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Find a driving role
Employed, self-employed and owner-driver positions from companies hiring drivers — not one-off deliveries.
UK courier community
Everything you need to work, earn and grow.
Built for employed drivers, self-employed couriers and owner-drivers — not a generic job board, and not a discount catalogue.
Work smarter. Drive further. Earn better.
Why this exists
Built around the job, not the advert
Practical tools first. No invented earnings figures. No fake testimonials.
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Check if a rate stacks up
Run advertised pay through fuel, standing costs and a tax percentage you choose before you say yes.
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Register ID once
Courier Passport holds the checks. Share a status instead of sending the same licence and ID photos to every depot.
Courier Passport
Stop uploading the same ID to every location
Register once. Keep licences and certificates in Courier Passport. Courier Drivers never stores those files — we only need a status if you connect it.
Rates and workload
What a day should pay — and how many parcels to expect
Planning bands for reading a card, not a promise of take-home pay. Own-van work has to clear fuel and standing costs. A supplied van is a different deal: lower advertised pay can still be fair if the parcel load and fuel rules are clear.
You supply the van
Your own van
You carry the vehicle, hire-and-reward insurance, tyres and the day it sits in the workshop. The advertised rate has to clear that before it becomes a wage.
Same-day / ad-hoc
Planning pay band
£150–£190
advertised day-rate band, SWB
Parcels / stops to ask about
10–30
collections and drops, plus waiting
Multi-drop owner-driver
Planning pay band
£170–£220
advertised day-rate band
Parcels / stops to ask about
80–140
drops on a dense urban round
Work
Featured driving roles
Sample positions from companies looking for drivers. Individual deliveries stay off this board.
No published driving roles yet. Approved operators can post vacant positions from their dashboard.
Regions
Roles across the UK
Twelve nations and English regions. Empty tiles stay visible so you can see where coverage is thin. Driver accounts cannot post roles.
Driver tool
Earnings calculator
An example of the breakdown — not a claim about typical UK courier pay.
- Example day rate
- £160.00
- Fuel and standing costs
- taken off
- Tax percentage you enter
- estimate only
- You see
- net, net/hour, break-even
Benefits
Driver benefits directory
Sample listings only. Nothing here is a confirmed commercial partnership until the operator of Courier Drivers has a written agreement.
Advice
Latest guides
Careers
Register ID once instead of sending scans to every depot
Keep licences and identity checks in Courier Passport. Operators should ask for a status, not a WhatsApp photo.
Insurance
What insurance does a self-employed courier need?
Hire-and-reward motor cover and goods-in-transit are commonly discussed. The right policy depends on the work.
Money and rates
How to decide whether a courier rate is profitable
Use mileage, time, fuel and standing costs — the earnings calculator is built for that working.
Forum
What drivers are asking
Rights
Legal issues, treated as a tool — not a lecture
Status, contracts, unpaid invoices, tickets and insurance gaps. We flag what to check and send you to ACAS or GOV.UK. We do not give legal advice.
Status and contracts
Employed, worker or self-employed?
The label on a contract does not always match the working relationship. Control, substitution and who carries the risk all matter. Getting this wrong affects holiday pay, National Living Wage, tax and insurance.
Status and contracts
Contracts that push all the risk onto you
Some cards and framework agreements try to pass parking tickets, lost parcels, van damage and insurance excesses to the driver. Read who pays before you start.
Pay
Unpaid invoices and late pay
Self-employed couriers often wait on weekly or fortnightly invoices. UK commercial late-payment rules may apply between businesses. Employed drivers have different wage-protection routes.
Join free and keep the working day in one place.
No testimonials invented. No inflated earnings claims.