dave1984:
I respect all of your advice, just wish i would have asked before wasting £1500
Agencies may take you on after 6th April 2021 on PAYE, as most of the agency’s clients (if not all) will stop accepting LTD drivers.
However, as only an occasional driver, you might only be offered work during the summer holidays when lots of their regular drivers are taking time off work (hence they tend to be short of drivers at that time of year), and during the 6 weeks before Christmas (when it is traditionally busy for lorry drivers).
You might also be offered occasional short notice work at other times, but you would need to accept or the offers would soon dry up. Two refusals in a row often means no more offers.
Also, you will need to prove to the agency that you are a reliable and capable driver. They don’t want to lose clients because they sent an inexperienced driver. Agency driving is often difficult. First you won’t be experienced at that particular client, second you will often get the difficult jobs that the regular drivers don’t want to do, and third expect to be given the oldest and dirtiest lorry with the knackered gearbox.