{"id":3761,"date":"2020-01-02T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T15:48:50","slug":"manager-buys-driver-hire-recruitment-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/manager-buys-driver-hire-recruitment-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager Buys Driver Hire Recruitment Franchise"},"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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Parker likes working for Driver Hire Wakefield, the leading transport and logistics recruitment company. In fact, she likes it so much, she&#8217;s bought the business. A recruitment professional with 15 years&#8217; experience, Sarah was the branch manager for the previous owners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cI love working for Driver Hire and have wanted to buy the business for some time,\u201d says Sarah. \u201cI know how to run it; I know how successful it is. When the previous owners announced they were selling, it was a great opportunity and I didn&#8217;t want to miss it. I&#8217;m really excited.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Graham Duckworth, Driver Hire&#8217;s Franchise Sales Director commented:<\/strong> <em>\u201cWe&#8217;re delighted to welcome Sarah to our franchised network. She&#8217;s one of a number of office managers who&#8217;ve taken the opportunity to buy the business they&#8217;ve been working for. We&#8217;re confident Sarah will be another highly successful Driver Hire franchisee<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Sarah added:<\/strong> <em>\u201cThere&#8217;s plenty of potential here in Wakefield. I&#8217;m looking forward to growing the business further by meeting the staffing needs of any local businesses, and indeed any organisation, which operates a fleet of vehicles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established for over 30 years, Driver Hire is the current British Franchise Association (bfa) HSBC \u2018Franchisor of the Year&#8217;. Its franchisees provide temporary and permanent drivers and other logistics staff to local and national organisations in both the public and private sector. If they&#8217;re short of staff &#8211; perhaps because of illness, holidays or seasonal demand &#8211; Driver Hire will supply them with a suitable replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Parker likes working for Driver Hire Wakefield, the leading transport and logistics recruitment company. In fact, she likes it so much, she&#8217;s bought the business. A recruitment professional with 15 years&#8217; experience, Sarah was the branch manager for the previous owners. \u201cI love working for Driver Hire and have wanted to buy the business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","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\/2020\/01\/Sarah-Parker.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}