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C+E is the licence category behind every Class 1 job, and most of the reasons a driver gets turned down are paperwork rather than driving — an expired CPC, a lapsed medical, points, or a tacho card that ran out. Here is exactly what operators check, and the work we place once it is in order.
Category C+E lets you drive an articulated lorry or a rigid with a drawbar trailer — what the industry calls Class 1. To hold it you must already have category C, pass a D4 medical, and pass the C+E test. To drive commercially you also need a valid Driver CPC, which takes 35 hours of periodic training every five years, and a digital tachograph driver card. National Driver CPC covers UK-only work; International Driver CPC is required to drive commercially into Europe. WSUK places C+E drivers across the UK at £18.00—£24.00 an hour, paid weekly through PAYE.
WSUK operates from the Midlands Golden Triangle, framed by the M1, M6, M42 and A14 and home to mega distribution parks and rail-freight interchanges including DIRFT, Magna Park, East Midlands Gateway and Prologis Park Ryton. National retailers, parcel carriers and 3PLs run round-the-clock trunking, multi-drop and store-delivery operations from these sites, with driving demand that swings sharply through the year.
That is why employers need to fill temporary driving jobs at short notice — peak retail, contract wins, sickness and holidays. WSUK supplies Class 1, Class 2 and 7.5t HGV drivers plus van and multi-drop drivers, scaling teams up and down and managing vetting, DVLA licence and CPC checks, right-to-work, PAYE payroll and tachograph and working-time compliance.
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.
From our Golden Triangle base we fill temporary driving jobs for employers UK-wide, reaching the major logistics parks — DIRFT, Magna Park, East Midlands Gateway, Fradley Park, i54 and Brackmills — via the M1, M6, M42, M69 and A14. From one shift to an ongoing run, we match vetted, licence-checked drivers to your vehicles and routes.
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.
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.
Yes. You need a D4 medical to get the entitlement, and again at renewal. Renewals become more frequent as you get older — commonly every five years from 45 and annually from 65. Certain conditions require specific assessment, so declare them rather than risk the licence.
Often yes, but it depends on the operator's insurer rather than on us. Many will accept up to six points without difficulty; some are stricter, and specific offences such as drink-driving or dangerous driving are treated very differently from speeding. Tell us upfront and we will only send you where it will clear.
Beyond our Golden Triangle base, WSUK supplies temporary HGV and van drivers to employers at the UK's major regional logistics hubs. Choose a region, then an area for local information.
Greater Manchester is the North West's main logistics hub, where the M60, M62 and M56 meet the Manchester Ship Canal, rail freight terminals at Trafford Park and Port Salford, and Manchester Airport's cargo operation.
Bristol and Severnside combine two deep-sea docks, the M4/M5 crossroads and one of the largest concentrations of big-box warehousing in the South West, from Avonmouth and Portbury to the aerospace cluster around Filton.
Stretching from London Stansted and the M11 along the A120 and A12 corridors to the ferry port at Harwich, this part of Essex and east Hertfordshire links air freight, sea freight and busy industrial estates.
Medway and north Kent line the Thames and Medway estuaries between the M25 and the Swale, combining working ports at Sheerness, Thamesport and Tilbury with M2, A2 and A249 industrial estates serving London and the South East.
The south bank of the Humber combines the UK's busiest port complex by tonnage at Grimsby and Immingham with refineries, Freeport land, food processing and steel, all tied together by the M180 and A180.
We serve employers across the UK's Golden Triangle and beyond. Choose your area for local information.
Send us your licence, CPC and medical dates and we will tell you straight away whether anything needs sorting. Reply within 2 working hours.