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Lisa Fleming, managing director of Darlington Driver
Hire, based on Aycliffe Business Park, with her bronze
award for achieving a £300,000-plus turnover.
DRIVER HIRE
WINS NATIONAL
TURNOVER AWARD
But an alarming shortage of drivers in the
industry means the company is turning
away around £3,000-a-week extra in sales.
Driver Hire Darlington, a franchise of
the national network based on Aycliffe
Business Park, has won the firm’s
prestigious Bronze Achievement Award for
outstanding sales performance.
The UK’s largest specialist supplier, Driver
Hire provides temporary and permanent
drivers and other logistics staff to local and
national organisations in both the public
and private sector.
If they’re short of staff – through illness,
holidays or seasonal demand – Driver
Hire will supply them with a suitable
replacement.
Lisa Fleming bought Driver Hire’s DL
franchise in 2011, started out as a sole
business with a small army of drivers and
with an annual turnover of £220,000 in
year ending December 2011 which rose
to £240,000 in 2012 and then more than
£300,000 at the end of 2013.
Driver Hire Darlington, based in Carlton
House at the HUB Workspace on the park,
now has more than 100 drivers on the
books and supplies them to around 30 )