In total honesty, get another job for a year or so and keep in touch with the agency meanwhile. Let them think your working for a ficticious company and conjure up some experience. Suddenly, when they ask for a reference, the company went bust a couple of months ago.
Always works.
^ This is always an option!
You need a bit of luck, to contact the right place at the right time. I’m 24, passed C last Feb and C+E last September. In October I went to a local agency, only two companies on their books would have me due to my age. Fortunately, one of them was running out of a distribution center that had just become operational, so they needed drivers. Both myself and a 21 year old got put on full time at the start of this year, along with a few others who were over 25/two years exp.
My brother did his C when 19, he did some vans on agency for a bit whilst looking for full time jobs and managed to get taken on by Wisemans, he’s been there over a year now.
My point is, it is possible to get a foot on the ladder, you just need to persevere and have a bit of luck. A quick google search has shown a few companies in the Guildford/Godalming/Cranleigh area but I’d guess you’ve already been through those possibilities. Don’t know if there are any big RDCs down that way as they seem more likely to take on new/young drivers than smaller firms. It could just be the odds were stacked in our favour here by being in Northants?
ive got class 1 and 2 , i had trouble getting work because of my experience, i didnt have any. im 26 which helps a little, but in the end i went to a company that has a different range of vehicles chains, tippers, hooks,etc and i basically begged them and got 2 trial days and i did well coz got offered the job. so like what has been said before you just need to beg really lol! i got it into the guys head that they needed some young blood lol. you could try your local recycling centre?
I passed my class 2 in February (the last of 4 modules), next day relocated from Lincolnshire to Carmarthenshire, South Wales. After phoning million companies (well, maybe 950 000, can’t remeber now…) I asked one of them what agency they use. Been given the number, got registered and heard “Yes, I know you are desperate, but usually they want someone with experience…”
But…
One day he was desperate; phoned me at short notice and asked if I can start at 4:15 AM to do multi drop in Cardiff. Of course I agreed, and I went, and I went following day, and following, and next two weeks. Since then the same guy gives me shifts at pallet forwarder, in the mean time another agency phoned and asked for experience, I had 10 days of it so I said “Oh, of course I have experience!”, they were chuffed and I did lots of runs with bulk delivery of milk to Bristol and multi drops to welsh Tesco’s. No problems, no damage, no points on my licence and all parties rather happy.
Recently I passed my class 1 test, the story beginns again but I’m sure it will work in exactly the same way.
Don’t ever give up, time is ticking, experience is building, even if only in your creatively written CV 
Got a phone call this morning from a Nottingham Agency.
Went at 3pm today and they snapped me up, start Class 2’s on Friday. They want me to do 6-8 months on Class 2 then try me out in Class 1’s afterwards.
So I cant grumble at that. Looking forward to it.
Harry Monk:
There’s plenty of firms in that part of the world who will send you away for a week tramping. If you only go to work once a week and come back once a week then it’s perfectly doable to go on public transport with a sleeping bag and a holdall.I would also look in Basingstoke as there’s a fair bit of industry there. You won’t find much in Guildford, there’s no manufacturing there at all to speak of.
unless I am that bad at geography since when was basingstoke near heathrow ■■ 
andrew1990:
Got a phone call this morning from a Nottingham Agency.Went at 3pm today and they snapped me up, start Class 2’s on Friday. They want me to do 6-8 months on Class 2 then try me out in Class 1’s afterwards.
So I cant grumble at that. Looking forward to it.
sometimes its the only way to go am having to do same on tankers with adr am having to go onto class 2’s for a short period of time to prove myself.
had a good first week at barrats last week. Did 44 hours.
Got paid yesterday; 222 quid. Thats wrong surely to god!? thats just over £5 an hour!?
Had a bad day at a food company. Started at 5am. spose to go peterborough but got given bloody wales instead. came across an incident and was given wrong local directions and it took my an hour and a half around towns i cant pronounce. Couldnt finish my drops because of hours.
I mean it took 2 n a half hours to get to drop 1, an hour to drop 2, an hour to the 3rd drop which then get wrong directions so 2 n a half hours. Got told to leave one drop because it was too far. so spent half hour getting to the 4th. Not including half hour/45 mins for unloading puttin goods in their storage and waiting for the customers to check goods.
Rang company up and said i was changed for some reason from peterborough. They said just come back. didnt get back to notts till ten past 8. Other agency guy who got peterborough job didnt get back till after me; had a drop for durham on it! just crazy.
Then i left my digi tacho in the machine and forgot, so rang up and transport manager had to take it out; when he started at 11pm. such a bad day yet barrats? they were imressed
As for the money - check your tax code, you may be on BR (basic rate), when they deduct your tax and NI contributions, that’s what you get into your bank account.
As for the digi card left in tacho - I am absolutely sure everyone has done it, in my case it was only a U turn when I realised, after 15 miles 
so only 30 miles extra and 45 minutes. If you work for large companies with large fleet, they won’t let you forget because there is always somebody at the office and needs to download the data from your card at the end of your shift, it must be legal requirement or something.
Now welsh names - I live in Wales, it’s a beautiful country, the names are not that difficult when you get used to them, but the funny part is when they send you to The Valleys (Pontypool, Abertillery, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil etc.) in a truck with no power sockets (no smoking, stupid, as if it could stop a smoker from smoking…) so you can’t use your satnav. I’ve done it recently, 11 drops, 14 hours shift and A4 sheet with notes to watch my driving times. And I run out of fuel. And couldn’t empty the truck; nobody was there at the depot and it was locked, haha !
Have fun, enjoy, that’s what you call getting experience
Saaamon:
Once you get the odd day even on a 7.5t you can just lie after that.Sent from my BlackBerry 9780 using Tapatalk
then have a hell of a lot of explaining to do when something goes wrong and they check and find out you were lying goodbye job and definately no good reference explain your way out of that one to any other company you apply to.