Transport Recruitment Agency in Belgium

Archetype recruits sales, marketing and leadership roles for Belgian transport companies: road hauliers, van rental firms, leasing and fleet management companies, mobility operators. Our core business is sales, marketing and management profiles, which account for over 90% of our assignments. We work in French, Dutch and English, on a retainer, with an average of 12 weeks from signing the assignment to the candidate signing, and a 6-month replacement guarantee. The firm has been running since 1993.

Fleet manager and account manager beside electric vans in a depot — Belgium had 908,169 goods vehicles of 3.5 tonnes or less in 2025, according to Eurostat.

Fleets are growing and changing fuel

According to Eurostat vehicle stock data, Belgium keeps adding light goods vehicles, and the electric ones more than quadrupled between 2021 and 2025. For a salesperson, that turns into customer questions: rent, buy or lease, electrify now or wait, what an idle vehicle really costs.

Belgian goods vehicle stock, Eurostat

908,169

vehicles of 3.5 tonnes or less in 2025, up from 862,840 in 2021

Eurostat, road_eqs_lormot

91,350

lorries over 3.5 tonnes in 2025

Eurostat, road_eqs_lormot

11,230

electric vans of 3.5 tonnes or less in 2025, up from 2,439 in 2021

Eurostat, road_eqs_lormot

That is where hiring gets hard. Candidates usually know either transport or consultative selling, rarely both. The ones who know both are often employed and rarely answer job ads.

What a transport salesperson has to sell

A haulier sells capacity, punctuality and a price per trip or per tonne, negotiated with the shipper’s supply chain or procurement lead. A rental or fleet management company sells a multi-year contract, discussed with the fleet manager, the CFO and procurement. Tenders are frequent, and contracts are won on promised service as much as on price. The salesperson needs to read a specification and price a bid without giving away margin, talk total cost and utilisation with a fleet manager, understand the client’s constraints (driving times, the HGV road charge, low emission zones) and prepare the renewal from year one.

This page covers transport, vehicles and mobility. Warehousing, 3PL providers and supply chain have their own page: logistics recruitment.

Roles we recruit in transport

Key account managers for large shippers or national fleets;
sales directors for a haulier or rental company, with a team to structure;
Business developers to open a segment: refrigerated, electric vans, short-term rental;
regional sales managers, managing directors of the Belgian branch of a European group, country managers.

Languages follow the client map: Dutch first in Antwerp or Ghent, French and Dutch for a national role, English for international groups. Our team is trilingual and covers Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia. If you sell vehicles rather than services, see our automotive recruitment page.

We support clients and candidates before, during and after the hire. Not out of courtesy, but by design. The first three months of a sales or management hire shape what happens for the next three years. If onboarding fails, the placement is lost, regardless of how good the sourcing was. That’s why our support doesn’t stop at contract signing. It’s also why our clients come back: they aren’t signing for a recruitment, they’re signing for a long-term partnership.
The Archetype method, since 1993

Method, timing and fees

Transport and logistics is one of the nine sectors we work in. Five steps: briefing, sourcing strategy, structured screening, detailed candidate presentation, follow-up before, during and after the hire. The briefing settles a key transport question: do you need someone who already knows your clients, or someone who can sell and will learn the trade? Every shortlisted candidate comes with a scorecard, interview transcripts and a KOAN test. Our proposal follows 48 to 72 hours after the first call.

Fees are set before the assignment starts, in a written proposal, on a retainer basis: never a success fee. 6-month replacement guarantee.

About Archetype

Archetype is a Belgian family business founded in 1993 by Marc Diamant and now co-managed with Davy Diamant and Steve Diamant. A member of Federgon, it won Talent Business Innovation of the Year 2025 for its ethical and structured use of AI.

Transport recruitment: frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to recruit a transport salesperson?

Fees are set before the assignment starts, in a written proposal, on a retainer basis: never a success fee. 6-month replacement guarantee.

How long does it take?

12 weeks on average from signing the assignment to the candidate signing. The assignment contract itself is signed 12 days after first contact on average.

Do you recruit drivers, dispatchers or planners?

No. We only recruit sales, marketing and leadership roles. For drivers and operations staff, use a temporary staffing agency or a firm specialised in those trades, or post your vacancy through Forem, VDAB or Actiris.

Does the salesperson need French and Dutch?

For a role covering Belgium, usually. For a regional role the clients’ language is often enough, plus English in an international group. Our recruitment team works in all three.

Looking for a salesperson or a leader for your transport business? One call is enough to frame the role; our proposal follows within 48 to 72 hours.

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