Fleet News Awards 2014: full roll of honour

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• Nick Bennett - 21/03/2014 06:59

  Far too many awards now. Makes the evening a parade and the awards have minimal value. This may sound cynical, but saddly is a view shared by most who attend. Look at the background noise created throughout the awards ceremony. People are bored and would prefer to chatter. Perhaps for next year try something completely different. Use the NEC in Birmingham, have it more like a garden party in the day, with areas of vehicles, This needs thought, but would be worthwhile.

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  • bristol_bri - 21/03/2014 13:22

    @Nick Bennett - Hi Nick, thanks for your feedback. We value all opinions, of course, but we have received numerous emails from people telling us what a wonderful night they had (not including the emails from those that won awards). It is difficult to please everyone, but this is an awards ceremony and we make no apology for that. We have had around 30 categories for many years and I thought the way we split the event into two sections worked well. Noise will always be an issue when we have more than 1,500 people in the room, but on the whole I thought the vast majority were well behaved and showed considerable respect to the winners. Your comment that the awards are of "minimal value" is disrespectful to those winners and, from the feedback I received from fleet, supplier and manufacturer winners, other finalists and even those who didn't make the shortlist, very wide of the mark. You are, of course, entitled to your view, and we will do our own research with table hosts about their view of the event to make sure we are possession of everyone's opinion, but (despite my obvious bias) I firmly believe the awards are the pinnacle of fleet achievement and do mean a lot to those involved, as well as to much of the wider fleet community. Regards Steve Briers Editor, Fleet News

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