Hollard Highway Heroes

Winners announced
14 November 2025

How the competition works?

Here’s everything you need to know to become a Hollard Highway Hero.
Competition Timeline & Entry Info

Entries open: 1st April 2025

Entries period: 1st April – 31st May 2025

Open to both bus and truck drivers

The full competition runs over 7 months

Prizes & Winner Selection

Category Winners:

  • 5 drivers will be selected per category
  • Each truck category winner gets R80,000
  • Each bus category winner gets R35,000

Overall Winners:

  • From the top 5 drivers per category, 1 Hollard Highway Hero will be crowned
  • Truck Hero wins R330,000
  • Bus Hero wins R165,000

Choose a Category

Select the category in which you want to enter:

Optix’s Partnership with Hollard

Optix is proud to partner with Hollard Highway Heroes, a campaign that not only celebrates excellence in professional driving but also embodies the very essence of what we stand for as a brand. The values at the heart of this competition—safety, skill, responsibility, and recognition—are deeply aligned with our own commitment to getting every driver safely home. As the official technology partner, we are equipping the vehicles of all competition finalists with our solutions, enabling real-time insights into driver behaviour, promoting accountability, and supporting continuous improvement. This partnership matters because it showcases the transformative role technology can play in saving lives and elevating the status of professional drivers. We are honoured to support each Hollard Highway Hero on their journey and remain steadfast in our belief that every journey should end in safety.

10 Years of Hollard Highway Heroes

 

Celebrating 10 years of driving excellence on South Africa’s roads

Hollard Trucking is thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of championing road safety! Since 2015, Hollard Highway Heroes has helped make South Africa’s roads safer. This transformative annual competition celebrates exceptional drivers who go above and beyond in not only delivering their cargo and passengers safely, and on time, but also safeguarding other road users and the livelihoods of all those who depend on those deliveries.

Hollard Highway Heroes aims to enhance road safety. On average, 36 people die on our roads every day – and 85% of those accidents are blamed on driver error. Hollard Highway Heroes, through the clever use of technology, aims to drastically reduce the potential for driver error among truck and bus drivers.

This year the competition is bigger and better than ever. We’re giving more drivers the life-changing chance to win their share of over R1-million in cash prizes, and we’re challenging thousands more to make safe driving a habit. Because safer roads mean better futures for everyone.

Looking back at your Hollard Highway Heroes for 2024:

Abner Galane

Category: Champion of Change – Truck

Peter Backford

Category: Champion of Change – Bus