Frederick Smith

COLUMN-Better route planning cuts fuel use in freight sector: Kemp Monday, 25 Mar 2013 | 6:59 AM ET

LONDON, March 25- U.S. distributors and freight hauliers have held down diesel consumption even as their business recovers from recession by making thousands of small changes to their operations. In 2013, FedEx will have improved the fuel efficiency of its U.S vehicle fleet by 22 percent compared with 2005, Chairman Frederick Smith said at CERA Week.
False sense of energy security a risk of US oil boom-council Monday, 3 Dec 2012 | 12:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON, Dec 3- A surprising U.S. energy production windfall puts the country at risk of ignoring the urgent need to transform its transportation sector to depend less on oil and more on electricity and natural gas, a high-profile group of chief executives and retired military brass warned on Monday.