Heavy Duty Trucking magazine has announced its Top 50 Green Fleets for 2016, trucking companies that are leading the industry in the adoption of green, sustainable practices, policies, and technologies.
HDT Announces Top 50 Green Fleets of 2016
Heavy Duty Trucking magazine has announced its Top 50 Green Fleets for 2016, trucking companies that are leading the industry in the adoption of green, sustainable practices, policies, and technologies.
by Staff
November 14, 2016
2 min to read
The Top 50 Green Fleets are chosen by HDT’s editors. Candidates for the award are nominated online or found through gathering publicly available information, such as websites, case studies, and news reports.
Honorees include companies of all types and sizes. There are government fleets, private fleets, for-hire fleets, and truckload, less-than-truckload, vocational and delivery fleets. Some fleets have fewer than 50 trucks, others have more than 5,000, but all fleets have made a commitment to green, sustainable operations. That may include alternative fuels, top fuel mileage and freight efficiency for lower greenhouse gas emissions, energy-saving facilities, recycling programs, etc.
Here are the Top 50 Green Fleets for 2016, presented in alphabetical order:
A. Duie Pyle West Chester, Pennsylvania
Altom Transport Hammond, Indiana
AmeriPride Services Minnetonka, Minnesota
B&B Trucking Kalamazoo, Michigan
Carbon Express Wharton, New Jersey
Cargo Transporters Claremont, North Carolina
City of Columbus Columbus, Ohio
City of Long Beach Long Beach, California
Cooper Freight Memphis, Tennessee
Dillon Transport Burr Ridge, Illinois
FCA Transport Detroit, Michigan
FedEx Memphis, Tennessee
Frito-Lay Plano, Texas
Garner Trucking Findlay, Ohio
Groupe Robert Rougemont, Quebec
Hawaii Electric Light Hilo, Hawaii
Halvor Lines Superior, Wisconsin
Hazmat Environmental Group Lackawanna, New York
H.O. Wolding Amherst, Wisconsin
Interstate Distributor Co. Tacoma, Washington
JNJ Express Memphis, Tennessee
Knight Transportation Phoenix, Arizona
Kuperus Trucking Jenison, Michigan
Kwik Trip La Crosse, Wisconsin
M&M Cartage Louisville, Kentucky
Matheson Trucking Sacramento, California
Meijer Logistics Lansing, Michigan
Melton Truck Lines Tulsa, Oklahoma
Navajo Express Denver, Colorado
Nussbaum Transportation Hudson, Illinois
NFI Cherry Hill, New Jersey
City of New York Manhattan, New York
Ozinga Chicago, Illinois
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. San Ramon, California
Ploger Transportation Norwalk, Ohio
Quest Global Kennesaw, Georgia
RRR Transportation Calhoun, Georgia
Republic Services Phoenix, Arizona
REV Hoopes Trucking Ulysses, Pennsylvania
Saddle Creek Logistics Services Lakeland, Florida
Schneider Green Bay, Wisconsin
Sharp Transport Ethridge, Tennessee
Sheehy Mail Contractors Waterloo, Wisconsin
Swift Transportation Phoenix, Arizona
System Freight Inc. Jamesburg, New Jersey
UPS Atlanta, Georgia
Ursa Logistics Pewaukee, Wisconsin
U.S. Xpress Enterprises Chattanooga, Tennessee
Waste Management Houston, Texas
Western Flyer Express Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
You can read more details in the November issue of Heavy Duty Trucking.
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