Tools for Sustainable Transports
“The elements we can control – safety and emissions – are areas where we can decide what is acceptable and what is not.”
Forum HT, Forum för Hållbara Transporter, or Forum for Sustainable Transport, (www.transportupphandling.se), is a Swedish network made up of six freight buyers, and Vägverket, the National Swedish Road Administration, to link buyers and sellers of freight services via an Internet-based tool to rate and compare documented environmental and safety records of freight companies.
So far, participating freight buyers, in addition to Trelleborg, are Perstorp, Stena, Strålfors, Preem and Södra Skogsägarna.
“This website is a structured tool to step up the minimum requirements for everybody and show how we can improve in the coming years,” says Losa.
The Swedish transportupphandling.se website is a forum where freight buyers such as Trelleborg can audit their transport subcontractors and share this information with others – everything from driver safety procedures and reducing return trips with an empty load to keeping the speed limit.
“We know that 86 percent of truck accidents in Sweden have to do with driving above the speed limit,” says Losa. “We want freight companies to show us documented procedures on how to avoid this.”