The Green Express

An Atlanta courier is working on a creative solution when is comes to keeping the earth green and keeping within the

companies budget. The Green Express is the first courier in the country to move its fleet to hybrids. Jay Holgate, owner of Green Express, foresaw that Atlanta companies would share his commitment to reducing their own use of imported oil and a desire for cleaner air. The response has been nothing less than astounding.

Affordable gas is the blood that runs of any courier company. With gas prices at an all-time high, the hybrids are delivering tremendous savings. Green Express drivers travel at least 2,500 miles every day delivering packages throughout metro Atlanta in 16 counties. Green Express hybrids average 47 miles per gallon, while their traditional cars get just 25 miles per gallon. Not to mention the hybrids are zero-emission vehicles when idling or under 30 mph.

Holgate and his team all have young children which was another motivator to go green. Also, 35 new customers have come on board. Holgate has been operating as Georgia Couriers for seven years using traditional cars, the company was renamed Green Express in January of this year.

Environmental groups like the Georgia Conservancy and Atlanta Botanical Garden have switched curious to, you guessed it, Green Express. So have environmental attorneys Morris, Manning and Martin, and three divisions of Interface, Inc. Interface’s legal secretary Karen Daniel uses Green Express almost every day and is pleased to know that they have the earth, the children of the future, and her in mind.

Once Green Express took the leap of going green, it became 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 and 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.

Holgate encourages his customers to rethink how often they use their own cars for trips Green Express can easily handle. Visit greendelivers.com to find out more about Atlanta based courier’s future.

As always, Keep It Green.