Awards honor forward-thinking leaders across global industries and regions who have harnessed the power of AI to drive measurable safety, productivity, and profitability improvements across physical operations
Motive, AI platform for physical operations, recognized the outstanding achievements of its customers with the announcement of its 2026 Motive Visionary Customer Award winners. Unveiled live at Vision 26, Motive’s third annual innovation summit, the awards recognize industry leaders that leveraged the Motive platform to deliver extraordinary, measurable results that make their operations safer, more productive, and more profitable.
Meet the 2026 Motive Visionary Customer Award Winners
- Safety Leader Award: FirstFleet and Encore Luxury Coaching
- Organizational Transformation Award: Heartland and Kamps Logistics
- Bottom Line Savings Award: National DCP and Quaker Windows & Doors
- Excellence in Coaching Award: Consolidated Electrical Distributors and Siddons-Martin Emergency Group
- Global Innovator Award México: Turismos y Autobuses México Toluca
- Global Innovator Award Canada: STEP Energy Services
- Global Innovator Award U.K. Chyone Logistics
“The people running physical operations keep our global economy moving, and it is a privilege to celebrate the remarkable milestones our customers achieved this past year,” said Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive. “These inaugural awards honor the trailblazing leaders who are utilizing the Motive platform to protect their workers and transform their organizations on a global scale. Congratulations to our 2026 Motive Visionary Customer Award winners!”
These standout safety metrics and bottom-line savings highlight how this year’s winners transformed their day-to-day operations with Motive’s AI-powered platform.
- Quaker Windows & Doors: Delivered 4% in fuel savings and 22% savings from declined transactions, driven primarily by their effective use of spend controls with Motive Card.
- National DCP: Captured 9% in card savings and 19% in fraud and waste related savings with Motive Card.
- Siddons-Martin Emergency Group: Reviewed nearly 80% of the safety events Motive’s AI identified in 2025, building the muscle it takes to provide quick, relevant coaching in an industry where every second counts.
- Consolidated Electrical Distributors: Achieved the highest rate of reviewed coaching events across any Motive customer in their category. They built a program drivers want to be a part of and a coaching culture where every team member is committed to professional excellence.
- Encore Luxury Coaching: Achieved 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.
- FirstFleet: Achieved a 63% reduction in critical safety events and dramatic improvement in safety performance across their operation with exceptional progress in reducing fatigue-related driving events.
- Kamps Logistics: Drove a 26% increase in their average fleet Safety Score from 2024 through 2025, and a 36% reduction in safety events per million miles.
- Heartland: Delivered a 24% gain in fleet safety score from 2024 to 2025, alongside a 27% reduction in safety events per million miles.
- Turismos y Autobuses México Toluca: Decreased safety events by 89% and increased their fleet safety score by 11%, setting a global benchmark for what AI-powered safety can do.
- STEP Energy Services: Decreased safety events by 18% and held their collision rate to 1.2 per million miles.
- Chyone Logistics: Reduced risky driving events by 67% within ten days of enabling AI Dashcam Plus in-cab alerts.
Back in the heart of Music City, Vision 26 united more than 1,000 safety, operations, and finance leaders for an immersive, hands-on experience to show how AI and automation can transform physical operations to help make organizations safer, more productive, and more profitable.
To learn more about the 2026 Motive Visionary Customer Award honorees, visit our blog.
