Forklift Driver Agency in Littlehampton
Counterbalance, reach and VNA forklift drivers, with the accreditation checked before the shift, supplied to operators in Littlehampton and the South East as temporary cover.
What Littlehampton sites get from us
Littlehampton sits in a part of the country where freight timing is set by somebody else's timetable — a sailing, a shuttle departure or a customs release — and drivers are held or released accordingly. Temporary cover here has to absorb that.
The freight geography around Littlehampton runs on the M25, M3, M4, M20, M23 and M2, Gatwick Airport, the Channel ferry terminal at Dover, the shuttle terminal at Folkestone, DP World Southampton and the inland border facility at Sevington. Operators draw on the Solent estates around Southampton, Eastleigh and Fareham plus ABP Solent Gateway at Marchwood and the employers booking temporary staff here are typically retail and grocery distribution centres serving the South East and the London fringe.
Aerospace and manufacturing supply chains around the Solent and the Thames Valley run to build schedules, so line-feed and goods-in cover is wanted for the length of a programme and no longer.
Working nationally is what makes Littlehampton cover reliable. A booking here draws on the whole pool. The worker is matched to the licence category and shift the site needs, with every check complete before the confirmation reaches you.
Roles we fill
Sites usually want one person who can run counterbalance in the yard and reach inside the racking. That is two truck categories, two sets of training and two competences inside one request. A booking for a forklift driver has to be unpacked before it can be filled, because the wrong truck is not a small mismatch.
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.
Shifts and start times
Nights on trunk work between the south-coast ports and the Midlands parks, out and back inside a shift.
Warehouse forklift work runs on fixed shift blocks — usually mornings, afternoons and nights on rotation, with 4-on-4-off common on larger sites.
A new operator on a truck finds the defect that the regular operator stopped noticing months ago. The brake that is soft, the horn that does not sound, the fork with a hairline in it. A pre-use check only produces value if there is somewhere for the report to go and somebody empowered to take the truck out of service and that route needs to exist before the shift starts.
The checks we run
Cover that turns up — Checked before the shift, not after the incident. Each item below is verified at registration and the licence checks repeat on a 90-day cycle.
- Forklift certificate from an accredited body — RTITB, ITSSAR, AITT or equivalent — with the truck category checked against the work.
- Certificate currency confirmed and re-checked.
- Right to work verified from original documents.
- References taken before a first shift.
Rates and payment
PAYE hourly, paid weekly, with the truck type and any shift uplift agreed on the booking. Overtime is confirmed up front and holiday accrues under the Working Time Regulations. Where a shift needs two truck categories, that is settled in the rate before the operator starts rather than after the first day.
Workers on assignment for 12 weeks in the same role qualify for equal treatment on pay and basic conditions under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. We track that week count from the first shift and tell you before it lands, rather than after.
Open shifts
Nothing live here right now. We do not pad this board with roles that do not exist, so an empty list means an empty list — register and we will come to you when something matches.
Questions, answered
How quickly can you cover a forklift driver shift in Littlehampton?
For a standing weekly pattern, cover is arranged in advance and the question does not really arise. For ad-hoc shifts, next day is the standard and same day is best-efforts, agreed on the call.
What do you check before a forklift driver starts work in Littlehampton?
Forklift certificate from an accredited body — RTITB, ITSSAR, AITT or equivalent — with the truck category checked against the work. Certificate currency confirmed and re-checked. Right to work verified from original documents. References taken before a first shift. All of it is completed before the assignment is confirmed. A worker who fails any part of it does not get offered the shift, which occasionally means we hand a booking back.
How does invoicing work for temporary staff in Littlehampton?
Weekly, consolidated and itemised by shift. If a line is wrong you reject the timesheet with a reason before it is billed, rather than paying it and reclaiming afterwards.
Related pages
Other cover we supply in Littlehampton
Forklift cover elsewhere in South East
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.