Sponsored by CBRE

This award celebrates excellence in apprenticeship schemes. Each company has demonstrated success in attracting and retaining high quality recruits that continue to make a positive contribution to their business and wider industry.

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Sponsored by Bridgestone UK

This award celebrates a project that has used the latest technology, whether within vehicles, components, infrastructure or within IT, to enhance a service and resulted in a clear benefit to the customers or an improvement in efficiency.

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Sponsored by Hireco

This award celebrates companies that are promoting best working practices within the commercial vehicle and road freight sector. The Business Excellence prize will be awarded to the company that can demonstrate commitment and excellence in financial performance, a long-term business growth strategy, care for the environment, excellent corporate social responsibility, high service levels and outstanding staff development and retention programmes.

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Sponsored by Isuzu Truck

This award celebrates excellent customer care from all levels of an organisation as well as businesses that are going above and beyond to delight customers and use that to grow their business.

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Sponsored by Chevron Lubricants

The Fleet Truck of the Year award celebrates the best truck of the year. Judges have selected these finalists based on their productivity (including reliability and vehicle uptime), fuel efficiency, driver acceptance, manufacturer/dealer support and total cost of ownership. Other factors that were considered for this award include customer service, warranty, finance packages and after sales support. 

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Sponsored by Close Brothers Vehicle Hire

The Fleet Van of the Year award celebrates the best light commercial vehicle under 7.5 tonne GVW for the year. Judges looked for productivity (including reliability and vehicle uptime), fuel efficiency, driver acceptance, manufacturer/dealer support and total cost of ownership when selecting our finalists. Other factors that were taken into consideration were customer service, warranty,  finance packages and after sales support. 

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Sponsored by Renault Trucks

This award celebrates organisations that are achieving outstanding standards of performance in professionalism, productivity, customer service, health and safety, training environment and well-structured apprenticeship schemes that suit the business needs.

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Sponsored by Volvo Trucks

The most coveted award in the road transport industry! This award celebrates outstanding road haulage or 3PL company of the past year. To win you will need to show a tremendous all-round commitment to legal compliance, business success, high operational standards, staff development, safety, health, environment and quality.

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Sponsored by Cartwright Group

This award celebrates those that have set themselves apart from their competition and position themselves as the home delivery operator of choice. Entries were asked to demonstrate a strong business performance matched by service excellence including first time delivery rates; high levels of customer service and an ability to meet the ever changing demands for the end recipient who is driving the market for more flexible delivery options.

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Sponsored by Goodyear

This award celebrates transport operators and product and service manufacturers or suppliers who can show outstanding innovation in developing a product, service or operation. Judges were looking for evidence of how creative thinking has been applied to solve a problem. 

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Sponsored by Pirelli Truck

This award celebrates trucks and trailers that have been used as mobile billboards by operators to present a strong, positive image of the company and the transport industry to the public. Judges were looking for a modern, stylish livery that gets across its message clearly and effectively. 

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Sponsored by Fraikin

Sponsored by The Algorithm People

This award celebrates the operations department, often the unsung heroes who go above and beyond. Judges were looking for an outstanding operations department that juggles the need for the business to make a profit, the demands of customers for high service levels and the absolute requirement to run legally at all times.

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Sponsored by The Commercial Vehicle Show

This award celebrates genuine partnerships between: operator(s) and a customer; two or more operators working together; or operator(s) working with a supplier or consultant.

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Sponsored by VisionTrack

This award celebrates entrants who showed either an exceptional commitment to all-round operational safety or described a specific successful initiative designed to improve safety in a particular area of the operation. 

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Sponsored by HIAB

This award celebrates the group of people able to demonstrate that they have worked closely together to either deliver a major project or consistently over-achieved in their field of operation. 

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Sponsored by Hankook Tyre UK

This award celebrates whoever is responsible for managing the specification, acquisition, repair and maintenance and disposal of an operator’s fleet. To win this award entrants have to demonstrate industry-leading levels of cost efficiency, reliability, availability, safety and first-time annual test pass rates. Innovation is also essential – this could involve reducing fuel consumption, being more efficient or using technology creatively to solve a specific technical fleet problem.

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Sponsored by Palletforce

This award celebrates businesses that have shown how they have improved the performance of their company or operation through training staff in the last 12 to 18 months. 

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Sponsored by Prohire

This award celebrates the innovative solutions that the logistics industry is developing to keep our towns and cities safe, clean and quiet. Judges wanted to see entries which showed ingenuity when navigating the logistics of increasingly crowded cities whilst complying with the growing body of environmental rules and regulations. 

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