Class 2 Driver Agency in Wick

The freight serving Wick arrives along a chain of legs — trunk, transfer, ferry, local — and a gap anywhere in that chain stops the whole thing rather than slowing it.

The freight geography around Wick runs on the A9, A82, A835 and A96, Inverness Airport, the Port of Cromarty Firth at Invergordon and the ferry routes to Orkney, Shetland, Skye and the Western Isles. Operators draw on the Port of Cromarty Firth at Invergordon and the Nigg yard on the far shore and the employers booking temporary staff here are typically island and remote-area delivery operators working to ferry timetables.

Aquaculture and seafood load late for overnight runs south and the harvests at the farms are set by the fish rather than by a rota.

Ferry-timed shifts booked around a sailing, including very early departures to make the first crossing.

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.