HDT Announces 2024 Top Green Fleets
Heavy Duty Trucking has honored 15 trucking operations as HDT Top Green Fleets for 2024 in recognition of their leadership in sustainability.
August 7, 2024
Trucking fleets are honored for their sustainability efforts with HDT Top Green Fleet awards.
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Heavy Duty Trucking has honored 15 trucking operations as HDT Top Green Fleets for 2024. These companies are leading the industry in sustainability, using tactics and strategies such as fuel efficiency and freight efficiency, alternative fuels, zero-emission options, and “green” facilities.
Each year, HDT’s editors put out a call for nominations and fleet submissions to be considered for HDT Top Green Fleet honors. We comb through those submissions and look at factors such as:
- Adoption of alternative fuels and powertrains
- Industry-leading fuel economy
- Freight-efficiency strategies
- Leading-edge “green” facilities
- Sustainability goals
- Willingness to share their experience with others
- Other “green” awards received
- Plans for the coming year
HDT’s Top Green Fleets awards started in 2013. They are featured in the July/August print issue of HDT; watch Truckinginfo for more details about each fleet’s sustainability efforts.
NFI and Nussbaum tie for the overall highest number of HDT Top Green Fleet honors, with 11 each, followed by M&M Cartage at 10.
The 2024 Top Green Fleets, in alphabetical order, are:
4 Gen Logistics/Duncan and Sons, Rialto, California, 3 consecutive years, plus Duncan & Sons in 2013
A. Duie Pyle, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 2 consecutive years, 9 overall
Averitt Express, Cookeville, Tennessee, 2 consecutive years, 3 overall
DB Schenker Land US, West Memphis, Arkansas. This is the first year as a Top Green Fleet for D.B. Schenker, but USA Truck, which Schenker acquired, was honored in 2018.
Detmar Logistics, San Antonio, Texas, 4 consecutive years
Knight-Swift Transportation, Phoenix, Arizona, 3 consecutive years, 7 overall (counting Knight and Swift before merger)
M&M Cartage, Louisville, Kentucky, 5 consecutive years, 10 overall
NFI, Camden, New Jersey, 7 consecutive years, 11 overall
Nussbaum Transportation, Hudson, Illinois, 5 consecutive years, 11 overall
Old Dominion Freight Line, Thomasville, North Carolina, 3 consecutive years, 4 overall
Paper Transport,De Pere, Wisconsin, 4 overall
Schneider, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 2 consecutive years, 6 overall
System Freight, Jamesburg, New Jersey, 2 consecutive years, 8 overall
TCI Transportation, Commerce, California, 3 consecutive years
Werner Enterprises, Omaha, Nebraska, 3 consecutive years, 4 overall
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