As the year winds down and the festive season lights up, our roads come alive with bustling activity. For businesses with commercial fleets, this busy time offers the perfect opportunity to focus on proactive measures that keep drivers and vehicles safe during the December and January period. At Hollard, we’re […]
From unacknowledged drivers to award-winning kings of the road! Hollard Trucking has crowned two new Hollard Highway Heroes, recognising the best-performing truck and bus drivers on South Africa’s roads. On Friday, the grand finale for the ninth annual Hollard Highway Heroes competition was held at the Hollard campus in Parktown, […]
As the festive season gets underway, leading transport, logistics and integrated supply chain solutions company Unitrans, has much to celebrate. “Having five employees in the final of the Hollard Highway Heroes competition is testament to the high levels of professionalism and skill of our drivers,” says Derek Lewis, Chief Operating […]
Hollard Trucking’s transformative annual road safety competition, Hollard Highway Heroes, has for the first time crowned two heroes, one in trucking and the other in the bus category. Drivers Phineas Muhlanga from Reef Tankers and Gobatlamang J. Gabonewe from Megabus Kuruman were honoured as winners during the Hollard Highway Heroes […]
Truck and bus drivers are the unsung heroes on the highways and byways of South Africa. They play an instrumental role in connecting people with their wares, ensuring the efficient transport of merchandise and keeping our economy going. Hollard’s annual Highway Heroes competition aims to shine a spotlight on these […]
Truck drivers are vulnerable to considerable cardiovascular and other risk factors, exacerbated by a sedentary lifestyle, limited access to healthy food at rest stops, and sleep disruption. Their frequency of being overweight or obese is also double that seen in the general population. This is according to a study of […]
Road fatalities are recognised as a national crisis, with 36 people on average dying on South African roads every day – and 85% of those accidents, many involving trucks, are blamed on driver error. It’s time to act. This is why Hollard Trucking, a specialist division of the Hollard Insurance […]
For Dorah Mabaso, being in the first cohort of Women Inspiring Women to Lead in Transport (WIWIT) students, an initiative to train women truck drivers, was “life-changing – and it still is”. “I’ve met with my best career ever,” says Mabaso, who drives for UD Trucks out of Boksburg, on […]
On the 14th of May, I had the privilege of joining friends from the Hollard Highway Heroes Campaign on a road trip from Johannesburg to Harrismith! We attended an activation at the largest Tuck Stop in Africa at Highway Junction. This was indeed very insightful, and it is only appropriate […]
The Transport Sector Retirement Fund (TSRF) today announced its support of the 2019 Hollard Highway Heroes competition to search for South Africa’s best truck driver. The TSRF was represented by Mandla Nkosi, a member of the Fund’s board of trustees, at the official launch of the Highway Heroes competition in […]
