GTI wins Environmental Excellence Award


DENVER – Gordon Trucking received the 2008 Environmental Excellence Award at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professional's Annual Conference on Oct 7.

GTI is one of 27 companies to receive this honor from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay Transport partnership program. The award recognizes organizations committed to reducing their use of fuel and lowering carbon emissions from freight transport.

SmartWay was introduced by the EPA in 2004 as an innovative, market-based partnership to reduce fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants from the freight sector. Today, more than 1,000 businesses and organizations of all sizes have joined the partnership. They include Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller, family-owned businesses all working to improve their environmental performance.

GTI has been active with fuel economy improvement and emissions reduction for many years and became a member of SmartWay when it started in 2004. GTI has implemented many changes in the past few years and will continue to reduce its carbon footprint and improve stewardship of the environment.

"I commend Gordon Trucking for its leadership in promoting sustainable transportation practices through the SmartWay Transport Partnership,” said Margo T Ore, Director of the office of transportation and air quality at the EPA. "Their commitment is helping lead us toward a cleaner environment and more secure energy supply."

Together, through the SmartWay Partnership, GTI and other businesses working together are saving the trucking industry more than 2 billion dollars in annual fuel and maintenance costs. This should eliminate more than 6 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.

By 2012, the SmartWay program, with full industry participation, estimates nationwide that it will achieve annual fuel savings of 3.3 to 6.6 billion gallons of diesel fuel, eliminating 33 - 66 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions and up to 200,000 tons of nitrogen oxide emissions.