Practical guidance on permanent hiring and careers across transport, logistics and supply chain — driver recruitment strategy, licence and CPC guides, salary benchmarks, local market intelligence and industry analysis, written by consultants who recruit these roles every day.
How to win in a competitive driver market — attracting, assessing, costing and keeping permanent people.
The real reasons your driver vacancies stay open — and the practical changes to the advert, package and process that fix them.
Read more →An end-to-end guide to recruiting permanent HGV drivers: defining the role, pricing the package, sourcing, vetting and onboarding.
Read more →An empty seat is never free. Here is how to price overtime, subcontracting, missed windows and management time honestly.
Read more →An honest breakdown of what rotating cover really costs a core fleet — and where short-term cover still genuinely earns its place.
Read more →Why drivers actually leave, what it costs to replace them, and the operational changes that keep good people in the cab.
Read more →Beyond the licence: the judgement, care and customer instinct that separate a safe pair of hands from a genuine asset.
Read more →Questions that reveal how a driver actually thinks about safety, hours, pressure and customers — and what good answers sound like.
Read more →Licence categories, DVLA checks, Driver CPC and DQC, tacho cards, medicals and right to work — everything to verify before day one.
Read more →Where the best planners are, what good looks like, the role of the CPC, and how to assess genuine planning skill at interview.
Read more →Why permanent retention is your cheapest hiring strategy — and how career paths, leadership, culture and pay keep good people in post.
Read more →Indicative permanent salary ranges across warehouse, transport planning, supply chain, procurement and fulfilment — plus what really moves pay.
Read more →Customs talent is scarce in the post-Brexit market. Understand the skills shortage and how to attract experienced forwarders.
Read more →Straight answers on getting qualified, staying compliant and building a driving career worth having.
The full route from provisional entitlement to your first permanent seat — medical, theory, practical, Initial CPC and choosing a trainer.
Read more →What Driver CPC is, the 35-hour periodic training cycle, who is exempt, and how to keep your entitlement current.
Read more →When to start, what counts towards your hours, and how to avoid the gap that stops you driving professionally.
Read more →What the D4 medical covers, how often you need one, and what common conditions mean for a vocational licence.
Read more →How ADR is structured, which modules matter for which work, and why the ticket is one of the best-paid additions to a licence.
Read more →Lorry-loader training, the card schemes, refresher cycles and the work a HIAB ticket opens up.
Read more →Driving limits, breaks, daily and weekly rest, and how the Working Time rules sit alongside drivers' hours.
Read more →What the upgrade involves, how to fund it, and how to land that first artic role once you hold the licence.
Read more →What transport managers actually look for, how to present licences and tickets, and the mistakes that cost interviews.
Read more →An honest look at the pay, the hours, the lifestyle and the long-term prospects before you commit to training.
Read more →Transport planning, driver training, supervision, the CPC route to transport manager — where a driving career can lead next.
Read more →What the driver market actually looks like region by region — the corridors, the employers and the work.
A national overview of the driver market — the freight corridors that drive demand and how hiring differs by region.
Read more →The M6 and M5 corridors, Hams Hall and Birch Coppice — who hires drivers across the West Midlands and what the work looks like.
Read more →DIRFT, Magna Park and the M1/M6/A14 triangle — the densest distribution market in the UK and the toughest to hire in.
Read more →Trafford Park, the M60 orbital and the Warrington corridor — how the North West driver market works.
Read more →Where the M1 meets the M62 — Wakefield Europort, Sherburn-in-Elmet and the Humber ports feeding Yorkshire freight.
Read more →London Gateway, Tilbury and the Channel ports — plus the DVS and Lorry Control rules that shape driving in the capital.
Read more →The UK's biggest container port, the A14 corridor and the agricultural freight that defines East of England driving work.
Read more →Eurocentral, the M8 corridor and Grangemouth — plus what distance and geography mean for Scottish driving work.
Read more →Our position on how specialist, permanent recruitment should work — and what is changing in the market.
Specialist-only, permanent-only, compliance verified before introduction — the decisions behind how we work and why they matter.
Read more →What a consultant who understands tacho rules, O-licences and shift patterns sees that a generalist never will.
Read more →Automation, the ageing driver demographic, electrification and data skills — and what employers must change to compete.
Read more →Automation, resilience, data skills and shifting candidate expectations — and what forward-thinking employers should do about them.
Read more →Automation and MHE are reshaping the fulfilment floor. Here are the new roles, the skills in demand and how to hire for them.
Read more →Whether you're hiring or looking for your next permanent role, our specialist consultants are ready to help.