Kieran Smith
LONDON
Kieran Smith is CEO of Driver Require Ltd, a specialist supplier of professional commercial temporary drivers. Driver Require was founded in 2000 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and Kieran took over leadership of the company in 2007, coming from a background in entrepreneurial ventures and supply chain improvement management consultancy. Since then, he has grown the company to a multi-million-pound operation, serving haulage clients across the Home Counties and East Midlands, following a simple philosophy based on trust, professionalism, full compliance, and outstanding customer service.
Over the past 3 years Driver Require has established itself as an industry thought leader, following key events affecting the haulage sector, producing reports on the perceived HGV driver shortage, the impact of IR35 reforms on the professional blue-collar agency sector and the impact of COVID-19 on the UK haulage sector. Consequently, in early 2021, Driver Require set up a Think Tank of respected haulage sector experts to co-develop and validate a series of reports and bulletins constituting the most extensive and accurate study of the UK HGV driver pool dynamics ever produced and provides unbiased revealing insights into the causes, nature and potential solutions to the current HGV driver shortage.