Hiring a truck driver can be an unnecessarily difficult process when dealing with informal hiring services or individual drivers directly. These difficulties can easily be obviated by referring using professional outsourcers such as MASA.
When using a professional service provider, all the necessary prerequisites are attended to by the outsourcing company itself. These checks involve driver qualifications and legitimacy, as well as the specific skills needed in specialised haulage and logistics operations.
If you need a driver for hire in Durban or any other urban centre, your needs are met with maximum efficiency and cost effectiveness through:
1. Legitimacy
Your outsourcer will do the necessary checks regarding valid licences and permits across the range, including:
- Code 8, 10, 11 and 14
- Hazchem drivers
- Forklift drivers
- Reach truck drivers
- Bendi drivers
- Long-haul drivers
Outsourcers dispose of the necessary instruments to validate and update these requirements, and to ensure that proper background checks are implemented.
2. Quality considerations
The next important step is to make sure that the driver in question complies with industry standards in terms of real-life driving experience and the ability to perform efficiently in specialised operations such as the transportation of flammable commodities.
Quality considerations should always include ongoing and updated training in new logistics methodologies and techniques. These can’t usually be carried out by clients seeking drivers but are part of the standard procedures performed by professional outsourcing service providers.
3. Range and ready availability
In selecting a company through which your driver requirements can be met, a crucial step is to make sure that your preferred outsourcer has a nationwide presence, a broad range of driver capabilities, and ready availability of drivers that are suitable for the task.
MASA offers all the services you might need, and has a countrywide operational presence. Drivers for hire in Durban and elsewhere can easily be accessed through local offices, which are established in all the important South African urban centres.
4. Consultation
Once you have ascertained that your outsource company is able to provide these checks, verifications and training systems, your next step is to contact them for preliminary consultation.
Because MASA has more than 40 years’ experience in the staffing and outsourcing industry, your specialised consultation with their drivers’ division will make available to you decades of know-how and operational advice tailored to your particular needs.
In the field of driver expertise, MASA offers, among others, the following driver services:
- Automotive
- Oil and gas
- Live animals and produce
- Construction and mining
- Courier and delivery
- Food and beverage
- Manufacturing and engineering
- Hospitality and tourism
- Chemical and fertilizer
MASA will be happy to discuss your needs in these and other logistical domains, and offer the package that proves most suitable to your own range of transportation needs.
5. Contact
Whatever your driving needs may be, and knowing what you now know about the quality and scope of services offered, the quickest and easiest steps to hire a truck driver really only needs one step after all.
Contact MASA via their website or alternative contact channels in all the centres where their services are ranked among the leaders in the world of outsourced driver skills.
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