ACT Expo is now accepting nominations for the 2026 ACT Expo Fleet Awards, which honor fleet operators demonstrating exceptional leadership in advanced transportation. The Fleet Awards recognize organizations achieving excellence through innovative technologies, efficient operations, improved safety, and strong environmental performance.
The 2026 awards will highlight fleets advancing the commercial transportation industry by setting new benchmarks for modern fleet excellence. From performance gains and fuel savings to stronger safety practices, digital transformation, and improved environmental outcomes, the awards celebrate organizations delivering measurable progress through real-world operations.
New for 2026, the Digital Technology Innovation Leader award spotlights fleet organizations transforming operations through the strategic use of digital technologies, including AI, telematics, automation, data analytics, and other advanced tools. This category recognizes fleets actively deploying and integrating digital innovations to improve safety, efficiency, reliability, and environmental performance.
2026 ACT Expo Fleet Award Categories
- Digital Technology Innovation Leader – Recognizes fleet organizations transforming operations through the strategic use of digital technologies to deliver meaningful improvements across safety, efficiency, reliability, and environmental performance.
- In It for the Long Haul – Celebrates organizations with a long-standing, demonstrated commitment to advancing cleaner, smarter, and more efficient transportation while delivering environmental, business, and community benefits.
- Leading Private Fleet – Recognizes private fleets making exceptional progress in deploying advanced technologies, optimizing operations, and improving economic and environmental performance.
- Leading Public Fleet – Honors government fleet operators modernizing operations through innovative technology adoption, efficiency gains, and forward-looking strategies that deliver environmental, economic, and public-service benefits.
- Leading Shipper – Celebrates shippers improving efficiency, resilience, and environmental performance across domestic or global logistics networks.
- Leading Carrier – Recognizes carriers transforming freight operations through innovative equipment strategies, digital tools, fuel and energy leadership, and operational excellence.
- Leading Global Fleet – Honors multinational fleets advancing next-generation fleet strategies while navigating diverse markets and regulatory environments.
- Leading Off-Road Fleet – Recognizes organizations deploying innovative off-road technologies and practices to improve productivity, safety, environmental performance, and economic outcomes in heavy-duty settings.
The ACT Expo Fleet Awards continue to showcase organizations leading the transition toward more efficient, safer, and environmentally responsible commercial transportation. Fleets across public and private sectors are encouraged to participate by nominating organizations that exemplify leadership and innovation across today’s evolving transportation landscape.
The 2025 ACT Expo Fleet Awards winners included:
- Leading Public Fleet – DeKalb County Fleet Management: Led by Deputy Director Robert Gordon, DeKalb County (Georgia) operates a diverse fleet that includes fire apparatus, police cruisers, refuse trucks, motorcycles, and construction vehicles powered by electric, propane, compressed natural gas (CNG), and plug-in hybrid technologies. Since 2012, the county has reduced diesel consumption by more than 1.8 million gallons and expanded infrastructure with CNG fueling stations and more than 70 Level 2 EV chargers available to both employees and the public.
- Leading Private Fleet – Republic Services, Inc.: Under the leadership of Brett Rogers, Republic Services has deployed more than 60 Class 8 electric waste and recycling trucks and 15 electric support vehicles, along with over 300 DC and AC charging ports at its facilities. The company also launched North America’s first 100% electric refuse fleet and plans for 50% of new vehicle purchases to be electric or alternatively fueled by 2028, alongside a diverse strategy that includes natural gas vehicles.
- Leading Shipper – Unilever: Unilever’s sustainability efforts across its logistics operations earned the Leading Shipper award. The company collaborates with carrier partners that use renewable natural gas (RNG) trucks and works to reduce supply chain emissions, including initiatives to optimize packing, reduce container and truck volumes, and pilot electric trucks through EV100+ partnerships.
- In It for the Long Haul – Portland General Electric: Portland General Electric (PGE) has a longstanding commitment to renewable energy and fleet electrification, integrating EVs since 1996 and electrifying 18% of its more than 1,000-vehicle fleet. PGE is also expanding EV charging infrastructure statewide and upgrading telematics to optimize vehicle health and EV use, while setting ambitious decarbonization goals for future fleet electrification.
The 2026 ACT Expo Fleet Awards will be presented at ACT Expo, May 4–7, 2026, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Nominate a fleet today!
Key Takeaways
- ACT Expo is now accepting nominations for the 2026 ACT Expo Fleet Awards, recognizing fleet leadership in advanced transportation, operational excellence, safety, and environmental performance.
- A new Digital Technology Innovation Leader category for 2026 highlights fleets using AI, telematics, automation, and data analytics to improve real-world operations.
- The awards span public, private, shipper, carrier, global, and off-road fleets, reflecting the broad range of organizations advancing modern fleet strategies.
- Winners of the 2026 ACT Expo Fleet Awards will be announced at ACT Expo, taking place May 4–7, 2026, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
