SmartWay  and   Small  Business
         SmartWay*
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, has
produced an on-line driver training fuel economy course that is available
free of charge to partners in both programs. To access the SmartDriver
E-learning portal, jointly developed by EPA and NRCan to provide in-depth
training on fuel efficient driving techniques, please sign up and log in at:
http://fleetsmartlearning.nrcan.gc.ca/Saba/Web/Main
                                    For more information http://www.epa.gov/smartway/
                     U.S. EPA SmartWay |  EPA-420-F-13-013 |  www.epa.gov/smartway

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