A direct-hire UK driving and transport recruitment desk. Long briefs, properly vetted shortlists, one named consultant.
Cross Drive Recruitment runs permanent driving and transport hires for the operators that move UK freight, parcels, retail stock, fuel, food and people. The roles range from a 7.5T trade-counter driver on a 4-on / 4-off pattern through to a transport director with full O-licence responsibility.
The team has run searches in this space for over a decade. We work UK-wide and our network reaches across the major depot corridors, parcel hubs, regional distribution centres, fuel and food tankering operators, and PCV fleets.
The person who picks up your call runs your search end to end. No researcher in the back room. No handover when you sign the contract. The phone number you dial first is the phone number you dial all the way through to the day-90 check-in.
We sit in the briefing call long enough to understand the depot, the manager, the shift pattern, the route profile, the offer process and the make-or-break qualities. We would rather take a fortnight to deliver three good drivers than a week to deliver eight average ones.
The same depots we serve live and die by paperwork. So do we. Driver licences, CPC hours, ADR and PDP endorsements, tachograph history, accident records and right-to-work all confirmed before a CV reaches you.
Send CVs we have not vetted. Inflate driver-rate expectations to win the brief. Pretend a driver is two weeks away when we can see they are six. Pull a driver from one of your competitors without their explicit, written consent. Run a search where we do not believe the rate attracts a strong candidate.
Transport managers, depot managers, operations directors and HR business partners at UK transport operators who want one named consultant who knows their business. SMEs, mid-market, parcel networks and the UK arms of multinational operators all sit comfortably with us.
Every permanent placement comes with a 12-week replacement guarantee. If a hire does not stay, we re-run the search at no additional fee. The terms are written into the engagement letter, not buried in T&Cs.