SmartWay Logistics Company Partner Tools and Resources

Measure Your Performance

SmartWay Logistics Companies measure, benchmark, and improve their performance on an annual basis. Logistics company performance is based on evaluating how much of the freight your company ships is carried by benchmarked SmartWay Carriers versus non-SmartWay Carriers.

You must submit a completed and accurate SmartWay Logistics Company Tool to EPA by the due date listed on this page to be a SmartWay Logistics Company in good standing and to be eligible for partner recognition.

Logistics Company Tool and Example Tool

The tool contains screen demos and guidance on each page to help you complete and submit your tool. This tab also contains additional guidance with worksheets to help you collect your data for tool submission.

• READ THIS FIRST: How to Download the SmartWay Tool
  • NOTE: Tools must be opened in Windows Excel (Version 2003 or later)
• 2021 SmartWay Logistics Company Partner Tool (2020 Data Year) (XLS) (xlsm)  Save this file to your computer before opening it. Use this file for submitting your data--Do not submit the example tool.
•   Example Logistics Tool (Filled In) for Download (XLS) (xlsm) Save this file to your computer before opening it. This file is not for submitting your company's information--Use the "Logistics Carrier Tool" above for your official data submission.

Logistics Company Tool User Guides

Use these guides to understand the tool data entry and submission process. Note that the data worksheets are available in the appendices of the User Guide and are no longer listed as stand-alone documents.

• 2021 SmartWay Logistics Company Partner Tool: What’s New in this Version? U.S. Version 2.0.20 (Data Year 2020) (pdf) (July 2021, EPA-420-F-21-053) Version 2.0.20 of the Logistics Carrier Tool contains a number of updates and revisions to the prior version, 2.0.19. These updates have been implemented to enhance the usefulness, clarity, and accuracy of the Tool. This document summarizes those changes.
• 2021 SmartWay Logistics Company Partner Tool: Quick Start Guide U.S. Version 2.0.20 (Data Year 2020) (pdf) (July 2021, EPA-420-B-21-033) Please review this before downloading and using the tool. This document gives you a brief overview of the tool and what you’ll need to complete it. It includes handy worksheets for entering your company’s information, which you’ll want to complete prior to opening the tool.
• 2021 SmartWay Logistics Company Partner Tool: Technical Documentation U.S. Version 2.0.20 (Data Year 2020) (pdf) (July 2021, EPA-420-B-21-035)(This document discusses tool data sources, calculations, and issues considered in determining methods employed in the tool
• 2021 SmartWay Logistics Company Partner Tool: User Guide U.S. Version 2.0.20 (Data Year 2020) (pdf) (July 2021, EPA-420-B-21-034) Please review this before downloading and using the tool. This document gives you a brief overview of the tool and what you’ll need to complete it. It includes handy worksheets for entering your company’s information, which you’ll want to complete prior to opening the tool.
• 2020 SmartWay Logistics, Multimodal, and Shipper Partner Tools: Guide to Importing Carrier Data Using the Outside Data Import Function - U.S. Version 2.0.19 (Data Year 2019) (PDF) (28 pp, 1.3 MB, May 2020, EPA-420-B-20-027)
  For those selecting the outside data import option to upload carrier activity data, this detailed guide tells you how to create a file that contains your company’s in-house carrier data in SmartWay’s prescribed format, thereby reducing the need to enter carrier activity data manually.

Submitting Your Logistics Company Tool to EPA

Once you have completed your Logistics Company Tool for this year, there are two steps to submitting it for evaluation by EPA:

Step 1) Save it to your computer in a place you will remember. When you save, you will generate two files—both a .xls file and a .xml file.

Step 2) Email both files to your Partner Account Manager. If you do not know who your Partner Account Manager is, you can submit your two files via email to smartway_transport@epa.gov for evaluation.

View Carrier Performance Rankings

SmartWay Logistics Companies improve their overall performance by using more and better SmartWay Carriers to move their freight. All SmartWay Carrier Partners are ranked by their performance levels. EPA provides a table with all carriers' relative performance rankings to help SmartWay Shippers and Logistics Company Partners quickly assess the performance of prospective and current carriers in various categories.

• Learn more about SmartWay Carrier Ranking Data
  • The performance ranking files are refreshed every Monday afternoon. (For reference purposes only.)
• Understanding SmartWay Data: A Primer for Shippers (PDF) (3 pp, 390K, June 2012, EPA-420-F-12-018)

You can also view detailed reports and other information about partner performance via the SmartWay Portal.

• Visit the SmartWay Portal

Watch Training Webinars

EPA provides webinars and other training opportunities to help carriers learn how to get more value from the SmartWay Program.

• View SmartWay Webinar Schedule

Resources to Introduce Your Carriers to SmartWay

EPA has created several tools to help you share the benefits of SmartWay with your carriers.

• Carrier education templates: This page includes several documents and templates to help you introduce your carriers to the benefits of registering with the SmartWay program.
  • Documents and templates to Introduce Your Carriers to SmartWay
• Web graphics to link to SmartWay's website: Place one or more of these four Web graphics on your website to draw your audience's attention to key SmartWay resources. You can also develop your own graphics to highlight specific SmartWay Web content.
  • Download the images: SmartWay ads (ZIP)(1 pg, 315 K) To add these images to your website, work with your webmaster and have them link the images to the following web links:

    • Footprint image

    • Webinar image

    • Shipper image

    • Carrier image

Improve your Performance

By collaborating with their carriers, suppliers, shippers and other partners, logistics companies often find that they can move and deliver their goods more efficiently and quickly in the supply chain network. Other important benefits include gains in overall supply chain performance, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. The resources below identify a range of strategies that SmartWay logistic companies can use to achieve these benefits.

• Co-loading for Logistics and Shipper Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-035)

• Continuous Move Planning for Logistics and Shipper Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-036)

• Load Optimization for Logistic Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-038)

• Inventory Management as a Shipping Strategy for Logistics and Shipper Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-040)

• Rightsizing Equipment and Fleets for Logistics and Shipper Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-041)

• Route Optimization for Logistics Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-042)

• Carrier Freight Matching for Logistics and Shipper Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-043)

• Supplier Sourcing for Logistics and Shipper Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-044)

• Less-than-Truckload Freight Consolidation for Logistics and Shipper Companies: A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies (pdf) (December 2021, EPA-420-F-21-045)

Take a moment to review the A Glance at Clean Freight Strategies, resources for shippers found on the SmartWay website. Resources that are especially complimentary of two strategy bulletins on this list include Load Optimization for Shippers (PDF) (2 pp, 220K, April 2019, EPA-420-F-19-014) and Route and Network Optimization for Shippers (PDF) (2 pp, 204K, April 2019, EPA-420-F-19-016).

Share Your Achievements

EPA encourages SmartWay Partners to share their achievements and participation in the SmartWay program with their customers, clients, stakeholders, and stockholders. There are several ways Partners highlight achievements:

Best Practice Guidance: Read this page for guidance on how to communicate your participation in the Partnership.

• Sharing your Participation in SmartWay-Best Practices

Featured Partner Profiles: EPA frequently develops profiles of SmartWay Partners that provide examples of effective freight supply chain sustainability measures.

• If you have a strategy, policy, or solution to a significant freight sustainability challenge that you would like to share with your industry, email your interest (smartway_transport@epa.gov) with the subject line "Interested in becoming a Featured Partner" to be considered.