HGV class 1 driver jobs in County Durham

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 3,000 employee jobs in it across County Durham, 1.6% of the 188,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the County Durham figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 4,000 warehousing and storage jobs in County Durham, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in County Durham was £32,945 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 285 freight transport by road workplaces in County Durham at the March 2025 reference date, 35 of them employing ten people or more. 250 of them, 87.7%, 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 County Durham, 700 are part time, 23.7% of the split. The middle across the North East is 23%, so County Durham sits level with it, 6th of 12 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 County Durham picture: 475 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 7,475 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, County Durham ranks 1st of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 850, against 3,000 in County Durham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to County Durham in that order sit Stockton-on-Tees at 2,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, County Durham ranks 1st of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 58, against 285 in County Durham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to County Durham in that order sit Northumberland at 130.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 3,000 jobs and 285 workplaces that already exist in County Durham, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.