NPTC/Lytx Announce 2020 Fleet Safety Award Winners

ARLINGTON, VA – More than 20 private fleets who have demonstrated continued improvement and dedication in elevating their safety performance year over year have been honored by receiving the NPTC/Lytx^® Fleet Safety Awards, according to an announcement from Gary Petty, NPTC President and CEO.

The NPTC/Lytx^® Fleet Safety Awards recognize NPTC member companies that work to make safety a priority in their private fleets’ operations,” said Scott Duvall, CTP, Chair of the NPTC Safety Committee and Regional Supervisor of Driver Operations, Medline Industries, Inc. “These annual fleet safety awards in particular recognize companies with the lowest ratio of accidents per million miles for the past year.” This year’s winners (based on safety performance achieved in 2019) are:

LOCAL OPERATIONS (fleets whose vehicles deliver in a local market regardless of size)

First Place: Blain Supply, Inc.

Second Place: United Scrap Metal

Third Place: Marathon Petroleum Company

REGIONAL OPERATIONS (all other fleets, including long-haul)

First Place: Orscheln Farm and Home, LLC

Second Place: Hittman Transport Services

Third Place: Composites One LLC

SMALL, MIXED OPERATIONS (less than 100 vehicles)

First Place: New South Express, Inc.

Second Place: Unifi Manufacturing, Inc.

Third Place: Metal Exchange Corporation

LARGE, MIXED OPERATIONS (Large Fleet – 100 vehicles or more)

First Place: Baxter Healthcare Corporation

Second Place: ADM Trucking Inc.

Third Place: Atlas Trucking Company LLC

Also recognized, were those fleets with outstanding and/or improved safety records based upon their crash rates. Winners of the Gold Seal, awarded to fleets with a terminal that experienced ZERO crashes in 2019, include:

ADM Trucking, Inc.
Hillyard, Inc.
Hittman Transport Services
The Home Depot, Inc.

Winners of the Silver Seal, presented to those companies with a terminal that reduced its vehicle crash rates by 40% or more compared to the previous year, were:

ADM Trucking Inc.
Bridgestone Americas Tire Ops.
CVS Health
Frito-Lay, Inc.
Hillyard, Inc.
The Home Depot, Inc.
Walgreen Oshkosh, Inc.

The Bronze Seal recognition is presented to companies with a terminal that reduced its vehicle crash rates by 20% to 39% from the previous year. The winners of the Bronze Seal are:

ADM Trucking, Inc.
Frito-Lay, Inc.
Hittman Transport Services
Perdue Farms, Inc.
Targa Transport LLC
The Home Depot, Inc.
Walgreen Oshkosh, Inc.

About NPTC

Founded in 1939, the National Private Truck Council is the only national trade association exclusively representing the interests of the private truck industry and corporate/business private truck fleet management. With an actively engaged leadership team of Board representatives, member volunteers and staff, NPTC in the past decade has grown significantly to serve a rising professional class of private fleet practitioners meeting the challenges of modern corporate transportation. NPTC is the leading learning resource center, government affairs advocate, and business networking culture for America’s top private fleet and supplier member companies. The Council produces benchmarking, best practices, and economic data reports on the private fleet market; administers the highly regarded Certified Transportation Professional (CTP) training program, and conducts some of the most successful events in the trucking industry including the Annual Education Management Conference and Exhibition, the Private Fleet Management Institute, and the National Safety Conference. For more information about the Council’s activities and programs, visit our website at www.nptc.org

About Lytx

Lytx® is a leading provider of video telematics, analytics, safety, and productivity solutions for commercial, public sector, and field services fleets. Our unrivaled Driver Safety Program, powered by our best-in-class DriveCam® Event Recorder, is proven to help save lives and reduce risk. We harness the power of video to help clients see what happened in the past, manage their operations more efficiently in the present, and improve driver behavior to change the future. Our customizable services and programs span driver safety, risk detection, fleet tracking, compliance, and fuel management. Using the world’s largest driving database of its kind, along with proprietary machine vision and artificial intelligence technology, we help protect and connect thousands of fleets and more than 1.3 million drivers worldwide. For more information on Lytx telematics system, visit http://www.lytx.com, @lytx on Twitter, LinkedIn, our Facebook page or our YouTube channel.