The article substantiates the aim of responsible transport logistics, which consists of the delivery of goods on time with minimal investment of labour and material resources. The level of responsibility is considered at each step of shipment of goods from the producer to the consumer. 4 stages of effective transport logistics are offered by the authors. It has been established that at the first stage it is crucial to formulate the tasks clearly for its solution by logistics in business; the second stage is analysing of the Best Practices in the researched field - the study of competitors’ logistics, the study of available information; the third stage is the development of a specific action plan of the transport enterprise; the fourth is the introduction of improvements after the first results of the work.