The recruitment of driving personnel remains one of the central challenges for transport companies in road freight transport. The forwarding company Gebrüder Schröder from Ebernhahn has reacted and implemented the recruitment platform Spedijobs – and reports significantly better response rates to job advertisements.
As the company states, the use of the platform has proven itself in practice.
"Finding suitable personnel had become brutally difficult in the past five years. For some job advertisements, we no longer received even a single application," says Julius Altmann, Assistant to the
Management.
According to Schröder, one advertisement and a few days' waiting time are now usually enough to receive 35 to 40 applications. This generally results in one or two hires.
The forwarding company specializes in partial and dangerous goods loads as well as construction site logistics with piggyback forklifts. Despite economic fluctuations, demand has remained stable, but personnel recruitment has increasingly proven to be a bottleneck. Initial attempts through common online portals were largely unsuccessful according to the company. Only the introduction of Spedijobs made a noticeable
difference.
The platform marketed by Inn-ovativ is specifically tailored to transport and logistics companies. It promises users can create professional job advertisements in a few steps using artificial intelligence. Translation into up to 13 languages and distribution over more than 160 internet portals ensure reach. Companies can also integrate their own website – an aspect that Schröder also uses.
"The integration offers us the chance to attract more people to our website and thus give them a better impression of our company," Altmann explains.
This results in
strategic flexibility for the company. If the need for personnel rises in the short term, Schröder can quickly react and place additional advertisements. The response rate has now become predictable – compared to earlier, when only two to four applications per year came through their own website.
From Schröder's perspective, it is clear: digital solutions like Spedijobs are a practical way for medium-sized companies to actively address the driver shortage. The platform not only increases reach but also enables a more targeted approach to the target audience.
