{"id":26469,"date":"2025-11-14T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=26469"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:15:27","slug":"driver-hire-backs-road-safety-week-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/driver-hire-backs-road-safety-week-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Hire backs Road Safety Week 2025"},"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>Leading transport and logistics recruitment company, Driver Hire and its nationwide network of franchisees, is once again, supporting Road Safety Week. The event, which takes place this year from 16th \u2013 22nd November, is organised by the road safety charity, Brake. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day of the year four people set off on what is probably a routine journey, never to return. It\u2019s an immeasurable tragedy for their family, colleagues, and friends,\u201d says John Keelan-Edwards, MD at Driver Hire Training, the training arm of Driver Hire. \u201cIt equates to 1,600 deaths a year, with around 30,000 people seriously injured. These figures have remained stubbornly high for more than a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continues: \u201cAs one of the leading suppliers of temporary drivers to the road transport and logistics industry, Driver Hire franchisees have around 2,500 drivers out on the road every day. Clearly, they want to ensure their safety and the safety of all other road-users, especially the more vulnerable \u2013 pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders and motorcyclists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Road Safety Week theme is \u2018Safe vehicles save lives.\u2019 It highlights how the right vehicle checks and technology can prevent crashes and protect lives. Driver Hire Training courses help them do this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy directing clients and drivers onto Driver Hire Training courses, Driver Hire franchisees are  helping to ensure that every journey is as safe as possible \u2014 because safe vehicles and safe drivers save lives,\u201d John concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading transport and logistics recruitment company, Driver Hire and its nationwide network of franchisees, is once again, supporting Road Safety Week. The event, which takes place this year from 16th \u2013 22nd November, is organised by the road safety charity, Brake. \u201cEvery day of the year four people set off on what is probably a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26469","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\/11\/RSW-2025.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469","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=26469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}