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How to Factor Sustainability into Carrier Procurement
As a Shipper, your choice of freight carrier includes criteria like reliability,
safety, expertise, customer service, and price.
EPA's SmartWay Transport Partnership can help you establish another
important metric in your procurement process: sustainability. SmartWay
provides easy-to-use tools, information, and standards—at no cost—to
measure, benchmark, and improve the environmental performance of
freight carriers, 3PI_s, and other transportation providers.
All registered SmartWay Partners agree to measure the energy use and
emissions from their fleets—an important data set if you want to make
sustainability a factor in your choice of transportation providers.
Here are a few steps you can take.
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STEP l:
SHOW THAT SUSTAINABILITY
IS A PRIORITY
Sustainability and efficiency go hand in hand. With so much focus on
rates and service, freight carriers may presume that energy efficiency
and emissions aren't important—unless you tell them. Educate
prospective carriers about your corporate values and sustainability
goals, and let them know sustainability is a priority. Make freight
efficiency part of the conversation and engage your carriers on what
they are doing to improve.

STEP 2:
INCENTIVIZE EFFICIENCY
ACROSS YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN
Tell your carriers about SmartWay and ask them to join. SmartWay
can supercharge carrier relations, and will open up a dialogue on the
benefits of freight efficiency in the supply chain, helping you get more
from your carrier selection and management. SmartWay resources
make it easy to simplify incorporating SmartWay participation into your
RFP and transportation service agreements. SmartWay educational
and outreach materials further encourage carrier participation.
SmartWay provides free tools to
measure and benchmark sustainability
Share your corporate values
and educate your carriers
Supercharge your supply chain
EPA-420-F-18-005 | August 2018 | SmartWay Transport Partnership | epa.gov/smartway
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How to Factor Sustainability into Carrier Procurement (continued)
STEP 3:
EVALUATE YOUR
CARRIERS
As you evaluate carriers, check their SmartWay ranking. More than 2,800 trucking,
rail, barge, and air freight carriers are registered with SmartWay. The list of carriers
is online at www.epa.gov/smartway/smartway-carrier-performance-ranking
and can be easily sorted by company name, fleet type, and performance. The
data and rankings make it easier to identify greener, more efficient carriers.
Once your carriers are on board, they'll have access to valuable information and
assistance—from a Partner account manager to online fuel-efficient driver training,
webinars featuring their peers and industry leaders, and technical fact sheets. They'll
appreciate this opportunity to save more fuel, improve efficiency, and cut emissions.
STEP 4:
BECOME A REGISTERED SMARTWAY
SHIPPER PARTNER
The SmartWay Partner logo is a visible way to promote your commitment
to a more efficient supply chain and cleaner environment. It's another signal
to your customers and shareholders that your company is doing its part.
As a shipper, the SmartWay brand can help you identify transportation
Partners that share your goals—and help SmartWay Partner carriers find
you too. You can also leverage the network of SmartWay Partners to
find like-minded 3PLS, consolidators, and other businesses who want
to share capacity and move goods more efficiently.
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STEP 5:
PROMOTE SMARTWAY
TO YOUR VENDORS
Freight carriers that deliver goods downstream aren't the only source of freight
emissions. Vendors that bring supplies and materials inbound to your facilities
generate freight emissions upstream in your supply chain.
These suppliers and their carriers are part of your procurement process, and their
emissions and fuel data would give you a more complete picture of your supply
chain's environment performance. Encourage them to support your sustainability
goals, reap the benefits of cleaner freight transportation, and become SmartWay
Partners too.
More than
carriers are registered
with SmartWay
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Getting There With Cleaner Air
Leverage your business
with the SmartWay brand
Encourage your vendors to
become SmartWay Partners
ABOUT U.S. EPA SMARTWAY
SmartWay is a market-driven initiative that empowers businesses to
move freight in the cleanest, most energy-efficient way possible. It
provides shippers and carriers with the tools and support they need
to track, document, and share information about transport modes,
equipment, and operational strategies that can reduce fuel use and
emissions across the supply chain.
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Transport Partnership
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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