The company, based in Stoke-on-Trent and Tunbridge Wells, supplies nationwide commercial vehicle contract hire and fleet management solutions to organisations in the foodservice, catering, chilled food, pharmaceuticals, building products, leisure retail and brewing, office supplies and waste management sectors, as well as specialist logistics companies and own account operators.
Prohire has recruited Ashley Bourne as depot operations manager in Tunbridge Wells to further expand its operations. Joining from Redde Northgate, where he was branch manager for five years, Bourne will have 50 accounts to manage as well as run the daily operations of the depot, which involves the full rental process from on to off hire.
Kane Bowden, who has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial vehicle hire sector, most recently at Enterprise, joins Prohire as national account development manager responsible for the growth and share of key customers including Bunzl, Vow, Speedy, Greencore and Unipart.
Hannah Ridgway has been promoted to operations manager for the fleet compliance and administration department. She joined Prohire nine years ago in a temporary administration role. As well as providing direction and support to the team, Ridgway’s new role will enable her to focus on process development in areas of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Joining Ridgway as operations manager for technical services is Wayne Pheasey, previously regional fleet maintenance manager (Northwest) at Ryder. Pheasey’s new role will see him driving daily activities and strategies, while building customer relationships and contacts. He will support his leadership team to enhance the delivery of technical customer service.
The new technical services team leader is Jason Downes. He will be responsible for a ten-person team which manages the daily defect and breakdown management, vehicle off road uptime, cost control and authorisation and customer service. Downes joins Prohire from TIP trailer services, where he was a customer service specialist managing damage and maintenance repairs on 3,500 Amazon trailers.