Drivers' Mate Agency in Dunfermline
Drivers' mates and second crew for two-person deliveries, installations and heavy handball, supplied to operators in Dunfermline and Scotland as temporary cover.
Why Dunfermline operators come back
Operators near Dunfermline carry a lean permanent core through the winter and buy the summer in, because the difference between the two is too large to staff permanently.
The freight geography around Dunfermline runs on the A90, A9 and M90, the Port of Dundee, the Rosyth port estate and the Forth crossings. Operators draw on the Perth estates at Inveralmond and Ruthvenfield, beside the A9 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.
Cover for Dunfermline is arranged nationally, which is what lets us match the worker to the seat rather than to the postcode. Every driver and warehouse operative is vetted against your booking before confirmation, then travels in for the shift.
The people we supply
The physical bar is genuine and the day is long. Stairs, doorways narrower than the appliance, kerbside offloads and a drop count that does not fall just because the items are heavy. Being straight about weights, access and drops before somebody accepts the shift is what prevents a walk-off before lunch.
The mate is usually the lowest-cost seat on a two-person run and the highest-cost absence. When the mate does not arrive the driver cannot go, the vehicle stays on the yard, the route is rebooked and a day of customer slots is spent apologising. Judged on what the gap costs rather than what the seat costs, it deserves the same booking discipline as the driver.
Typical shifts
Twilight and night shifts on the packing lines through the fruit and promotional seasons.
Mates work the driver's shift — typically early loading with the crew away by mid-morning and evening slots on home delivery. Weekend work is common on retail installation.
Delivering an appliance and installing it are different jobs. Taking a door off its hinges, disconnecting a supply, managing a turn on a staircase and making good afterwards is skilled work a straight delivery crew may not do. The booking has to say which it is, because a crew that arrived to deliver and is asked to install will decline and will be right to.
Our vetting standard
Same-day where the pool allows — This is the gate a worker passes before they are offered your booking. Failing any line of it stops the confirmation.
- Right to work verified from original documents.
- References taken.
- Manual handling capability confirmed against the actual work.
- Where deliveries are into private homes, a basic DBS check where the client requires one.
Rates explained
Nothing is deducted from a worker's pay for finding them work, which is a requirement on employment businesses rather than a position we took. Every assignment is PAYE, holiday shows on the payslip and the rate quoted for a shift when it is booked is the rate that shift is paid at.
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.
Current shifts
Shifts appear here once they are booked and confirmed. We would rather show you an empty board than an invented one — register your availability and we will match you against what comes in.
Frequently asked
How quickly can you cover a drivers' mate shift in Dunfermline?
We aim to confirm or decline within the hour on a same-day request, because an unanswered booking is worse for you than a no. Next-day requests are confirmed the same working day.
What do you check before a drivers' mate starts work in Dunfermline?
Right to work verified from original documents. References taken. Manual handling capability confirmed against the actual work. Where deliveries are into private homes, a basic DBS check where the client requires one. Every one of those happens before a worker is confirmed onto your booking, not after they arrive at the gate. Licence checks are re-run every 90 days rather than kept on file and assumed.
How does invoicing work for temporary staff in Dunfermline?
One weekly invoice covering every approved shift, with the assignment reference on each line. The provenance matters more than the format: you should be able to trace any figure back to a specific person on a specific day.
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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.