More than 40 prominent fleet operators and service providers have earnt recognition for their outstanding commitment to road safety at Brake’s UK Fleet Champions Awards 2024.
Held on 3 October at New Dock Hall at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, the awards celebrate the hard work and dedication of fleet organisations striving to reduce road deaths and injuries, and reduce pollution caused by their vehicles.
This year’s awards were sponsored by Lightfoot and delivered in partnership with Driving for Better Business by National Highways. Individual award sponsorship from a further 10 fleet suppliers and organisations underlined support for these awards from across the industry.
Entries were judged by an independent panel of experts and 12 winners were announced on the night and a further thirteen were highly commended by the judges.
Winners at the UK Fleet Champions Awards 2024:
Company Driver Safety Award (Sponsored by Fleetmaster)
Small/medium fleet
WINNER: Countrystyle Recycling
Highly Commended: Hooke Highways
Company Driver Safety Award (Sponsored by Fleetmaster)
Large fleet
WINNER: Northern Powergrid
Highly Commended: LKQ UK & Ireland Group
Highly Commended: Centrica
Public Sector Driver Safety Award (sponsored by TTC Group)
WINNER: Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Highly Commended: Metropolitan Police Service
Sustainable Journeys Award (sponsored by Zurich Resilience Solutions)
WINNER: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Hooke Highways
Dr Will Murray Award for Analysis and Action (sponsored by eDriving)
WINNER: Fleetmaster
Highly Commended: Geotab
Fleet Safety Innovation Award (sponsored by FM Conway)
WINNER: Speedy Hire
Highly Commended: FORS
Highly Commended: Fleetmaster
Highly Commended: Seeing Machines
Fleet Safety Partnership Award (sponsored by Axa UK)
WINNER: TTC Group in partnership with Willmott Dixon
Highly Commended: SSE plc in partnership with Applied Driving Techniques
Fleet Safety Product Award (sponsored by Seeing Machines)
WINNER: Licence Check Ltd
Highly Commended: RED Corporate Driver Training
Highly Commended: Fleet Service GB
Road Safety in the Community Award (sponsored by Samsara)
WINNER: Metropolitan Police Service
Highly Commended: Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Safe Vehicles Award (sponsored by Geotab)
WINNER: Network Rail
Road Risk Manager of the Year Award (sponsored by QBE)
WINNER: Mick Kiely, TES 2000
Highly Commended: Andrew Drewary, Road Safety Smart
Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety (sponsored by Matrix iQ)
WINNER: Nick Reed, Reed Mobility
Brake’s CEO, Ross Moorlock said: “At Brake, we believe that no one should be hurt or killed on a road, and it’s unacceptable to us that deaths and injuries continue to happen, every single day, on UK roads.
“We would like to thank everyone who attended and supported this year’s awards, helping us to celebrate all those in the fleet industry who are taking action to help end road death and injury in the fleet industry.”
Paul Hollick, managing director at Lightfoot, added: “We’re proud to support such an inspiring event, aligned with our mission to drive progress in road safety and efficiency. Congratulations to all the winners – you are leading the way to a safer future!”
Mark Cartwright, head of the commercial vehicle incident prevention team at National Highways, commented: “We are delighted to partner with Brake to deliver this year’s UK Fleet Champions Awards. This is an important night for our industry and all of us in attendance are inspired to take further action against road crashes. A huge congratulations to all the worthy winners and to all those nominated.”
More details of the awards are online here.
