HGV class 1 driver jobs in Blackpool

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 75 employee jobs in it across Blackpool, 0.12% of the 63,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Blackpool figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 200 warehousing and storage jobs in Blackpool, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Blackpool was £32,553 a year in 2025, across every occupation in the area together. It is not a driving figure, and no local driving figure is published anywhere, because earnings are not broken down by occupation at this level.

UK Business Counts recorded 30 freight transport by road workplaces in Blackpool at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Blackpool, 20 are part time, 21.1% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Blackpool sits above it, 5th of 24 areas on this measure. A part-time share that size usually reflects weekend trunking and relief cover counted alongside the permanent fleet.

Two further counts round out the Blackpool picture: 70 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 345 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Blackpool ranks 24th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 75 in Blackpool. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Blackpool in that order sit Wirral at 350.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Blackpool ranks 24th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 30 in Blackpool. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Blackpool in that order sit Blackburn with Darwen at 60.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 75 jobs and 30 workplaces that already exist in Blackpool, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.