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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
New business idea will put truck drivers into top gear
A Ballina man who is already one of the most successful businessmen in the West of Ireland is embarking on a new venture to match potential employers with qualified drivers who are available for work.
Tiernan Gill, who established Gills Driving School thirty-five years ago, has had the idea in the back of his mind for a long time that there is a need for a Driver Employment Agency in the West of Ireland.
“I have quite a number of truck owners contacting me and asking if I knew of anyone who had recently passed the artic. licence and who was looking for a job,” he said.
He added that qualified drivers were very hard got at present and potential employers often had to go through a lengthy process of advertising and interviewing on a number of occasions before they got the right person.
Tiernan Gill says what he intends to do is to interview drivers who are looking for jobs and then to rate them - one to ten - on a number of factors including driving ability and personality.
He said the agency, which is the first of its kind in Connacht, presents a lot of advantages for both the employee and the employer. For example, for the employee it opens up a wide range of opportunities for jobs all over Connacht and for the employer it represents time and costs saved in interviewing and advertising.
The new business will be operated by Tiernan Gill, Snr. and Tiernan Gill, Jnr., who have been operating Gills Driving School in Ballina, Castlebar and Sligo for the last thirty-five years.
Tiernan Gill started his driving school with one car and twenty years ago he got a truck and coach. Now his school offers training in rigid trucks, artic trucks, minibuses, coaches, advanced driving and HAZCHEM training (for drivers of hazardous materials).
In addition they operate a driver theory programme for people preparing to sit the driving theory test and an extensive secondary schools/safe driving programme which last year alone saw them give tuition to 3,000 transition year students.
Gills also operate a successful oil and gas company and a company that supplies bedding for horses and employs more than twenty people at their headquarters in Ballina.
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