HGV and warehouse staff in Birmingham
Birmingham’s freight runs on the M6 at Spaghetti Junction, the M5, the M42 and the M6 Toll, in and around a Class D Clean Air Zone. We supply Class 1, Class 2 and van drivers and warehouse staff here.
Pin: Birmingham. Square: the Nalon office in Cleckheaton.
Birmingham is the middle of the motorway network. Spaghetti Junction is the Gravelly Hill Interchange, junction 6 of the M6, where the M6 meets the A38(M) Aston Expressway. It also gives access to the A38 Tyburn Road and the A5127 Lichfield Road. The M5 starts at M6 junction 8 at West Bromwich, north-west of the city, and runs south-west to Exeter. National Highways describes M6 junctions 4 to 10a as a dynamic hard shoulder motorway section.
Birmingham has a Class D Clean Air Zone, according to GOV.UK’s table of cities with clean air zones. In a Class D zone charges can apply to heavy goods vehicles, vans, buses, coaches, taxis and cars. GOV.UK gives Euro VI as the minimum standard for heavy goods vehicles, and a vehicle that meets it avoids the charge. Clean air zones operate 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and the charge period runs from midnight to midnight.
The M6 Toll joins the M6 at junction 3a and meets it again at junction 11a. Its price classes depend on wheels, axles and height at the first axle. A vehicle with more than 2 and up to 6 axles and a height of 1.3 m or over at the first axle is Class 5, and one with more than 6 axles is Class 6.
Roads and junctions around Birmingham
These are the motorways and trunk roads around Birmingham, with the junction numbers as they are signed.
- M6
- Junctions 4 to 10a Junction 6 is Gravelly Hill, Spaghetti Junction. Junction 8 is where the M5 starts. Junction 10 connects to the A454 Black Country Route and Wolverhampton Road. National Highways describes junctions 4 to 10a as a dynamic hard shoulder motorway section.
- A38(M)
- Aston Expressway Connects the M6 at junction 6 to Aston and central Birmingham, and is part of the longer A38 route.
- M5
- From M6 junction 8 Starts at West Bromwich, north-west of Birmingham, and runs south-west to Exeter in Devon.
- M42
- Junctions 5a, 6 and 10 The newer junction 5a, with a link road to Clock Interchange roundabout, gives direct access from the M42 to Birmingham Airport and Birmingham Business Park. Junction 10 serves Birch Coppice Business Park.
- M6 Toll
- Junctions 3a to 11a A toll road that connects the M6 at junction 3a to junction 11a of the M6. Price classes are set by wheels, axles and height at the first axle.
Freight and work near Birmingham
These are freight places in and around Birmingham, taken from public sources. We do not name tenants.
Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal
Edison Road, Coleshill
ABP’s terminal, next to the Nuneaton to Birmingham railway line. Coventry City Council lists it among the area’s rail freight terminals, with connections to ports including Southampton and Felixstowe and to the Channel Tunnel.
Hams Hall Distribution Park
Near Lea Marston, North Warwickshire
Has road access by the M42 and rail access through the Hams Hall terminal.
Birch Coppice Business Park
Dordon, Tamworth, at M42 junction 10
In North Warwickshire at junction 10 of the M42, according to the park’s own website. Coventry City Council places the Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal at Birch Coppice.
Freightliner, Landor Street
Landor Street, Birmingham
Freightliner lists a Birmingham terminal at Landor Street with rail and road access.
Minworth
Sutton Coldfield
An industry and distribution area that has grown because of its nearness to the M42, the M6 and the M6 Toll.
What we staff around Birmingham
Around Birmingham we staff Class 1 drivers for trunking and container work from the rail terminals, Class 2 and van drivers for multi-drop rounds across the West Midlands, and forklift, reach truck and warehouse staff for the distribution parks. Shifts run days, nights, tramping and weekends.
Tell us the site, the start time and the vehicle when you book. The Clean Air Zone charges some vehicles, so tell us which one the booking uses. If you are a driver, tell us which side of the city you live on, because the motorway you start from decides the run.
Towns covered from Birmingham
We supply drivers and staff to Birmingham and the towns of the West Midlands around it. This is the area we cover from this page.
- Birmingham
- Solihull
- Sutton Coldfield
- Walsall
- West Bromwich
- Wolverhampton
- Dudley
- Smethwick
- Oldbury
- Tamworth
- Coleshill
- Castle Bromwich
- Erdington
- Aston
- Witton
- Minworth
- Tyseley
- Halesowen
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Questions about driver work in Birmingham
- Do lorries have to pay to drive in Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone?
Some do. The zone is Class D, and Class D charges can apply to heavy goods vehicles. GOV.UK gives Euro VI as the minimum standard for heavy goods vehicles, and a vehicle that meets the standard avoids the charge. Clean air zones operate every day of the year, 24 hours a day.
- Which M6 junction is Spaghetti Junction?
Junction 6. Spaghetti Junction is the Gravelly Hill Interchange, where the M6 meets the A38(M) Aston Expressway. It also gives access to the A38 Tyburn Road and the A5127 Lichfield Road.
- How are lorries classed on the M6 Toll?
By wheels, axles and height at the first axle. A vehicle with more than 2 and up to 6 axles is Class 5, and one with more than 6 axles is Class 6, each with a height of 1.3 m or over at the first axle. The M6 Toll joins the M6 at junction 3a and junction 11a.
Book cover in Birmingham
Give us the site in or around Birmingham, the vehicle, the licence category, the start time and the shift length. We come back on who can cover it.