Hard to find drivers? Fullers sets up its own job agency
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• A logistics firm finding it difficult to recruit experienced drivers has set up its own employment agency Slough-based Fullers Training and Employment Services, part of Fullers Logistics Group Holdings, was founded "in a bid to ease the national shortage of commercial vehicle drivers".
It already has about 50 companies using its services from
firms running just one vehicle to more well-known clients such as Flays Distribution and Parcelforce. Brian Bull, Fullers training and employment services manager, explains: "Fullers runs 100plus vehicles and, like every other operator in the transport industry, has historically found It difficult to recruit experienced drivers of the right calibre. So we have taken the unusual step of setting up our own recruitment and training operation."
lie adds: "We already have more than 50 drivers on the books working on a variety of temporary and permanent assignments." Bull says drivers can expect to earn between £6 and £7 per hour depending on where they are based: "We nave to pay realistic rates to attract the right drivers."