HGV and warehouse staff in Sheffield
Sheffield has a charging Clean Air Zone that covers HGVs, the M1 running past its eastern edge and an industrial Lower Don Valley. We supply Class 1, Class 2 and van drivers and warehouse staff here.
Pin: Sheffield. Square: the Nalon office in Cleckheaton.
Sheffield’s freight runs through two places: the M1 to the east, and the Lower Don Valley, the mainly industrial north-east quarter of the city, which takes in Attercliffe, Brightside, Darnall, Tinsley and Wincobank. M1 junctions 31 to 36 serve the city and Rotherham between them, and Sheffield Parkway, the A630, links the city with M1 junction 33 at Catcliffe.
Sheffield is one of the places GOV.UK lists with a charging Clean Air Zone. It is a Class C zone, and Class C covers heavy goods vehicles, vans and minibuses as well as buses, coaches and taxis. A heavy goods vehicle that does not meet the zone standard is charged. Cars and lower-polluting vehicles are not. Whether a vehicle pays depends on its emissions standard, so the operator’s vehicle matters as much as the driver.
Rotherham’s Advanced Manufacturing Park sits at junction 33, and the former Tinsley Marshalling Yard lies about a mile north of that junction, west of the M1, with intermodal road-rail terminals built on parts of the site. Between them they bring manufacturing deliveries and container work to the same stretch of motorway.
Roads and junctions around Sheffield
These roads and junctions carry most lorry traffic into and out of Sheffield.
- M1
- Junctions 31 to 36 Junction 31 joins the A57 towards Worksop. Junction 32 is where the M18 starts, signed for Doncaster and Hull. Junction 33 is Catcliffe, for Sheffield Parkway. Junction 34 is Meadowhall. Junction 35 joins the A629 for Rotherham, and junction 35A joins the A616, the Stocksbridge bypass. Junction 36 joins the A61 for Barnsley.
- A630
- Sheffield Parkway A dual carriageway that runs between Sheffield and the M1 at junction 33.
- A6178
- From M1 junction 34 Leaves the M1 at Meadowhall towards Sheffield and Rotherham, and meets the M1 at Tinsley Roundabout.
- A61
- From M1 junction 36 Runs from Barnsley into Sheffield through Grenoside and Hillsborough as Penistone Road.
- A616
- M1 junction 35A The Stocksbridge bypass, which heads for the Woodhead Pass and Manchester.
Freight and work near Sheffield
These are places in and around Sheffield that generate lorry and warehouse work, taken from public sources. We do not name tenants.
Lower Don Valley
North-east Sheffield
The mainly industrial quarter of the city, covering Attercliffe, Brightside, Darnall, Tinsley and Wincobank. Industrial work here brings goods-in, yard and multi-drop shifts.
Advanced Manufacturing Park
Waverley, Rotherham, at M1 junction 33
A manufacturing and technology site. Its technology centre gives its location as junction 33 of the M1, the Sheffield Parkway junction.
Former Tinsley Marshalling Yard
West of the M1, about a mile north of junction 33
An intermodal road-rail freight terminal was built on part of the site, and another intermodal terminal opened on the former yard site in 2021. Intermodal sites bring container haulage and yard shunting.
What we staff around Sheffield
Around Sheffield we staff Class 1 and Class 2 drivers for manufacturing deliveries, container and intermodal work and multi-drop rounds, van drivers for the city, and forklift, reach truck and warehouse staff for the distribution units near the M1. Because the Clean Air Zone charges some vehicles, tell us which vehicle the booking uses.
Nights and weekends suit the industrial sites of the Lower Don Valley as much as the M1 corridor. Tell us the shift pattern, and if you are a driver, which side of the city you live on, because the M1 junction you start from decides your route.
Towns covered from Sheffield
We supply drivers and staff to Sheffield and the towns around it. This is the area we cover from this page.
- Sheffield
- Rotherham
- Barnsley
- Chesterfield
- Dronfield
- Stocksbridge
- Mexborough
- Wath upon Dearne
- Maltby
- Killamarsh
- Mosborough
- Swinton
- Wombwell
- Penistone
- Worksop
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Questions about driver work in Sheffield
- Do HGVs have to pay to enter Sheffield’s Clean Air Zone?
Some do. Sheffield has a Class C charging zone, and Class C covers heavy goods vehicles. A heavy goods vehicle that does not meet the zone standard is charged, and one that meets it is not. Ask the operator which standard the vehicle meets before you book it into the city.
- Which M1 junction do I use for Sheffield and the Advanced Manufacturing Park?
Junction 33. It joins the A630 Sheffield Parkway, which runs between the M1 and Sheffield, and the AMP Technology Centre gives its location as junction 33 of the M1.
- Which M1 junction is nearest Meadowhall and the Lower Don Valley?
Junction 34 is the Meadowhall junction. The Lower Don Valley is the mainly industrial north-east quarter of Sheffield and includes Tinsley.
Book cover in Sheffield
Give us the site in or around Sheffield, the vehicle, the licence category, the start time and the shift length. We come back on who can cover it.