Van Driver Agency in Aberdeen
Van and multi-drop drivers on a standard Category B licence, for parcel, courier and last-mile work, supplied to operators in Aberdeen and Scotland as temporary cover.
Agency cover in Aberdeen
Whisky, seafood and energy give the labour market around Aberdeen an unusual mix of experience — bonded, chilled and heavy-lift work inside the same travel-to-work area.
The freight geography around Aberdeen runs on the A90 and A96, the Port of Aberdeen with its South Harbour at Nigg Bay, the fishing ports at Peterhead and Fraserburgh and Aberdeen International Airport. Operators draw on the Peterhead and Fraserburgh harbour estates and the fish markets behind them and the employers booking temporary staff here are typically seafood processors, fish markets and chilled hauliers running south overnight.
Fish landings vary with the weather and the quota, so the chilled haulage requirement out of Peterhead and Fraserburgh is set days rather than months in advance.
We supply Aberdeen from a national operation. That means the pool is wider than any single town could offer: licence categories, shift patterns and site experience are matched to what you actually booked. The worker is fully checked before you are given a name.
Cover we provide
Category B is the easiest licence to present and the hardest competence to prove. There is no CPC, no tachograph and no qualification card to fail, so the licence record and the references are the only formal controls that exist. Points, disqualification history and a straight conversation about the work carry the entire check.
Before an agency driver takes a company van, somebody has to confirm the insurance covers them, that the licence check is current and that the walkaround defect check has been done and signed. It is a five-minute question that stops a shift dead at six in the morning if nobody asked it the night before, so it gets asked when the booking is taken.
Shift cover we run
Evening and overnight departures south on the A90 and A9, loaded off the afternoon market or the packing line.
Sortation and load-out start before dawn, with routes out by mid-morning. Grocery and evening delivery slots run through to late evening, including weekends.
The route is a data job as much as a driving one. The scan at the door, the reason code on a failed drop and the photograph on the doorstep are what the depot, the customer and the claims process all run on afterwards. A driver who drives well and scans badly generates more cost in disputed deliveries than the shift ever saved.
Checks that happen every time
Compliance you can audit — 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.
- Category B licence checked by DVLA share code and re-checked every 90 days, with points and disqualification history reviewed.
- Right to work verified from original documents.
- References taken.
- Where the client requires it, a basic DBS check.
Pay and holiday
PAYE hourly or per route as agreed on the booking, paid weekly. Where a route is priced per drop, the drop count is agreed in writing before the shift rather than adjusted afterwards. Holiday accrues under the Working Time Regulations and every assignment is PAYE.
Twelve weeks in the same role with the same hirer triggers equal treatment on pay and basic conditions under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. Most agencies notice this after the fact. We count it from shift one and flag it in advance.
Shifts on now
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.
The detail
How quickly can you cover a van and multi-drop driver shift in Aberdeen?
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 van and multi-drop driver starts work in Aberdeen?
Category B licence checked by DVLA share code and re-checked every 90 days, with points and disqualification history reviewed. Right to work verified from original documents. References taken. Where the client requires it, a basic DBS check. 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 Aberdeen?
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.
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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.