Forklift Driver Agency in Fowey

Operators near Fowey plan their permanent establishment for February and buy in everything above it, because the alternative is carrying a summer workforce through a quiet winter.

The freight geography around Fowey runs on the M5 south of Exeter, the A30, the A38 Devon Expressway, the A390 and A361, Cornwall Airport Newquay and the ports at Plymouth, Falmouth and Fowey. Operators draw on the Marsh Barton Trading Estate and Sowton Industrial Estate at Exeter and the employers booking temporary staff here are typically regional foodservice and drinks distributors supplying hospitality across the peninsula.

Hospitality across the peninsula orders more often and in smaller quantities in season, which raises the drop count and the driver requirement more than the tonnage suggests.

Early AM foodservice and drinks deliveries into hotels, pubs and holiday parks, finished before the roads fill up.

Warehouse forklift work runs on fixed shift blocks — usually mornings, afternoons and nights on rotation, with 4-on-4-off common on larger sites.

Health and Safety Executive guidance splits lift truck training into three stages: basic training, specific job training and familiarisation on the actual truck and the actual site. An accredited certificate evidences the first. The second and third happen on your site, on your trucks and inside your traffic routes. They take real time on a first shift rather than a signature.

Night and twilight blocks carry their own uplift and it is agreed as part of the booking, not negotiated on the first morning. On continental patterns the whole block is confirmed at one rate, so that a four-on-four-off rota does not produce four different figures on a single timesheet.

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.