Rigid-lorry cover for Sunderland and the North East: Class 2 drivers booked around your rounds, your tail-lifts and your delivery windows.
Store, merchant and depot rounds, covered by one driving desk.
Across the North East, rigid rounds start from sites such as the Port of Tyne and the Nissan and Washington supply-chain parks. We ask where the vehicle is based and what the drops look like before anything else.
For Sunderland operators we cover single days, full weeks and ongoing rigid assignments. Planned cover can be booked in advance.
Depots across the North East are served by the A1(M), A19 and A66, Newcastle Airport and the ports at Tyne and Teesport. Their rigids deliver to the towns in between.
Class 2 cover across the main types of rigid work.
If the gap runs longer, tell us and we plan the next days.
Holidays and seasonal rounds can be booked weeks ahead.
Urgent cover gets a straight answer on what we can confirm.
Class 2 rounds are built around customer promises: store slots, site deliveries and trade counters that open at a set time. Cover protects those promises.
Refuse and municipal rounds are Class 2 work with a public face. The brief covers the route, the crew and the safety rules for working on the street.
For a Class 2 request, include:
Where the job needs a HIAB ticket or ADR we confirm those too. The standard checks — category C, Driver CPC, tachograph card and right to work — apply to every booking.
A Class 2 driver who handles a tail-lift safely, reverses with care and deals politely with the customer is worth more than one who only drives well.
One request can cover a single day or several weeks.
Category C, which covers vehicles over 3,500kg with a trailer up to 750kg, plus a current Driver CPC and a digital tachograph card.
Planned cover is easiest with a few days' notice. Short-notice requests get a straight answer on what we can confirm.
Yes. Our permanent driver desk places Class 2 drivers onto your payroll when you want a permanent hire.
Yes. Tell us what the driver collects at each drop (signatures, returns or delivery notes) and we brief them on it.
Yes. Saturday and bank holiday rounds can be booked in the same way as weekday cover.
Other drivers in Sunderland:
Elsewhere in the North East: