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