2024 Edition ESPORG Award Launched

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Brussels, 19 October 2023

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ESPORG, together with its public and private partners, from the European Commission, International Transport Forum, ACEA, IRU, CLECAT, ECG, ESC, UETR, TVM, Dekra and Truckerslife, launches the 2024 edition of its Excellence in Truck Parking Award.

Today, ESPORG, the European Secure Truck Parking Organisation, with its public and private partners from the European Commission, ITF, ACEA, IRU, CLECAT, ECG, ESC, UETR, TVM, Dekra and Truckerslife, launched the 2024 edition of its Excellence in Truck Parking Award, with the objective to promote safety, security, quality, connectivity and care in providing services to professional truck drivers when using safe and secure truck parking areas.

The aim of the European Truck Parking Award is to promote excellence and to help spread good practices in view of improving security and quality of services offered by truck parking operators to professional truck drivers, and, by doing so, to enhance the attractiveness and appeal of the driver profession to an increasingly diverse and wider public, including young people and women.

Michael Nielsen, President of ESPORG, said: “We are proud to launch this now third edition of the Award, which aims at showcasing and promoting the best among our truck parking operators, and by the same token, contribute to resolutely improving the working conditions of professional lorry drivers across Europe.”

As a reminder, in 2023 the mowiz TRUCK Astigarraga and On Turtle La Jonquera truck parking areas were voted Europe’s Best Truck Parking Areas of the Year. 

Candidates can be small (up to 50 spaces) and large (more than 50 spaces) public and private truck parking areas, as well as road transport companies operating truck parking facilities, which have been audited and already satisfy one of the four levels of the EU-Parking Standard – Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. They must prepare a dossier in the English language and submit it by 2 February 2024. The winners and runners up will be unveiled at a public ceremony in the European Parliament on 6 March 2024.

“We want to contribute further to the uptake of the EU standards in Europe and beyond, whilst at the same time rewarding the abundance of excellence, which already exist in our business, and incentivise others to follow”, concluded Dirk Penasse, ESPORG’s General Manager.

For additional information, please contact: Dirk Penasse, e-mail at d.penasse@esporg.eu.