Recruiting drivers remains one of the central challenges for transport companies in road freight transport. The forwarding company Gebrüder Schröder from Ebernhahn has responded by implementing the recruitment platform Spedijobs – and reports significantly better response rates to job advertisements.
According to the company, the use of the platform has proven effective in practice.
“Finding suitable personnel has become brutally difficult over the past five years. For some job ads, we didn't even receive a single application,” says Julius Altmann, assistant to the management.
According to
Schröder, one advertisement and a few days of waiting are now enough to receive 35 to 40 applications on average. This usually results in one to two hires.
The forwarding company specializes in partial and hazardous goods loads as well as construction site logistics with piggyback forklifts. Despite economic fluctuations, demand is stable, but recruitment has increasingly proven to be a bottleneck. Initial attempts through common online portals were largely unsuccessful, according to the company. It was only the introduction of Spedijobs that made a noticeable
difference.
The platform marketed by Inn-ovativ is specifically tailored to transport and logistics companies. It promises that users can create professional job advertisements in just a few steps using artificial intelligence. Translation into up to 13 languages and distribution via more than 160 internet portals ensure reach. Companies can also integrate their own website – an aspect that Schröder also uses.
“Embedding offers us the opportunity to get more people to visit our website and thus give them a better impression of our company,” explains Altmann.
This results in strategic flexibility for the business. If the personnel demand increases at short notice, Schröder can react quickly and place additional ads. The response has now become predictable – compared to earlier, when only two to four applications came in through the company's own website per year.
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
