Launch of the European Excellence in Truck Parking Award 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 2023 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, IRU, ITF, ACEA, CLECAT, ECG, ESC, UETR, TVM, Dekra and Truckerslife, launched the 2023 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 safety, 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 new 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. The novelty this year is that our international jury will decide on two winners – one for small and one for large truck parking areas, thus democratising the process and opening the possibility for everyone to win.”

As a reminder, in 2022 the French Truck Etape Béziers parking facility was voted[1] European Truck Parking of the Year. In particular, the jury commended the completeness and excellence of the winner’s service offer to drivers and attention to the smallest details, including environment, health, recreation, affordability, and indeed individual care to every single driver.

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 10 February 2023. The winners and runners up will be unveiled at a public ceremony in March 2022.

“The ESPORG Award supports the EU standards for safe and secure truck parking areas, whilst at the same time promoting the best among them. We want to contribute further to their uptake 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 – all this for the benefit of both parking operators and drivers alike”, concluded Dirk Penasse, ESPORG’s General Manager.

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

• See the Award’s rules and criteria at esporg.eu/awards.
• Apply by making use of ESPORG’s electronic submission form at esporg.eu/awards/apply or by e-mail at awards@esporg.eu

[1] The members of ESPORG’s international jury are: Inès MAILLART, DG MOVE of the European Commission, Elene SHATBERASHVILI, International Transport Forum (ITF), Constantino CANU, CLECAT, Thomas Fabian, ACEA, Mike STURGEON, ECG, Carlo GIRO, IRU, Marco DIGIOIA, UETR, Peter Paul RUSCHIN, DEKRA, Anna KUZYNIN, TRUCKERSLIFE, Godfried SMIT, European Shippers Council, and Marc van GROOTEL, TVM.