HGV class 1 driver jobs in Cheshire West and Chester

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,000 employee jobs in it across Cheshire West and Chester, 0.57% of the 176,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Cheshire West and Chester figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 1,500 warehousing and storage jobs in Cheshire West and Chester, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Cheshire West and Chester was £37,198 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 160 freight transport by road workplaces in Cheshire West and Chester at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. 140 of them, 87.5%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Cheshire West and Chester, 150 are part time, 15.8% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Cheshire West and Chester sits level with it, 13th of 24 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the Cheshire West and Chester picture: 525 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 3,025 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 11th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 1,000 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Cheshire West and Chester in that order sit Wigan at 1,500 and Bolton at 900.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 10th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 160 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Cheshire West and Chester in that order sit Rochdale at 165 and Cumberland at 155.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,000 jobs and 160 workplaces that already exist in Cheshire West and Chester, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.