SmartWay Excellence Awards

What's New for SmartWay Excellence Awards

The 2012 SmartWay Excellence Awards will be the first year that SmartWay is recognizing Partners' environmental performance based on the results of the newly enhanced quantification and reporting tools. SmartWay Carriers, Shippers and Logistics Partners are all now using the tools to do detailed reporting of their freight operations. This performance benchmarking helps to inform industry and the marketplace on freight operations' energy and environmental efficiency, supply chain carbon and emissions performance, and helps to optimize operations. The data also provides EPA an opportunity to look closely at Partners' CO2, NOx and PM emissions performance and identify the leaders in each partner category, so Partners do not need to apply or submit additional information.

EPA Criteria for 2012 SmartWay Excellence Awards

As part of EPA's goal to recognize top performers and create visibility for Partner achievements, the 2012 SmartWay Excellence Awards will be based on the data submissions from Partners in good standing. EPA is doing a thorough review of all Partnership data to determine which Partners are leaders in their category.

• Partners need not submit any application or partner nomination forms.
• No supplemental information or materials are needed from the Partners.
• EPA has all the information needed to assess Partner performance.

Top performing Partners which meet the criteria outlined below will be considered by EPA for an award and notified once a screening process is complete. The awardees will be announced at an industry event in fall 2012.

Shipper Partner awardees will:

1. Be a SmartWay Partner in good standing;
2. Use effectively 100% SmartWay Carriers to haul all US (and, as applicable, Canadian) goods;
3. Use inputs to the SmartWay Shipper Tool based on actual data such as miles or ton-miles for calendar year 2010, submitted to EPA in 2012; and
4. Demonstrate top environmental performance in each shipper category (defined below) based on g/ton-mile outputs from the SmartWay Shipper Tool.

Shipper categories:

• Large: Greater than 500 million total miles shipped
• Medium: Between 25 and 500 million miles shipped
• Small: Less than 25 million total miles shipped

Carrier Partner awardees will:

1. Be a SmartWay Partner in good standing;
2. Demonstrate top environmental performance in each carrier fleet category (defined below) based on g/ton-mile outputs from the SmartWay carrier tool, for calendar year 2011, submitted to EPA in 2012; and

Carrier categories:

At least one large and one small/medium carrier will be selected from each of the following ten fleet categories:

Truckload Dry Van	Drayage
Less-Than Truckload Dry Van	Tanker
Refrigerated	Specialized
Package	Mixed
Flatbed	Multimodal

Large: Fleets with vehicle miles traveled which are greater than or equal to 1 percent (5 percent for Multimodal) of the total vehicle miles traveled for that category

Small/Medium: Fleets with vehicle miles traveled which are less than 1 percent (5 percent for Multimodal) of the total vehicle miles traveled for that category

Logistics Partner awardees will:

1. Be a SmartWay Partner in good standing;
2. Use effectively 100% SmartWay Carriers to haul all US (and, as applicable, Canadian) goods;
3. Demonstrate top environmental performance based on g/ton-mile outputs from the SmartWay Logistics Tool, for calendar year 2010, submitted to EPA in 2011; and

Glossary of Excellence Awards Terms

• "Partner in good standing" refers to organizations that have joined the US EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership and comply with program requirements to submit annual data on their goods movement supply chains and commit to reduce the environmental footprint from this activity.
• "Effectively 100%" means 99.5% or better, to allow for seasonal changes or episodic fluctuations in carrier contracts.
• "Environmental performance" means an assessment which combines the Partner's CO2, NOx and PM, performance factors in a 50%-25%-25% (respectively) ratio.
• "Partner tools" refers to the EPA-provided, Agency peer reviewed assessment and tracking tools used in the SmartWay Transport Program to assess the energy, carbon and air pollutant footprints of a partner's freight activity in the US.

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.