Tuffnells driver jobs: be the driver your patch knows by name.
Self-employed van work near your home: collect and deliver the big, awkward stuff for local businesses. You pick your days, we pay you every week, and every business you sign up earns you commission.
Already started? Sign up in the Tuffnells for Partners app with the same mobile number.
Your round, your regulars, your week.
You're not a number on someone else's route. You look after the postcodes around your home and the businesses in them, and the work is built around the days you choose.
The face they know
The same shops, makers and workshops see you week after week. They'll know you by name, and you'll know which door to use.
Proper bulky work
Furniture, machine parts, flat-packs and long lengths, up to 150kg and 6.5m. Work that needs a careful driver and a decent van.
Pick your days
Tell us the days and hours you want to work. Jobs are offered in the app to fit them, and you can change them whenever you like.
Paid every Friday
Every job you finish shows in your earnings straight away. We pay out every Friday, straight to your bank.
Commission on top
Bring a business on your round to Tuffnells and earn 5% of what they spend with us for 12 months, on top of your job pay.
Kit, and a wrap that pays
Your starter kit is on us. Add a Tuffnells wrap to your van if you want to, and earn 5% more on every job.
See what you could earn.
Every area is different, so we work it out from the jobs that really happen near you.
What could you earn?
Tell us where you live, what you drive and how much you'd like to work. We'll show a weekly range based on the work in your area, and whether your area needs drivers right now.
How you're paid.
Every job shows its pay before you accept it, and your starter kit is free.
A day of 16 stops, half collections (businesses usually hand over a few consignments each) and half deliveries, pays about £144. A day of 30 stops pays about £270. Mileage, extra items and two-person jobs come on top.
You're self-employed, so your van, fuel, insurance, tax and National Insurance are yours to cover.
Your rates
- Each collection
- £4
- Each delivery
- £8
- Each extra item on a job
- £1.50
- Two-person jobs
- +£15
- Mileage over 10 km on a job
- 45p a mile
- Longer runs between areas
- £1.10 a mile, £60 minimum
- Wrapped van
- +5% on every job
- Businesses you sign up
- 5% for 12 months
Your trial shift pays £90, pass or not.
Archive photo: Tuffnells lorries from the old fleet
Wear the green.
The Tuffnells name on your shirt, and on your van if you choose the wrap, tells every business on your round who you are. Look after them well and they'll ask for you.
From here to your first job.
Apply
Four details on this page, then finish in the Tuffnells for Partners app. It takes about ten minutes.
Checks
Photograph your licence, take a selfie and confirm your right to work. Checks start as soon as you submit.
Paid trial shift
Spend a day with an experienced Tuffnells driver near you, paid at £90. If nobody can take you within two weeks, you do a shorter, supervised first day on your own instead.
Kit and wrap
Your starter kit is sent to you. Book a wrap slot for your van if you'd like the extra on every job.
Go live
Connect your bank, pass a short quiz in the app and switch on. Jobs in your patch start arriving.
What you'll need.
21 or over
With a full UK driving licence that covers what you drive.
6 points or fewer
On your licence. You'll photograph it in the app.
The right to work in the UK
A UK or Irish passport, or a share code.
Your own vehicle
Anything from a small van to a Luton. A 7.5 tonne lorry or an HGV opens up the longer runs between areas too.
A smartphone
iPhone or Android, for jobs, scanning, photos and your earnings.
Insurance for the work
Hire and reward cover helps your application. Add your policy in the app when you have it.
Got a question about driving?
We approve the number of drivers each area needs, so there's enough work to go round. If your area has the drivers it needs right now, you'll join a short waitlist and we'll text you as soon as a place opens. The estimator above shows where your area stands today.
No. You're a self-employed driver partner. You choose your days, run your own van and look after your own tax and National Insurance. We pay you for every job you finish.
Every Friday, straight to your bank account, for the jobs you've finished. If what you're owed is under £20, it rolls into the next week.
You spend a paid day (£90) with an experienced Tuffnells driver in your region. They show you how we scan, photograph and handle bulky items, then tell us how it went. If it's close, you get a second trial with someone else.
No, the wrap is optional. Wrapped vans earn 5% more on every job. You book a wrap slot in the app once you're approved.
In the app you get your own referral link. When a business becomes a customer through it, you earn 5% of what they spend with us for 12 months, even if another driver ends up serving them.
Yes, whenever you like, in the app. Jobs are offered to fit the days and hours you've set.
Download Tuffnells for Partners and sign up with the same mobile number you used here. What you've already told us will be waiting.
Sending something rather than driving? Get a price for your delivery.
Your patch is waiting.
Four details to start, a paid trial shift with an experienced driver, then your own round.