Class 2 Driver Agency in Auchterarder

Around Auchterarder the ports at Dundee and Rosyth handle project and marine cargo rather than containers, which produces heavy irregular movements rather than a steady box flow.

The freight geography around Auchterarder runs on the A90, A9 and M90, the Port of Dundee, the Rosyth port estate and the Forth crossings. Operators draw on the A90 corridor sites between Dundee, Forfar and Montrose and the employers booking temporary staff here are typically offshore wind and marine operators working through Dundee and the Forth.

Contract packing runs to promotional windows agreed with the supermarkets, so a packing line can go from one shift to three for the length of a promotion.

Twilight and night shifts on the packing lines through the fruit and promotional seasons.

Early starts are the norm on Class 2 — chilled and trade counter routes often load before 05:00. Municipal and refuse rounds run early through to mid-afternoon.

A fixed round is a relationship as much as a route. The shop that takes deliveries round the back, the manager who will sign and the one who will not, the gate code, the half hour when the high street is closed to vehicles. None of that appears on the manifest and it is the whole argument for the same driver going back next week.

Class 2 rounds overrun, because the last drop is always the awkward one. A round built for one drop count and quietly grown past it finishes late and whether that time is paid at plain rate or at overtime is settled at booking. The threshold that triggers overtime is written down, so both sides count the week the same way.

Equal treatment on pay and basic conditions applies after 12 weeks in the same role under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. We hold the count per worker per role and raise it with you before the threshold rather than on the invoice that follows it.