{"id":26140,"date":"2025-09-26T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=26140"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:14:58","slug":"new-record-for-driver-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/new-record-for-driver-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"New Record for Driver Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Long-standing franchisor, Driver Hire, the leading supplier of temporary and permanent drivers and other staff to the road transport industry, has just celebrated its highest ever weekly turnover in its 40-plus year history.<\/p>\n<p>In Week 24 of the current financial year, its nationwide network of over 100, largely franchised offices, was 10% up on the same week last year and 6% ahead year-on-year. Within those headline figures, 54 offices \u2013 over half of Driver Hire\u2019s network \u2013 have achieved all-time record weeks so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on Driver Hire\u2019s outstanding year to date, CEO, Chris Chidley said: \u201cIt\u2019s a remarkable achievement given the wider economic challenges facing the UK at the moment. Individual offices \u2013 both those new to our network and the well-established &#8212; are delivering very impressive growth rates in every part of the country. Their success is based on a clear strategy to focus on those sectors and customers that remain busy. They understand the needs of their customers \u2013 that enables them to deliver the exceptional levels of service required to make business\u2019 want to work with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Driver Hire is the UK\u2019s largest specialist supplier with a nationwide network of franchised offices. It provides temporary and permanent drivers and other logistics staff to local and national organisations in both the public and private sector. If they\u2019re short of staff \u2013 perhaps because of illness, holidays or seasonal demand \u2013 Driver Hire will supply them with a suitable replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-standing franchisor, Driver Hire, the leading supplier of temporary and permanent drivers and other staff to the road transport industry, has just celebrated its highest ever weekly turnover in its 40-plus year history. In Week 24 of the current financial year, its nationwide network of over 100, largely franchised offices, was 10% up on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-driver-hire","category-recruitment-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Drivers--scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}