SmartWay and Small Business
Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
As a small motor carrier
business owner, I know first
hand how fuel costs affect my
bottom line. So I look for what
works for me. That's why I am
a SmartWay partner, and a
member of NASTC and OOIDA.
SmartWay & these associations
help small trucking companies
like me save fuel and money.
It also helps me - a guy with
3 trucks - market myself to
customers looking for greener
trucking companies. Like any
small business owner, I have
to wear a lot of different hats
- from sales to operations to
finance. So I appreciate how
SmartWay saves me time and
money with free business help
including online calculators,
and technical and financial
assistance. With the price of
diesel going up, up, up, the only
way I can raise salaries is to
use less fuel, and attract more
business. SmartWay helps me
do just that. Thanks, SmartWay!'
Daniel Marshall, Owner
D&J 'XPress LLC, MC 7O9935
SmartWay Transport Partnership is a strong government/industry
collaboration between freight shippers, carriers, and logistics companies
to voluntarily achieve improved fuel efficiency and reduce environmental
impacts from freight transport. Participating companies benchmark their
current freight operations, identify technologies and strategies to reduce
their carbon emissions, track emissions reductions and project future
improvement.
SmartWay Small Business Partners. The SmartWay Transport
Partnership includes hundreds of companies and associations committed to
improving fuel efficiency. SmartWay welcomes trucking fleets of all sizes as
partners.
60% of SmartWay's carrier partners are medium and small sized fleets
with 100 or fewer trucks.
25% of SmartWay carrier partners are owner-operators, or fleets that
operate 20 or fewer trucks.
Beneficial to Small Businesses. SmartWay is especially helpful to small
and medium sized trucking companies and owner-operators. EPA staff offer
technical assistance and information, that might otherwise be inaccessible, to
all inquirers via email, the SmartWay website, and the SmartWay call center.
Visibility. EPA identifies every SmartWay partner on its website and
recognizes partners that are eligible and licensed to use the SmartWay
partner logo. Visibility is equally provided to SmartWay fleet carriers,
regardless of size, giving carriers a significant marketing advantage.
Low-cost/ No-cost Fuel Saving Solutions. SmartWay promotes
operational practices, such as logistics optimization and reduced idling,
that any fleet can use. These low-cost and no-cost strategies are especially
beneficial to smaller trucking fleets and are included in SmartWay's
assessment of fleet performance.
SmartWay Offers On-line Driver Training. Driver training programs
can help trucking companies, regardless of fleet size, save fuel and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by increasing driver skills, knowledge, and
performance. A driver training program that improves fuel economy by
five percent could save over $3,000 in fuel costs and eliminate eight metric
tons of greenhouse gas emissions per truck each year. EPA SmartWay, in
conjunction with Natural Resources Canada's FleetSmart program, have
produced an on-line driver training fuel economy course that will be available
free of charge to partners in both programs. The course is expected to launch
later this year.
SmartWay Innovative Financing Assists Small Businesses. Several
SmartWay verified technologies not only reduce emissions, but save
fuel and money. These technologies can reduce operating costs for both
owner-operators and small fleets, resulting in shorter pay back periods for
investments in verified technologies. However, it can be challenging for many
small businesses to secure capital needed for technology retrofits and truck
replacements.
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The SmartWay Finance Program, through its grant recipients, assists small trucking businesses by providing access low-cost
financing for SmartWay verified technologies and clean trucks.
Technology Retrofits. The following grantees offer financing for SmartWay Verified Technologies:
Cascade Sierra Solutions
Technologies Financed: Idle Reduction, Aerodynamics, Low-Rolling
Resistance Tires
Program Type: Low-Cost Loans, Rebates (APUs & Aerodynamics)
Contact Information:
Phone: 866-345-3390
Website: www.cascadesierrasolutions.org
Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association Foundation
Technologies Financed: Auxiliary Power Units
Program Type: Rebates
Contact information:
Phone: 816-229-5791
Website: www.ooida.com/OOIDA%20Foundation/index.html
Community Development Transportation Lending Services
Technologies Financed: Idle Reduction
Program Type: Low-Cost Loans
Contact information:
Phone:202-415-9682
Website: http://webl.ctaa.org/webmodules/webarticles/
anmviewer.asp?a=53&z=36
Truck Replacement Programs. The following organizations offer financing for eligible truck replacements.
Cascade Sierra Solutions
Program Type: Low-Cost Loans
Geographic Area: Nationwide
Contact information:
Phone: 866-345-3390
Website: www.cascadesierrasolutions.org
Community Development Transportation Lending Services
Program Type: Low-Cost Loans
Geographic Area: Nationwide
Contact Information:
Phone:202-415-9682
Website: http://webl.ctaa.org/webmodules/webarticles/
anmviewer.asp?a=53&z=36
Houston-Galveston Area Council
Program Type: Low-Cost Loans
Geographic Area: Drayage trucks operating in the Houston-
Galveston, Texas area
Contact Information:
Phone: 832-681-2588
Website: www.h-gac.com/taq/airquality/drayageloans/default.aspx
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Program Type: Low-Cost Loans (Loan Guarantees)
Geographic Area: Southeastern U.S.
Contact Information:
Phone: Anne Blair, Clean Diesel Program Manager - 404-373-5832
Website: www.rushgogreen.com/CtrlViewer.aspxFuri=home.promo2.pdf
Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association
Program Type: Rebates
Geographic Area: Drayage trucks operating at Mid-Atlantic ports
(VA,MD,PA,and DE)
Contact Information:
Phone:443-901-1882
Website: www.efc.umd.edu/cleandiesel.html
For more information http://www.epa.gov/smartway/or call 734-214-4767.
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