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Most C+E drivers around Birmingham who cannot start next week are held up by paperwork rather than driving — a lapsed CPC, an out-of-date tacho card or a medical due. We check all of it at registration, then place you.
C+E driver jobs around Birmingham are Class 1 roles on artics and drawbars. You need category C+E, a valid Driver CPC (35 hours of periodic training every five years), a digital tachograph card and a current D4 medical. Rates near Birmingham typically run £18.00—£24.00 an hour, more on night trunk. WSUK checks your documents at registration, pays weekly through PAYE, and never charges you anything.
Birmingham sits at the centre of Britain's motorway network, where the M6, M5, M42 and M40 converge and the A38(M) Aston Expressway feeds the city core. Industrial and distribution activity spreads across Tyseley, Witton, Erdington, Aston and Nechells, out to Jaguar Land Rover and the manufacturing supply chains around Solihull, Castle Bromwich and the wider Black Country in Walsall and Wolverhampton. Spaghetti Junction (M6 J6) alone channels enormous trunking traffic toward the Golden Triangle hubs at Hams Hall, Birch Coppice and DIRFT. The city's mix of automotive plants, food and drink manufacturers, national retail distribution and a dense last-mile parcel network means transport operators of every size run around the clock, generating constant demand for drivers across all licence categories.
With this scale of activity, Birmingham transport managers regularly face gaps — sickness, holidays, contract ramp-ups and peak retail seasons all outpace a fixed driver roster. WSUK fills temporary driving jobs with Class 1 (C+E) drivers for trunking and container work, Class 2 (C) drivers for rigid distribution and store deliveries, 7.5-tonne (C1) drivers, and van and multi-drop drivers for last-mile rounds across the B postcodes. Every driver clears DVLA licence checks, CPC verification and right-to-work before starting, and we run PAYE payroll with tacho and working-time compliance built in. From single-shift cover to large seasonal teams, we scale driver supply to your operation.
Before you get near a cab, an operator checks four things. Getting these straight is usually the difference between starting next week and waiting a month.
C+E on the photocard, checked against a DVLA licence check code. Points, disqualifications and any restriction codes get looked at, and some insurers cap total points.
A valid Driver Qualification Card, backed by 35 hours of periodic training every five years, plus an in-date digital tachograph driver card. Both are hard stops if they have expired.
A D4 medical is required for the licence and again at renewal, more often past 45. Operators also ask how long you have held C+E, because insurers price new passes differently.
WSUK supplies temporary HGV and van drivers across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands, from Tyseley, Witton and Erdington to Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Feeding the M6, M5 and M42, we cover automotive plants, food producers, RDCs and parcel depots, matching driver classes and shift patterns to each operator's routes, delivery windows and compliance needs.
The route is a car licence first, then a provisional C entitlement with a D4 medical, the category C test, and then the C+E test. Since 2021 there has also been a route that lets some candidates test for C+E without holding C for long, though not every training provider or insurer treats it the same way. Keeping it is the part people lose: 35 hours of CPC every five years, a tacho card renewed every five, and a medical at renewal. Tell us your dates and we will flag anything before it stops you working.
Indicative PAYE rates as a guide — actual pay varies by shift, experience and site, with premiums for nights, weekends and bank holidays. Every rate we advertise is at or above the National Living Wage.
| Role | Indicative pay |
|---|---|
| C+E Driver (days) | £18.00–£22.00 / hr |
| C+E Driver (nights) | £19.00–£26.00 / hr |
| C+E Tramping (plus nights out) | £18.00–£23.00 / hr |
| C+E with ADR | £19.00–£25.00 / hr |
| C+E Yard Shunter | £17.00–£20.00 / hr |
This page is for drivers sorting the paperwork as much as the work — new passes, returners whose CPC has lapsed, and drivers who want their documents checked before they apply.
We check your documents properly at registration, so you find out about a problem from us rather than from an operator turning you away.
From application to your first shift, with the checks and the payroll handled for you.
Tell us your licence, tickets and which shifts you can actually work.
A named consultant calls within 2 working hours to talk through what fits.
Right-to-work, references and the site induction handled before you start.
Start on shift, then paid weekly through PAYE with holiday accrued.
Most areas have several options — some GP surgeries, private driver-medical clinics and a number of national providers that run booked sessions locally. Around Birmingham it is usually possible to get one within a week or two. We will tell you what drivers we place near Birmingham are currently using.
Not until you have completed the 35 hours, because commercial driving over 3.5 tonnes requires a valid CPC. The hours can be done in five seven-hour blocks and providers near Birmingham run them regularly, including DVSA-approved live online courses. Tell us your position and we will line work up for when you are valid.
An articulated lorry, or a rigid vehicle with a drawbar trailer — in other words a Class 1 vehicle. You must hold category C before you can hold C+E, and for commercial driving you also need a Driver CPC and a digital tachograph card.
Yes. C+E is the formal licence category; Class 1 is the industry name for the same thing. A job advertised for a C+E driver and one advertised for a Class 1 driver want identical entitlement.
You need 35 hours of approved periodic training every five years, taken in blocks of at least seven hours. National Driver CPC covers driving within the UK only; if you drive commercially into Europe you need International Driver CPC. Let your CPC lapse and you cannot drive commercially until you have completed the hours.
WSUK serves employers across the Golden Triangle. Explore our other locations.
Send us your licence, CPC and medical dates. We will tell you what needs sorting and what is live around Birmingham, within 2 working hours.