Business Excellence Award Winner Spotlight

Large Business of the Year & Business Team of the Year: Summit Express

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the 2026 Business Excellence Awards!  We're proud to spotlight our winners and share their successes.

Summit Express: Built on Service, Strengthened by Teamwork

For more than 15 years, Summit Express has helped residents, visitors, businesses, and organizations travel throughout Colorado safely, comfortably, and reliably. What began as a small, family-owned transportation company with three vehicles has grown into one of Colorado’s trusted providers of airport, private, group, wedding, and event transportation.

In recognition of that growth and the people behind it, Summit Express was honored with two Summit Chamber of Commerce 2025 Business Excellence Awards: Best Team of the Year and Best Large Company of the Year. These awards represent far more than business success. They recognize the dedication, professionalism, and teamwork of the employees who keep Summit Express moving every day.

Summit Express was founded by Bob and Jackie Roppel with a vision to provide dependable mountain transportation supported by exceptional guest service. Today, the company remains a family-owned, woman veteran-owned company led by professionals with extensive airline operations and ground transportation experience. This background has shaped the company’s focus on safety, discipline, communication, and reliable service.

The Summit Express team includes professional drivers, dispatchers, sales representatives, maintenance personnel, and operational leaders. Each department plays a critical role in creating a seamless transportation experience. From coordinating complex group itineraries to monitoring weather, traffic, and flight changes, the team works together to solve challenges and care for every guest.

That commitment to teamwork has allowed Summit Express to expand well beyond traditional airport shuttle transportation. The company provides customized transportation for corporate retreats, conferences, weddings, special events, family reunions, school groups, destination celebrations, and large group movements throughout Colorado.

Whether a group needs transportation between hotels and meeting venues, airport transfers for attendees arriving on multiple flights, transportation for a mountain wedding, or coordinated service for a multi-day event, Summit Express creates a plan tailored to the group’s schedule and needs.

Summit Express also offers shared airport shuttle and private transportation services between Denver International Airport and Colorado’s mountain communities. Private car service is available for travelers seeking a more personalized airport experience, including service to and from Denver International Airport and Eagle County Regional Airport. With a diverse fleet that includes SUVs, passenger vans, and mini-coach buses, Summit Express can accommodate individual travelers as well as groups of varying sizes.

Winning Best Team of the Year and Best Large Company of the Year reflects the company’s continued investment in its employees, fleet, technology, safety programs, and guest experience. It also reinforces the importance of maintaining a locally based transportation provider that understands Colorado’s mountain roads, changing weather, busy travel seasons, and unique destinations. As Summit Express looks toward the future, its mission remains clear: provide safe, reliable, and exceptional transportation while building a disciplined, accountable team that delivers memorable guest experiences.

Planning transportation for a wedding, conference, corporate retreat, special event, or large group? Let Summit Express handle the logistics so your guests can focus on the experience. Contact Summit Express to request a customized group transportation proposal and discover how effortless traveling throughout Colorado can be.