Green Express – Atlanta’s Earth-Friendly Delivery Company

In Georgia, the hot summer sun combined with car emissions creates an unhealthy air quality which is dangerous to our health. Due to heavy driving, courier companies in Atlanta are using thousands of gallons of fuel and diesel fuel daily while emitting carbon gases into the atmosphere.

Jay Holgate, owner of Georgia Couriers decided that his company should do something to help. Georgia Couriers was rebranded as Green Express and the fleet of traditional cars was replaced with hybrids. Green Express is the first courier in the country to move its fleet to hybrids (and it happens to be located in Alpharetta). The company provides rush courier, same day, next day, and overnight courier services to Metro Atlanta and the Southeast.

Environmental groups like the Georgia Conservancy and Atlanta Botanical Garden have switched to Green Express. So have environmental attorneys Morris, Manning and Martin, and three divisions of Interface, Inc. – a global carpet manufacturer known for its leadership role in reducing the company’s carbon footprint worldwide. Interface’s legal secretary Karen Daniel uses Green Express almost every day. “The fact they drive hybrid cars – as well as being extremely reliable – is an added attraction for anyone who cares about controlling air pollution,” Daniel says.

Once Green Express took the leap of going green, it became a crusade – a kind of challenging game – to filter every process through an environmental microscope. By employing the most advanced GPS mapping technologies to boost efficiencies even further, drivers are often rerouted to alternate roads to avoid the worst congestion – another way to save fuel. One wrong turn can waste a gallon of gas every day times 10 cars; that’s at least 2,200 gallons a year. “We also advise our customers on the best times for pick-ups and deliveries to use gas more efficiently,” Holgate adds. And the company has moved to paperless e-billing and designed an easy online system for placing orders.

Holgate encourages his customers to rethink how often they use their own cars for trips Green Express can easily handle. “We are already on the road using the most efficient routes driving zero-emission cars,” Holgate remarks. “It makes sense to let us run personal errands as well as business deliveries to save gas and people’s precious time.”

Learn more at greendelivers.com.