A new agency, run by an operator
Behind Transport Temps is a courier company that runs its own vehicles and its own drivers. The people deciding whether your shift is covered have stood on the operator’s side of the same problem.
What stands behind it
Transport Temps is built by people who run transport for a living. That is the difference worth knowing about: the standards on this site are the ones an operator already applies to its own vehicles and its own drivers, not a set written for a brochure.
What is true is this: Transport Temps is a trading name of Maine Couriers Ltd, company number 10970780, registered at Office 1, Izabella House, 24-26 Regent Place, Birmingham B1 3NJ. Maine Couriers runs its own courier fleet. It books its own work, dispatches its own vehicles, runs its own compliance and pays its own drivers.
That is the credibility behind this brand. The person deciding whether your shift is covered has stood on the operator's side of the same problem, which is why the compliance gate is where the effort goes.
The problem we recognised from the other side
Running a fleet teaches you two things about agency labour. The first is that the failure is almost never the individual worker — it is the shortfall on the morning and the agency that confirmed a booking it could not fill. The second is that the paperwork is worse than the labour: a stack of paper timesheets, four invoices for four bookings and a query nobody can resolve because nothing ties an hour to an approval.
So the two things this business is built around are unglamorous and deliberate. Say no to a booking we cannot cover, early enough that you can do something about it. And log every hour against a booking reference, get it approved by you and put the whole week on one invoice where every line can be traced back to the approval you gave.
An employment business, nationally
Transport Temps is an employment business: it supplies temporary workers who remain engaged and paid by us and work under the hirer's direction. It is not an employment agency making permanent introductions and it is not a haulage subcontractor supplying vehicles.
It operates nationally rather than through branches. The Birmingham address on this site is Maine Couriers Ltd's registered office and nothing more. There is no high-street office anywhere in the country. Where a location page on this site names a town it is describing where we supply into, not where we sit.
Permanent roles are not our work and we do not dress them up as ours. They go to Freight Talent, the permanent-only sister brand. Both are trading names of the same company, Maine Couriers Ltd.
Workers are sourced against your specific booking rather than pulled from a standing list, then checked and confirmed to you by name before the shift. Matching the person to the seat is what makes cover actually hold. Where we cannot cover a shift we say so rather than confirming it and failing you on the morning.
The things worth measuring
- Whether a booking we confirmed was actually filled and whether a booking we could not fill was declined early enough to be useful.
- Whether the worker who arrived was the worker who was named to you, with the checks already done.
- Whether the timesheet matched the hours and whether the invoice matched the timesheet.
- Whether the twelve-week parity threshold was flagged before it landed rather than after.
- Whether we told you plainly when the answer was no.
None of those are things a new business can prove on a web page. They are things it can be held to from the first booking, which is the only version of this that is worth anything.
Questions about the business
What stands behind Transport Temps?
It is a trading name of Maine Couriers Ltd, company number 10970780 — a courier operator that runs its own fleet, dispatches its own vehicles, runs its own compliance and pays its own drivers. The agency applies those same operating standards to temporary supply.
What standards does Transport Temps work to?
Licence entitlement, Driver CPC, tachograph cards and right to work are verified before anyone is confirmed to a booking. Hours run through a digital timesheet you approve or reject with a reason. Approved hours bill on one consolidated weekly invoice.
Who is behind it?
Maine Couriers Ltd, company number 10970780, registered at Office 1, Izabella House, 24-26 Regent Place, Birmingham B1 3NJ. Transport Temps is a trading name of that company, not a separate legal entity.
Do you have offices around the country?
No. Transport Temps operates nationally, not through branches. The Birmingham address is Maine Couriers Ltd's registered office. Where a page on this site names a town, it describes where we supply into.
Are you the same as Freight Talent?
Same company, different job. Freight Talent places permanent roles. Transport Temps supplies temporary and agency cover. Enquiries that belong to the other one get referred rather than kept.
Tell us who you need
Give us the class, the count, the dates and the shift. We confirm what we can cover and say plainly when we cannot.