Physical operations keep the world running. The fleets that move food, fuel, materials, and medicine don’t get days off, and the leaders who run them rarely get recognized. This year at Vision 26 in Nashville, we put them first with the first annual Motive Visionary Awards. 

These awards recognize superlative organizations and leaders building on the Motive physical operations platform and impacting job-sites, roads, and communities all over the world. 

How we selected the winners

To determine the winners of this year’s Motive Visionary Customer Awards, the Motive data science and analytics teams conducted a rigorous multi-factor evaluation of fleet performance across 2024 and 2025, with the goal of objectively measuring overall impact, operational efficiency and safety performance. 

The Bottom Line Savings Award evaluated financial efficiency using Motive Card data from 2025. To qualify, fleets needed at least six months of active card usage, and were scored on the largest percentage saved from rebates and the percentage of spend protected by fraud controls. 

The Excellence in Coaching Award recognized fleets using AI to build safer driving cultures by evaluating 2025 AI Coach active usage volume, shared event rates by the fleet, and reviewed event rates by drivers. This award also required finalists to maintain a low collision rate per million miles to confirm that coaching translated into on-road results. 

The Safety Leader Award focused on measurable safety improvements. The team analyzed the reduction in total safety events per million miles from the first half of 2025 to the second half, alongside each fleet’s overall 2025 collision rate. 

The Organizational Transformation Award celebrated long-term culture change by tracking sustained improvement over a two-year period, selecting winners based on fleet safety score growth from the beginning of 2024 through the end of 2025, paired with their overall reduction in safety events per million miles during 2025.

Finally, the Global Innovator Award recognized active Motive customers operating in Canada, the U.K., and Mexico that delivered measurable global impact across key safety metrics — collision rates, event reduction, and safety scores per million miles — tailored to their local operating environments. To select winners, Motive measured event reductions from the first to second half of 2025 globally. 

Bottom Line Savings Award

This category recognizes the fleets who made spend management a genuine competitive function, not just a back-office one.

Quaker Windows & Doors won the under-1,000-vehicle category by running a disciplined spend program across 44 vehicles and nearly 300 days of active Motive Card use. The result: 4.3% in fuel savings, 22% in savings from declined transactions, and 76% of spend kept in-network.

National DCP, which runs the supply chain for Dunkin’ franchisees across 10,000 quick service restaurants and 40+ countries, won the over-1,000 category. At that scale, every percentage point is serious money. They captured 9% in card savings and 18.9% in fraud and waste-related savings across more than 300 days of active spend.

Excellence in Coaching Award

This award goes to organizations that moved beyond a compliance mindset and built genuine, AI-first coaching cultures — where feedback is fast, relevant, and actually works.

Siddons-Martin Emergency Group, which services fire and EMS providers across the country, reviewed nearly 80% of the 545 AI-identified safety events from 2025. In an industry where every second counts, that kind of responsiveness is the whole ballgame.

Consolidated Electrical Distributors won the over-1,000 category. With 700+ independent locations each moving at its own pace, getting alignment on anything is hard. Getting drivers to actively participate in coaching is harder. CED achieved the highest rate of reviewed coaching events of any Motive customer at their scale, and built a program that people actually want to be part of.

Safety Leader Award

This category honors organizations that logged serious miles while keeping accident rates exceptionally low, and/or drove the biggest year-over-year reductions in incidents.

Encore Luxury Coaching posted a 0.56 collisions per million miles in 2025 — the lowest rate of any mid-size fleet in our customer base, alongside a 52% drop in safety events. From wedding parties to artists on tour, their clients expect a certain standard. Encore delivers it on the road every day, and the data backs that up. 

FirstFleet, which operates 2,400+ tractors and 11,000 trailers in dedicated contract carriage, delivered a 63% reduction in critical safety events per million miles. Their drivers routinely go entire weeks without a single safety event.

Organizational Transformation Award

This category is about trajectory. Not a single data point, but two years of compounding improvement across the whole organization.

Kamps Logistics grew their average fleet Safety Score by 25.77% from 2024 to 2025, across 500 vehicles, and cut safety events per million miles by 35.6%. Score growth means driver behavior is changing. Event reduction means it’s showing up on the road.

Heartland runs 3,000 vehicles across landscaping and field services. Moving safety performance at that scale is a long-term commitment, not a project. They delivered a 23.78% gain in fleet safety score alongside a 26.8% reduction in safety events per million miles — and they’re still trending up.

Global Innovator Award

Our three Global Innovator Awards recognize leaders outside the U.S. who are setting the pace in their respective markets.

Mexico: Turismos y Autobuses México Toluca — a 122-vehicle passenger transit operation — cut safety events by 88.5% while increasing their fleet safety score by 11.1%. That combination of risk reduction and performance improvement is the benchmark for what AI-powered safety can do anywhere in the world.

Canada: STEP Energy Services operates in oil and gas, running 1,000+ vehicles year-round in harsh conditions. They held their collision rate to 1.2 per million miles and cut safety events by 17.5% — impressive results for a fleet that was already operating from a strong foundation.

The U.K.: Chyone Logistics runs 160 vehicles across overnight grocery delivery, same-day e-commerce, and dense urban multi-stop routes. Within ten days of enabling AI Dashcam Plus in-cab alerts, they dropped risky driving events by 67% — from 1,200 incidents to 400. And they’ve held that improvement ever since.

Congratulations to every winner who took the stage in Nashville. These results represent real decisions made by real leaders at every level, with measurable results in the field and on the road. We’re proud to power your operations and fleets, and can’t wait to keep building with you.

Learn more about Motive customer results and discover what else we launched in the Physical Operations Platform at Vision 26.