Forklift Driver Agency in Swadlincote
Counterbalance, reach and VNA forklift drivers, with the accreditation checked before the shift, supplied to operators in Swadlincote and the East Midlands as temporary cover.
What Swadlincote sites get from us
Operators around Swadlincote compete for the same pool of shift-experienced warehouse staff, which is why rates here start moving earlier in peak than they do in most regions.
The freight geography around Swadlincote runs on the M1, A14, A42, A46, A50 and A5, East Midlands Airport — the UK's largest pure-freight airport — and the rail freight terminals at DIRFT and SEGRO Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway. Operators draw on Dove Valley Park at Foston and the A50 corridor between Derby and Stoke and the employers booking temporary staff here are typically express parcel and air-freight network operators running overnight sortation.
The overnight express networks based at East Midlands Airport run their whole operation in a window of a few hours, so sortation, loading and shuttle work is concentrated into nights that must be fully staffed or not run at all.
Transport Temps covers Swadlincote as a national agency. Drivers and warehouse staff are sourced against your specific booking, checked before they are confirmed and travel to your site for the shift. You get the person who fits the seat rather than whoever happened to be nearest.
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
Twilight picking from mid-afternoon into late evening, feeding the night despatch.
Warehouse forklift work runs on fixed shift blocks — usually mornings, afternoons and nights on rotation, with 4-on-4-off common on larger sites.
Most serious lift truck injuries involve somebody on foot. A new operator does not know where the pedestrian gate is, which corner is blind, where the goods-in team cut across the yard or which aisle the pickers work in the afternoon. That is a site induction and it cannot be inherited from a certificate, however good the certificate is.
The checks we run
Cover that turns up — These are the checks that decide whether someone is confirmed. They are run against originals or live sources, not against a photocopy in a file.
- 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
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.
Questions, answered
How quickly can you cover a forklift driver shift in Swadlincote?
The honest answer is that speed depends on how specific the seat is. General warehouse cover moves fastest. A specific licence category, a site passport or an unusual start time all narrow the pool and lengthen the lead time.
What do you check before a forklift driver starts work in Swadlincote?
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. Nothing is taken on trust and nothing is checked once and forgotten — licence entitlements are re-checked every 90 days for as long as a worker is on our books.
How does invoicing work for temporary staff in Swadlincote?
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 Swadlincote
Forklift cover elsewhere in East Midlands
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.