Have been offered work with Peopleline Transport has anyone any info on this company please, the office I have been offered work with is based in Birmingham.
TIA
Sorry dude, no info, but I would suggest that the first word of their name alludes to the fact that they do very little if any of the second word of their name. An agency I reckon, and as such should be approached carefully.
Edit to add, doh, stupid man, just read the “agency” bit in your title. Sorry. 
Peopleline Recruitment are an agency with offices in Birmingham City centre, first time I have signed up for an agency and NO questions on RTA, WTD or drivers hours Highway Code etc and because I wanted to go PAYE they could not give me a pay rate, not impressed.
Perhaps these are the “people lines” spoken of…
I don’t think you’re supposed to snort them though.
a mate of mine is working on tipers via an agency based in manchester, they have never seen his licence digi or dcpc card how do people use these companies?
Don’t ask no questions - don’t get told no lies…
The bottom line, agency=scum
Why is it the bottom line, because Mike68 said so.
The trouble is, almost every hgv driver jobs advertised these days are agencies, yes there are real jobs out there but you have to get past pages full of agency ads first.
would disagree most bigger firms use agencies even for perm by doing a x amount of weeks temp to perm - this give them the chance to assess performance over a set number of weeks prior to going full time.
having seen the general lack of understanding on the basic laws on here i dont blame them too many numpties driving out there nowadays.
Isn’t it about time we realised that agencies are the SYMPTOM of “no jobs because the yard is too tightwad” rather than the CAUSE of such worker-unfriendly attitudes by the same old employers as of old?
If yards were massively and directly hiring - even now - there would be no further use for agencies, nor would they be used.
We’d all flit from one job to the next like Mr Benn. Red tape would be minimal, you go to what used to be the labour exchange (nothing like a “job centre”) take a job off the wall, attend for interview, and start pretty much straight away should you pass that interview.
The more hurdles the employer puts in front of the prospective driver - the easier it is for that driver to sign up with an agency - because he wants work this week, next, and ongoing - rather than “wait a few weeks to hear back from this application, in the meantime you’ve got zero income bud… Carry on signing on.” 
Agencies serve the flexible driver who actually wants some work each and every week - even if not necassarily wanting continuous maxed-out hours of.
Meanwhile, among the full timers, if Joe Bloggs goes sick, or is on scheduled leave at a busy time of the year - you’re not going to fill that temp vacancy quickly enough with a job centre or newspaper ad… If Joe Bloggs has just been sacked (hard though that might be nowdays) then too many firms STILL won’t “recruit a replacement all by themselves” - unless there’s actually some relative of another worker who can fill that vacancy by “word of mouth” or even as we’ve heard on here, “some speculative driver came a knocking on our door this morning, and timed it perfectly to walk straight into Blogg’s shoes!”
The rates of pay to full timers are still lousy enough that a flexible driver may well want a bit extra for the inconvinience of “last minute call out” or “stupid Oclock start time” or even “commute to some yard miles and miles away”…
No one therefore takes the full time job at £9ph, but jumps at covering it on agency for £10.75 with expensese provided as is the “mobile workers” lot…
People who tar all agencies with the same brush therefore must be of the following categories:
(1) Had 100% bad experience with the shysters that run agencies in their locale.
(2) Full time jobs are so easy to come by locally, that there was never any need for even Johnny 9 points to go very far to find themselves a new full time employer…
(3) Incumbent full timers don’t like it when the cushy overtime shift they were hoping to pick up next weekend - gets given out to agency instead for less than what the full timer would have been paid on double time, or whatever.
(4) The employer demands the agency ■■■■ their new driver about - to see if they are the type who’ll come in at a moments notice at 3am, or not badger them for more pay… Employers will let the agency cover believe the “ongoing lie” that this job “Might lead to something more” - and of course it never does. That’s the employer’s big lie - not the agency, who are essentially lickcocks to the employer - in order to keep the contract.
I suggest seeking agencies that do not specialise in “exclusive driver providing rights” to any particular yard. Avoid ADR agency for example!
Agencies that do not supply “indoor people” will also result in more, regular, and reasonably houred work as well.