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Introducing SmartWay™ Transport Partnership
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Freight Shippers
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U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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WHY HAVE So MANY INDUSTRY-LEADING
MANUFACTURERS AND RETAILERS JOINED THE
SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP?
BECAUSE...
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The SmartWay Transport
Partnership is completely in line
with our company objective to be
environmentally conscious.
Don Ostler, Fleet Manager
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
SMART WAY TRANSPORT
SHIPPERS GUIDE THE WAY TO
A CLEANER, GREENER AND
MORE SUSTAINABLE
TRANSPORTATION FUTURE
The SmartWay™ Transport Partnership, an
innovative collaboration between
manufacturers, retailers, freight carriers, logistics
companies and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, helps companies build supply chain
management strategies that integrate energy
efficiency, air quality, and climate change directly
into the transportation decision-making process.
Freight shippers join the SmartWay Transport
Partnership to better understand and evaluate their
environmental performance and energy use, set
IMPROVEMENT GOALS, and take
measurable, concrete actions to reduce the impact
of transportation on the environment and their
businesses. These shippers commit to use SmartWay
Transport Carriers for 50% or more of their shipping
needs— resulting in more freight being transported by
freight carriers that are taking steps to reQUCe
fuel COnSUmptiOn and emissions.
Companies that join the SmartWay Transport
partnership lead the way towards a cleaner,
more sustainable transportation future while improving
their bOttOITI Nne- a win-win for all.
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SMARTWAY TRANSPORT SHIPPERS
ARE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AND SAVVY...
Corporate decision makers understand that socially responsible decision making and
collaborations with suppliers to find more energy-efficient ways of doing business are good
for the bottom line. Integrating fuel-efficient transportation choices into your supply chain
management strategy has multiple benefits:
Meet consumer and investor demands for social responsibility and
environmental stewardship. Your customers are becoming more
environmentally conscious. Increasingly, they are asking companies to
demonstrate their commitment to environmental and energy-efficiency
initiatives. With fuel prices soaring, your customers want to know what
you are doing to conserve energy and reduce greenhouse gases from
transportation. As a SmartWay Transport Shipper Partner, you can
analyze your transportation footprint using the Freight Logistics
Environmental and Economic Tracking - F.LE.E.T. - Performance Model.
This model allows you to calculate how much freight you ship with
SmartWay Transport Carriers, estimate the emissions and carbon impact
of your goods movement, and select carriers that can help you reduce your
transportation supply chain footprint.
Transform the marketplace for the better. When you become a SmartWay
Transport Shipper, you commit to shipping at least 50% of your products
with SmartWay Transport Carriers. That gives you an incredible chance to
leverage your suppliers and increase their awareness of opportunities
to conserve fuel and save money. SmartWay Transport Shippers transform
the marketplace by encouraging their transportation suppliers to become
more efficient.
Build an efficient supply chain that saves money for you. A critical
component of supply chain management is cutting costs. Wasted fuel costs
industry vast amounts of money each year. SmartWay Transport Carriers are
committed to reducing fuel costs for their businesses by adopting cutting-
edge fuel-efficiency technologies and driver policies that make saving fuel
easy. So, when you ship with SmartWay Carriers, you are using the most
environmentally efficient and cost-effective carriers in the industry— and
that's a smart business move.
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SMARTWAY TRANSPORT SHIPPERS ARE
INNOVATORS IN SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION.
Here are just a few examples of SmartWay Transport Shippers
that are reducing their transportation footprint:
Progressive Commitment to
Environmentally Sound Transport: IKEA
In addition to innovative shipping practices such as flat
pack technologies and new pallet technology, which saves
packing space, weight, and wasted material, IKEA encour-
ages its transportation service providers to join SmartWay.
Today, IKEA ships virtually 100% of its freight with
SmartWay Carrier and Logistics Partners.
Meeting Fuel-Efficiency Challenges at Facilities:
Sharp Electronics
Sharp Electronics requires logistics companies to us<
SmartWay Carriers to ship Sharp products, prohibits true
idling at facilities, and ships 15% to 18% of their shipment
by rail. Other strategies include using electric forklifts and
keeping terminals open during the night to reduce idling.
Demonstrating Social Responsibility: Office Depot
Office Depot reduced its transportation footprint by shifting
some freight to intermodal transport, introducing battery-
operated forklifts at facilities, and purchasing nearly 300
ultra-low-emissionlocal distribution trucks that are
40% more fuel efficient than larger, conventional trucks
for a savings of over 4.5 million gallons of fuel annually.
Greening the Light-Duty Fleet: Interface
Creating a greener and cleaner light-duty fleet is an
important aspect of Interface's sustainability goals.
To meet this challenge, Interface now requires all future
vehicles leased by the company for their sales force to
be SmartWay or SmartWay Elite certified vehicles.
•• SmartWay Transport offers
opportunities to learn and lead
the way toward a clean
transportation future.'"
Charles Butt, Chairman and CEO, HEB
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SMARTWAY SHIPPERS REDUCE THEIR
TRANSPORTATION FOOTPRINT.
