Press Release

Contact: Sundy J Muse-Morton, Marketing Director November 2, 2006

Phone: 417-829-0079

O & S Trucking Wins US EPA Environmental Excellence Award

Award Recipients Efforts to Reduce Emissions Improve the Environment and Companies’ Bottom-line

O&S Trucking, Inc received an Environmental Excellence Award from the US EPA SmartWay SM Transport Partnership for its impressive achievements and leadership in reducing emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases from its freight transport activities. The awards were announced at the 2006 American Trucking Associations Management Conference, held Oct 28-31, in Dallas, Texas. O & S was one of 24 companies, from among the Partnerships’ more than 400 Partners, to receive this distinction.

SmartWay Transport Partners include businesses and organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies to family-owned businesses, each working to improve their environmental performance. The most recognizable effort from O & S was installing auxiliary power units (APU) on fleet tractors. From October to December 2005, 22 units were installed. Thus far in 2006, 110 have been installed (including 22 Lease Purchase trucks) with more scheduled.

An APU provides climate control, heat and air, battery charging, engine heating and is a source of AC power without running the tractor engine. In addition to the internal comforts provided, the system also provides fuel savings. The minimum savings seen is .3 miles per gallon (mpg) per truck with the installation of the APU. This savings equals approximately 96 gallons of fuel per truck per month or approximately $250 per truck per month.

"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 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. In just two years, by employing straightforward strategies for reducing truck and rail emissions, Partner companies have essentially reduced emissions equivalent to 500,000 cars.

Despite record-breaking diesel prices, more than 400 freight industry companies are on track to save over $1.2 billion on fuel and remove more than 4 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions from the air by 2007 as part of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) innovative SmartWay SM Transport Partnership.

By 2012, the SmartWay program, with full industry participation, estimates nationwide annual fuel savings of 3.3 to 6.6 billion gallons of diesel fuel, eliminating 66 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions and up to 200,000 tons of nitrogen oxide emissions –the equivalent to emissions of 12 million cars!

For more information about SmartWay visit: www.epa.gov/smartway or call (734) 214-4767.

For more information about the SmartWay Award recipients, visit: www.epa.gov/awards

O & S Trucking, Inc. is an employee-owned, full service truck line based in Springfield, MO. The company hauls dry and temperature-controlled freight. The corporate fleet is comprised of Independent Contractors, including a Lease Purchase division and company owned equipment.

Enclosure: List of Environmental Excellence Award Winners;

2006 US EPA Environmental Excellence Award Winners

The SmartWay Excellence Awardees are (categorized by sector and size):


Large, For-Hire Carriers	Contract Freighters, Inc. (CFI) Roehl Transport Schneider National YRC Worldwide
Small to Mid-size, For-Hire Carriers	Bison Transport Langford Trucking National Freight, Inc. New Century Transportation O & S Trucking
Private Fleets	HEB –H. E. Butt Grocery Company Smithfield Packing Transportation Co. Quad Graphics Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Shippers	IKEA North America Services Interface, Inc. and Meridian IQ (joint award) Owens Corning Sharp Electronics
Logistics Companies	APL Logistics Epes Logistics Services
Affiliates	Minnesota Trucking Association New Jersey Motor Carrier Association Lane Regional Air Protection Agency and Cascade Sierra Solutions (joint award)