Trucks are environmentally responsible.
 
Worldwide, trucks coming off the line today are cleaner than ever before. Most, if not all, of the major manufacturers have been able to design vehicles that practically eliminate nitrogen oxide emissions.[1] The Minnesota Trucking Association is doing its part to help the environment as an award-winning member of U.S. EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership.[2]
 
The Partnership is a voluntary association between EPA and more than 450 freight-industry companies that offers incentives for fuel-efficiency improvements and reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.[3]
 
Paving new roads.
 
In 2006, the MTA was honored as one of twenty-three winners of the SmartWay Excellence Award.[4] The MTA not only recruited seventeen new SmartWay carriers, but also took active steps to promote the program at industry conferences and in the media.[5]
 
At that time, ten percent of all SmartWay carriers in the country were based in Minnesota.[6]




1 See Jim McNamara, EPA, CARB certify Volvo Trucks North America’s Near Zero-Emissions Diesel Engines for 2010, Nov. 11, 2009, available at http://www.volvo.com/trucks/na/en-us/news_and_events/news_releases/2008pressreleases/NewsItemPage.htm?ItemId=72614&sl=en-gb; Mack Trucks, Clear Teach SCR System, http://www.mackscr.com/assets/mack/brochures/MCKTRK_6222_ClrTchSCRBro150.pdf.
2 http://www.epa.gov/smartway/transport/partner-list/index.htm#m.
3 http://www.epa.gov/smartway/basic-information/index.htm.
4 http://www.epa.gov/SmartwayLogistics/transport/partner-list/minnesota-trucking-association.htm.
5 Id.
6 Id.