SmartWay Shippers have implemented a number of strategies
to reduce their transportation footprint, including:
Intermodal Shipping: By combining the fuel-efficiency of rail
with the logistical strengths of trucking, shippers can reduce
fuel consumption, emissions, and costs of freight delivery.
Driver Comfort Stations: Providing climate-controlled comfort
stations at dock facilities keeps drivers from idling their trucks
to stay warm or cool, saving fuel, reducing emissions and main-
tenance needs, and improving driver safety.
Preferential Loading and Unloading: Deliveries by SmartWay
Carriers may be given prime shipping and delivery times and
positions, and selected docks may be designated as
"SmartWay Transport Docks."
Idle Reduction Policies: A shipper may implement a "No
Idling" policy for any truck that picks up or delivers freight to
its facilities. Combined with driver comfort stations, this
strategy provides drivers with an alternative to idling their
trucks while waiting.
Improved Pickup and Delivery Scheduling: Using enhanced
communications or logistics software can helps ensure full
truckloads, which not only improves efficiency, but also
helps reduce congestion on the roadways and at shipping
and receiving facilities.
Corporate Fleet Improvements: Replacing older light-duty
vehicles with more fuel-efficient (including flex fuel vehicles)
and lower-emitting vehicles reduces a company's overall
environmental impact.
Warehouse Improvements: Shippers can explore any effi-
ciency gains that might be made with improved storage and
warehouse logistics techniques.
Electric Forklifts: Electric forklifts are cleaner and more
efficient to operate than diesel-powered forklifts, producing
no emissions at the facility, thus reducing environmental
impact and improving ambient air quality in and around
freight docking areas.
" Companies that make a
commitment to reduce
carbon have to do two things:
use less and be more
efficient, and look for
alternatives. Using less—
whether it is fuel, electricity,
or shipping miles—translates
into cost savings. If we buy
less fuel and use less
electricity, we lower our
costs—a reduction that helps
the bottom line. *
Erin Kelly, Environmental Affairs
Manager, Interface, Inc.
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HERE'S WHAT FLEET MANAGERS ARE SAYING
ABOUT SMARTWAY TRANS PORT PARTNERSHIP:
We at Owens Corning have been 3CtlV6 with the SmartWay
Partnership and will continue to take every Opportunity to raise the
internal and external consciousness of this important program.
John Gentle, Global Leader Transportation Affairs, Owens Corning (retired)
'SmartWay incorporates elements that we feel are Consistent
with how we approach our business and how we want our S6TVIC6
providers to approach things as well.
Sabina Strautman, Environmental Transport Manager, IKEA USA
We believe that Cooperative initiatives, such as SmartWay
Transport, are an important step toward measuring and reducing
our environmental ground transportation footprint."
Michael Bertolucci, Senior Vice President, Interface, Inc.
Being a good steward of the environment and
being an efficient and profitable business are not mutually
exclusive. In fact they are one and the same.
Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart
Becoming a SmartWay Transport Partner really brought my group tOQether
to brainstorm other ways of being more environmentally responsible."
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MAKE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN CLEANER,
MORE SUSTAINABLE, AND MORE PROFITABLE.
JOIN THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP.
As a SmartWayTransport Partner, you gain
access to information and tools that help you to:
PI Reduce your transportation footprint
Save money with a more fuel-efficient supply chain
^v Meet customer demands for corporate social responsibility
x Improve efficiency of your own operations
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP,
VISIT WWW.EPA.GOV/SMARTWAY OR CALL 734.214.4767
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Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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MAKE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN CLEANER,
MORE SUSTAINABLE, AND MORE PROFITABLE.
JOIN THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP.
As a SmartWayTransport Partner, you gain
access to information and tools that help you to:
PI Reduce your transportation footprint
Save money with a more fuel-efficient supply chain
^v Meet customer demands for corporate social responsibility
x Improve efficiency of your own operations
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP,
VISIT WWW.EPA.GOV/SMARTWAY OR CALL 734.214.4767
$
Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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MAKE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN CLEANER,
MORE SUSTAINABLE, AND MORE PROFITABLE.
JOIN THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP.
As a SmartWayTransport Partner, you gain
access to information and tools that help you to:
PI Reduce your transportation footprint
Save money with a more fuel-efficient supply chain
^v Meet customer demands for corporate social responsibility
x Improve efficiency of your own operations
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP,
VISIT WWW.EPA.GOV/SMARTWAY OR CALL 734.214.4767
$
Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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MAKE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN CLEANER,
MORE SUSTAINABLE, AND MORE PROFITABLE.
JOIN THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP.
As a SmartWayTransport Partner, you gain
access to information and tools that help you to:
PI Reduce your transportation footprint
Save money with a more fuel-efficient supply chain
^v Meet customer demands for corporate social responsibility
x Improve efficiency of your own operations
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP,
VISIT WWW.EPA.GOV/SMARTWAY OR CALL 734.214.4767
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Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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