SmartWay Profiles in Leadership
Profiles in Leadership is SmartWay’s newest recognition initiative. Through this effort EPA recognizes freight sustainability leadership actions for:
- SmartWay Affiliates
- Eligible SmartWay Partners
- Logistics companies
- Air carriers
- Barge carriers
- Rail carriers
This fact sheet outlines the selection criteria and process: 2025 SmartWay Profiles in Leadership — EPA Criteria (pdf)
All eligible Partner categories, with two years of on-time SmartWay Tool submissions and quality data, as well as Affiliates are invited to complete and submit a SmartWay Profiles in Leadership application to EPA for consideration.
Please visit this webpage in April 2025 for the Profiles in Leadership application.
The “Areas of Emphasis” for which EPA will recognize Affiliates and Partners are described below. Applications may be submitted for a maximum of three Areas of Emphasis from a single Affiliate or Partner company.
Profiles in Leadership Areas of Emphasis
Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Goal Setting is a management priority that focuses on focuses on making a positive environmental impact in a company's operations via fuel savings and freight emissions management. is a management priority that focuses on making a positive environmental impact in a company’s operations through a demonstrated commitment to fuel savings, freight emissions management, and data reporting and disclosure.
Freight Research and Future Trends Leadership in studies, research, modeling, testing, or pilots conducted to better understand the current use or future trends in fuel efficient technologies, supply-chain freight-efficiency practices, and/or sector trends that have the potential to shift or advance emissions reductions in the sector.
Influential Collaboration Those intentional cooperative endeavors that advance freight sustainability, including modeling and championing accountability, inspiring market and industry transformation.
Information System and Data Innovation Recent innovations in the acquisition, integration/fusion, analysis, modeling, or visualization of freight data; data tools that are adaptable and user-friendly freight systems that leverage innovative private and public data sources while preserving their proprietary nature (e.g., use of real-time transportation visibility data, digital dashboards, artificial intelligence, application program interfaces, integration of freight-efficiency modules into business systems).
Strategy/Operations Innovation Novel and optimal ways to move and deliver goods more efficiently in the supply chain network. (e.g., integration of new fuel-efficiency equipment, load consolidation, empty mile reduction, route optimization, etc.)
Sustainability Education and Socialization All internal and external actions to educate employees, customers, suppliers, colleagues, members, and investors about your freight sustainability efforts, how SmartWay helps with doing that work and incorporating sustainability values as part of a normal way of doing business.
Technology Innovation New equipment or associated supporting infrastructure to move and deliver goods more efficiently in the freight supply chain network. (e.g., electric or alternatively powered vehicles, autonomous vehicles, etc.)
Other In the event an Affiliate or eligible Partner company wishes to be recognized for leadership actions that may not be a good fit in the Areas of Emphasis categories above, an application may be submitted under the “Other” option.
2024 SmartWay Leaders
EPA SmartWay defines freight sustainability leadership as the ability to drive change, influence industry, lead freight efficiency performance, and sustain freight environmental excellence.
SmartWay Leaders were selected from 2024 Profiles in Leadership applications submitted by Affiliates and eligible Partners categories (logistics companies, air carriers, barge carriers, and rail carriers) that best addressed the 2024 SmartWay Profiles in Leadership selection criteria.
| 2024 SmartWay Leaders | Profiles in Leadership “Area of Emphasis” | Profiles in Leadership Project Title |
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ArcBest® |
Information System and Data Innovation |
City Route Optimization for Less-Than-Truckload Movements (pdf) |
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Lineage |
Influential Collaboration |
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North Central Texas Council of Governments |
Sustainability Education and Socialization |
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Penske Truck Leasing and Penske Logistics, LLC 1 |
Technology Innovation |
Alternative Fuel Options and Services for Advanced-vehicle Deployment (pdf) |
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RXO Capacity Solutions, LLC and RXO Capacity Solutions INC. 2 |
Corporate Social Responsibility |
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Schneider |
Technology Innovation |
Scaling Deployment of Battery Electric, Class 8 tractors (pdf) |
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Tucker Company Worldwide, Inc. |
Sustainability Education and Socialization |
- Joint application from the Affiliate and logistics company divisions of Penske.
- Joint application from U.S. EPA and NR Canada SmartWay Partners respectively.