Award Recipients Reduce Emissions, Improve the Environment, and Improve Companies' Bottom-line
TONTITOWN, Ark., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTSI) received an Environmental Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay(SM) Transport Partnership for its leadership in conserving energy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions from its transportation and freight activities. P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. adopted various fuel saving technologies -- Idling Control Strategies, Aerodynamic Devices, Automatic Tire Inflation Systems, Weight Reduction, Low Friction Lubricants, Team Drivers, Speed Management, Trailer Strategies, and Intermodal Shipments to save fuel, reduce carbon dioxide emissions, reduce Particulate Matter emissions and NOx emissions to generate substantial cost savings.
"Our partnership with SmartWay Transport demonstrates that companies can save money and help the environment," said Robert Weaver, President & CEO. "The partnership provides us with tools and information, and contributes on a daily basis to significant improvements in our efficiency and environmental performance. We urge all of our colleagues in the freight industry to consider joining SmartWay." P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. was one of 34 companies and organizations, from among the Partnerships' more than 600 Partners, to receive this distinction. The awards were announced October 22nd at the annual conference of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"EPA is pleased to recognize Partners with SmartWay Excellence Awards. The award winners are leading the way toward a cleaner, more efficient transportation future with strategies that reduce emissions and increase profits," said Margo T. Oge, Director of EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality.
SmartWay was introduced by EPA and a select group of fifteen shipping and business leaders 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 600 businesses and organizations have joined the Partnership, including companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies to family-owned businesses, each working to improve their environmental performance. Together, based on their three-year commitments, these companies, including P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc., are conserving more than 600 million gallons of diesel fuel per year, saving the trucking industry nearly $2 billion in annual fuel costs, and eliminating nearly 7 million metric 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.
For more information about SmartWay, visit: http://www.epa.gov/smartway or call (734) 214-4767.
P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. (PTSI) is a transportation holding company incorporated in June 1986. It conducts its truckload carrier operations through its wholly-owned subsidiaries: P.A.M. Transport, Inc.; P.A.M. Dedicated Services, Inc.; P.A.M. Special Services, Inc.; P.A.M. Logistics Services, Inc.; Choctaw Express, Inc.; Choctaw Brokerage, Inc.; Allen Freight Services, Inc.; Decker Transport Co., Inc.; and East Coast Transport & Logistics, Inc. P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. is headquartered and maintains it's corporate and administrative offices in Tontitown, Arkansas. Visit: http://www.pamt.com/ DATASOURCE: P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc.
CONTACT: Robert Weaver, President & CEO, or Carl Tapp, CDM-E - VP of Maintenance, both of P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc., +1-479-361-9111 Web site: http://www.pamt.com/ http://www.epa.gov/smartway
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