Brake reveals winners of the UK Fleet Champions Awards 2024

Brake has announced the winners of the UK Fleet Champions Awards 2024 at a ceremony at New Dock Hall at the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

The event celebrated the 43 shortlisted organisations and individuals for their outstanding commitment to road safety.

Entries were judged by an independent panel of experts and 12 winners were announced on the night and a further 13 were highly commended by the judges. See the full list of winners below.

The Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety was presented to Professor Nick Reed, in recognition of his exceptional expertise and dedication, gained across nearly 20 years in the sector.

The founder of Reed Mobility, Professor Reed was especially commended for his pioneering research, instrumental role in the legislative process leading to the new Automated Vehicles Act, and for driving collaboration across the road safety sector to end road death and injury.

Beyond his consultancy work, he was also praised for giving time and expertise to road safety initiatives as a trustee of a number of national charities, including Brake, and has been a judge for Brake’s Fleet Awards programme for many years.

Brake’s CEO, Ross Moorlock, said: “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.”

This year’s awards were sponsored by Lightfoot and delivered in partnership with Driving for Better Business by National Highways.

Pictured l-r: Dan Campsall, chair of Agilysis; Professor Nick Reed, winner of the Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety, and Phil Powell, managing director of Matrix iQ

Mark Cartwright, head of the commercial vehicle incident prevention team at National Highways, said: “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.”

Winners at the UK Fleet Champions Awards 2024

• Company Driver Safety Award - small/medium fleet - winner: Countrystyle Recycling, highly commended: Hooke Highways
• Company Driver Safety Award - large fleet - winner: Northern Powergrid, highly commended: LKQ UK & Ireland Group and Centrica
• Public Sector Driver Safety Award - winner: Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service, highly commended Metropolitan Police Service
• Sustainable Journeys Award - winner Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, highly commended: Hooke Highways
• Dr Will Murray Award for Analysis and Action - winner: Fleetmaster, highly commended: Geotab
• Fleet Safety Innovation Award - winner: Speedy Hire, highly Commended: FORS, Fleetmaster, Seeing Machines
• Fleet Safety Partnership Award - winner: TTC Group in partnership with Willmott Dixon, highly commended: SSE in partnership with Applied Driving Techniques
• Fleet Safety Product Award - winner: Licence Check, highly commended: Red Corporate Driver Training, Fleet Service GB
• Road Safety in the Community Award - winner: Metropolitan Police Service, highly commended: Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
• Safe Vehicles Award - winner: Network Rail
• Road Risk Manager of the Year Award - winner: Mick Kiely, TES 2000, highly commended: Andrew Drewary, Road Safety Smart
• Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety - winner: Nick Reed, Reed Mobility