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20 Trucking Operations Named HDT Top Green Fleets

Heavy Duty Trucking has honored 20 trucking operations as HDT Top Green Fleets for 2025 for their role in leading the industry in sustainability, from alternative fuels to top mpg to zero-emission vehicles.

Deborah Lockridge
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April 9, 2025
20 Trucking Operations Named HDT Top Green Fleets

HDT's Top Green Fleets pursue sustainability using a wide variety of strategies.

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Heavy Duty Trucking has honored 20 trucking operations as HDT Top Green Fleets for 2025.

These companies are leading the industry in sustainability, pursuing their “green” goals in areas such as fuel efficiency, alternative fuels, zero-emission options, and environmentally friendly facilities. 

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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 such as natural gas and renewable fuels

  • Using zero-emission trucks such as battery-electric or hydrogen fuel cell

  • Industry-leading fuel economy

  • Freight-efficiency strategies

  • Leading-edge “green” facilities

  • Sustainability goals

  • Willingness to share their experience with others

Special attention is given to initiatives in the past year and to plans for the coming year.

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HDT’s Top Green Fleets awards started in 2013. This year’s honorees are featured in the March/April print edition of Heavy Duty Trucking. Most of this year’s honorees have been named an HDT Top Green Fleet multiple times. 

Top Green Fleet All-Stars: 

First-time honorees include the DC Department of Public Works, King Fio Trucking, Talon Logistics, and WattEV.

The 2025 HDT Top Green Fleets, in alphabetical order, are:

4Gen Logistics, Rialto, California: This is the fourth year in a row for 4 Gen, and parent company Duncan & Sons was on the first Top Green Fleets list in 2013. 

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A Duie Pyle, West Chester, Pennsylvania: Third year in a row, 8 times overall.

Artur Express, Hazelwood, Missouri: This is the second time Artur Express has been honored.

D.B. Schenker U.S. Land Transport, West Memphis, Arkansas: Second year in a row; USA Truck, which Schenker acquired, was honored in 2018.

DC Department of Public Works, Washington, DC: First-time honoree

Detmar Logistics, San Antonio, Texas. Fifth year in a row

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FTC (Feed The Children) Transportation, Oklahoma City: This is the second time FTC Transportation has been honored, also appearing on the list in 2018.

King Fio Trucking, Long Beach, California: First-time honoree

Knight-Swift Transportation, Phoenix, Arizona: Fourth year in a row for Knight-Swift, 5 times overall. In addition, Knight Transportation and Swift were honored separately in 2016, and Knight in 2020, 2014 and 2013.

M&M Cartage, Louisville, Kentucky: Sixth year in a row, 11 times overall.

NFI, Camden, New Jersey: Eighth year in a row, 12 times overall.

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Nussbaum Transportation, Hudson, Illinois: Sixth year in a row, 12 times overall. 

Old Dominion Freight Line: Fourth year in a row, 5 times overall

Pitt Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: This is the fifth time Pitt Ohio has been an HDT Top Green Fleet. 

Ruan Transportation Management Systems, Des Moines, Iowa: This is the seventh time Ruan has been honored.

Schneider, Green Bay, Wisconsin: Third year in a row, 7 times overall.

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System Freight Inc., Jamesburg, New Jersey: Third year in a row, 9 times overall

Talon Logistics, Chino, California: First-time honoree

TCI Transportation, Commerce, California Fourth year in a row 

WattEV, Long Beach, California: First-time honoree

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