Brake’s UK Fleet Champions Awards are more vital than ever to showcase how businesses can tackle safety and decarbonisation, according to new headline sponsor Lightfoot.
The 2024 awards, which take place in Leeds on 3 October, will reveal those organisations at the forefront of work to reduce road injuries, prevent fatalities and also reduce pollution caused by their vehicles.
Telematics specialist Lightfoot said there has never been a more important time to champion the causes of safer driving and carbon reduction, and added that the shortlisted fleets in the UK Fleet Champions Awards can play a pivotal role in showing other businesses how to take action.
Paul Hollick, managing director, said: “It’s a great honour for Lightfoot to take up the headline sponsorship of the UK Fleet Champions Awards, because we are entering a period of time where more needs to be done.
“The fleet industry has made great strides in reducing risk over the past two decades, but now we need to innovate and improve further still to finally crack the problem we’re seeing where the number of seriously injured on our roads is no longer falling significantly. We need to find ways to make that next leap forward in reducing crashes, and at Lightfoot we believe we have the answer with technology that manages and improves driving behaviour.”
Hollick also spotlighted the need to decarbonise and reduce pollution faster and more quickly to improve air quality and combat climate change, which is intrinsically a safety issue too.
“There is still much work to do. Road safety and decarbonisation are linked, as our technology has shown – safer drivers often go hand-in-hand with a reduction in pollution. So it can be done, but for many fleets these are big, complex problems, and they need help.
“Brake’s UK Fleet Champions Awards provides them with real-world examples of how to do it through the brilliant work being done by the shortlisted fleets and fleet managers, and that is hugely helpful in showing the way forward. It is why we felt it important to give our support as headline sponsor.”
The awards ceremony on 3 October takes place at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, with the winners announced from a shortlist of 43 organisations and individuals in 12 categories.
Ross Moorlock, CEO of Brake, commented: “We’re excited to deliver another fantastic UK Fleet Champions Awards this year, celebrating safety in this sector and honouring those working hard to reduce road death, injury and pollution. Lightfoot has been a great supporter of our charity and of these awards, as well as a champion for road safety in this sector.”
The full shortlist for this year’s awards is online here.
