Why Choose the Driver Hire Franchise
Driver Hire franchisee, Rod Halling, looked at 600 businesses before deciding to buy his Driver Hire recruitment business. His in-depth research is further confirmation that this B2B management franchise is one of the leaders in the franchise industry.
“My search had three key criteria,” says Rod. “I was looking for: a proven business with realistic potential for further growth; it had to be in the South West area and I wanted something that followed a sound business model -- a lower risk, secure investment. Because I wasn’t looking for anything in particular I investigated all the local ‘business for sale’ opportunities.”
Rod is no stranger to self employment. He’d worked in the music business for 20 years, owned a backpackers’ hostel in Cornwall, run a specialist furniture shop and then moved from bricks to clicks, selling financial services online. Hence his long search to find the perfect opportunity for his next entrepreneurial venture.
A successful franchise for thirty years
Driver Hire is a recruitment business franchise, a B2B management franchise with over 100 offices nationwide. The business has been running successfully for over 30 years, and franchising since 1987. It is the UK’s largest specialist in its field, providing temporary and permanent drivers and other logistics staff to local and national organisations in both the public and private sector.
Franchisees running a Driver Hire franchise provide a 24/7 temporary and permanent recruitment service. They help customers, for example, if a driver is off sick or on holiday and they also save them money by helping them to strategically plan their staffing levels – providing a flexible workforce to meet customer demands.
Benefits of a franchised business
Becoming a franchisee hasn’t really changed Rod’s life, as he is accustomed to being his own boss. However, one thing he has come to value highly is the benefit of belonging to a network.
“I’m a serial attendee at Driver Hire’s territory meetings. It’s great because I get to meet up with people who are in and understand my business, but who I’m not competing against.”
Nor has Rod’s lack of direct experience in recruitment been a barrier to success. Driver Hire’s franchise support package includes a two-week intensive training programme to prepare new franchisees ahead of starting their business. Once it is up and running there is full support to ensure that the franchisee is a success. It covers administrative functions such as invoicing and payroll; a bespoke IT system that takes care of bookings, candidate and customer records, and helps to ensure legislative compliance; a national accounts team that delivers centrally-won business opportunities; a marketing team provide a steady stream of professional marketing resources and every office has a dedicated Area Development Manager to call on.
Having started franchising in 1987 and won bfa ‘Franchisor of the Year’ awards in 2015, 2012 and 2006, Driver Hire provides an outstanding B2B franchise opportunity for anyone looking to run their own business in the recruitment sector. It’s worth noting that the average turnover for a UK franchise is £378.4k. For a Driver Hire franchise the average in 2015/16 was £1.077m.
Future
Five years down the line Rod certainly doesn’t regret picking Driver Hire out of the 600 options he looked through; he’d definitely do it again. Since buying what was already a successful franchise business he’s taken turnover past the £1.5m mark (in the financial year 2013/14). In fact, since buying the business in 2011, he’s increased turnover by a remarkable 262%.
“One of the best things about being a Driver Hire franchisee is interacting with drivers, clients and staff – it’s the people aspect that I really enjoy. Of course the profits at the end are a positive bonus too!”
£1.5m last year and the year before (£1.8m and £1.9m roughly, from memory).
I think that overall we have been over 400% up at times.
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