A DERBYSHIRE haulage firm is looking for dozens of HGV drivers after winning a tasty new contract to deliver goods for Tesco.
NR Evans' Hilton site needs 50 new truckers to keep up with the increased workload the new deal will bring.
It already delivers more than £1 billion pounds' worth of goods around the country every year.
The new deal to shift groceries for Tesco is likely
to boost this figure by millions.
In the last two years, the company has gone from strength to strength.
A specialist in delivering chilled goods, it has invested in its people and vehicles but delivering to the country's largest supermarket chain requires a 50% increase in staffing levels at Hilton.
The company, which has its headquarters in Carmarthenshire, is also planning to take on more people at its sites in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, and at its three bases in Wales.
As more drivers are taken on, NR Evans is also planning to start recruiting more people in management, planning, supervisory and administrative roles.
A spokesman for NR Evans said: "We have been using a lot of agency staff but the additional workload means that we need to employ people ourselves on a full-time basis.
"The Hilton site is running more than 120 vehicles and more than 100 drivers at the moment.
"All the vehicles are less than three years old and we are offering flexible shift patterns.
"This is a 24-hour operation and so if drivers want to start work at 2am or at any other time, then we will probably be able to accommodate them."
As well as Tesco, the company delivers millions of pints of milk for Foston-based Dairy Crest and TJ Morris, the company behind growing discount retailer Home Bargains.
Since the 1990s, NR Evans has grown from a one-man operation to a specialist distribution firm employing more than 500 people in England and Wales.
The company believes that the industry as a whole is suffering at the moment from a shortage of drivers because there has not been enough focus on encouraging people to develop a career in logistics.
An NR Evans spokesman said: "There are opportunities for people with the ambition to develop their careers here.
"There are a number of people here at NR Evans who are now in management positions who started out on the road as drivers."
