, Inc.
Sharp Electronics Corporation
STERIS Corporation

Logistics Companies
Alliance Shippers
Exel
Limited Brands Logistics
National Logistics Management Inc.

Affiliates
4 State Trucks
American Trucking Associations

2006 SmartWay Excellence Award Recipients

Truck Carriers
Bison Transport, Inc.
Contract Freighters, Inc.
Langford Inc.
New Century Transportation, Inc.
O & S Trucking, Inc.
Roehl Transport, Inc.
Schneider National, Inc.
YRC Worldwide, Inc.

Shippers
IKEA Distribution Services, North America
Interface, Inc.*
Owens Corning
Sharp Electronics Corporation

Logistics Companies
APL Logistics
Epes Logistics Services, Inc.
Meridian IQ*

Private Fleets
H-E-B
Quad/Graphics, Inc.
Smithfield Transportation Co., Inc.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Affiliates
Cascade Sierra Solutions*
Lane Regional Air Protection Agency*
Minnesota Trucking Association
New Jersey Motor Truck Association

* Indicates a joint award. Partners Interface, Inc. and Meridian IQ submitted a joint application as did affiliates Cascade Sierra Solutions and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency.

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